Miha Lapornik (born 18 October 1993) is a Slovenian professional
basketball player who plays for
San Pablo Burgos
Club Baloncesto San Pablo Burgos, S.A.D., previously known as Club Baloncesto Miraflores and also known as Hereda San Pablo Burgos by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Burgos, Spain and plays in the Coliseum Burgos. ...
of the
LEB Oro. He is a tall
shooting guard
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.
Professional career
Lapornik started playing professional basketball for
Zlatorog Laško
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.
On 27 July 2015, Lapornik signed a three-year contract with
Union Olimpija
Košarkarski klub Olimpija ( en, Olimpija Basketball Club) was a men's professional basketball club based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Olimpija has won 23 National League championships, including eight consecutive titles between 1992 and 1999. They ...
.
In July 2016, he parted ways with Union Olimpija and signed a one-year contract with an option to extend it for one more year with Spanish team
Bilbao Basket .
In October 2017, he signed an open contract with Zlatorog Laško.
In January 2018, Lapornik signed with
U-Banca Transilvania Cluj-Napoca out of Romania.
On 26 June 2018, he signed a contract with Petrol Olimpija.
He spent the 2019–20 season with
Pieno žvaigždės in Lithuania, averaging 13.3 points per game.
On 25 July 2020, Lapornik signed with
Heroes Den Bosch
Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The club plays in the BNXT League since 2021 and in the top basketball division in the Netherlands since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club had several spons ...
until 2022. He was named to the
All-DBL Team
The Dutch Basketball League (DBL) All-Star Team, also known as All-DBL Team, is a team constituted by the main players in a season of the Dutch Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. This team is based on ...
for the 2021–22 season.
On 5 July 2021, Heroes announced Lapornik had signed with
DEAC in Hungary. He was offered a better contract, allowing him to leave early out of his contract.
After a brief spell with Zlatorog in January 2022, where he stayed for only nine days and played one match, Lapornik joined the
ABA League team
Krka on 14 January 2022.
In summer 2022, he signed with
Patrioti Levice of the
Slovak Basketball League
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.
International career
Lapornik made his debut for the
Slovenian national team on 31 August 2016, in the
EuroBasket 2017 qualification game against
Kosovo.
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References
External links
Union Olimpija profile
Eurobasket.com profile
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1993 births
Living people
ABA League players
BC Pieno žvaigždės players
Bilbao Basket players
BK Patrioti Levice players
CB Miraflores players
Dutch Basketball League players
Heroes Den Bosch players
KK Krka players
KK Olimpija players
KK Zlatorog Laško players
Liga ACB players
Shooting guards
Slovenian expatriate basketball people in Lithuania
Slovenian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Slovenian men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Celje
U-BT Cluj-Napoca players