Filip Bundović (born February 16, 1994) is a Croatian professional

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player currently playing for

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in the Croatian League and the

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. Standing at 2.02 m, he plays at the

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position.

Youth career

Bundović played for the youth selections for his hometown club

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. He first came to attention of the national sports media in 2012 after Cedevita defeated the much favourized

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in the finals of the Croatian junior basketball league. Zagreb's team included Dominik Mavra and future

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and

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, but the Finals MVP award went to Bundović.

Professional career

He signed his first professional contract with

, but spent most of his four-year contract playing for the

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and Second division Mladost. In the fall of 2015, for the first time he went abroad by signing for the German League Mitteldeutscher for whom he played ten matches in which he scored 5.7 points with 2.2 rebounds on average. The second half of the season he spent playing for Estudiantes B. In the

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he played 13 games and averaged 14.1 points and 5.8 rebounds. In 2017 he returned to his youth club

where he played for the B team in the Croatian League. In 14 played games he made 13.7 points and 4.7 rebounds in average. In March 2017 he signed for

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for the rest of the season. In the Bosnian League he averaged only 3.4 points. Bundović started the 2017–18 season in

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. Until his departure from Šibenik in the 15 games he played in the Croatian League he made 11.6 points and 4.5 rebounds in an average 16 minutes spent on court. In March 2018 he left Šibenik. The rest of the season he spent in Z-Mobile Prishtina of the

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. In Prishtina he achieved his most impressive stats: 20.8 ppg and 8.3 rpg. In September 2018 Bundović signed for Bandirma Kirmizi of the

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(second tier). After playing only one game for the Turkish side he moved back to home city, this time to

. In July 2019, Bundović extended his contract with Cibona for another two years. In February 2021, Bundović left Cibona and joined Rabotnički of the

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and

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. In September, 2021, Bundović returned to the Croatian League signing a two-month contract with Cedevita Junior. After spending a season in Cedevita Junior, in September 2022, he returned to

. Bundović suffered a shoulder injury in March, 2023 and did not play for Cibona until the end of the 2023–24 season. After spending half of the 2023–24 season without a contract, in January 2024 Bundović signed with Cibona again.

National team career

Bundović played for the Croatian national team youth selections. He played for the Croatia national under-16 basketball team at the

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where his team won the gold medal. He was the team's leader in scoring and rebounds second to

only. He missed the

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where Croatia won gold again because of an injury. He later played at the

2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship The 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Latvian: 2011. gada FIBA pasaules čempionāts līdz 19 gadu vecumam) was the 10th edition of the FIBA U19 World Championship, the biennial international men's youth basketball championship contested b ...

and 2014

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, winning the 8th and 4th place respectively. Bundović debuted for the Croatian A team in November 2021 at the

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game against

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. He was the top scorer for Croatia at that game.

References

External links

ABA League Profile

eurobasket.com Profile

EuroCup Profile

FIBA Profile (archive)

realGM Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bundovic, Filip 1994 births Living people ABA League players Croatian expatriate basketball people in Kosovo Croatian expatriate basketball people in Spain Croatian expatriate basketball people in Turkey Croatian men's basketball players GKK Šibenik players KB Prishtina players KK Cedevita players KK Cibona players KK Zabok players Mitteldeutscher BC players Power forwards Basketball players from Zagreb KK Rabotnički players KK Cedevita Junior players 21st-century Croatian sportsmen