Mladen Erjavec (born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian former professional basketball player, and now a

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. Erjavec played on the

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position for

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, Croatian, Bosnian-Herzegovinian,

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and

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clubs. As an assistant coach with the

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he participated in the

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, 2010 World Championship, 2011 European Championship and 2013 European Championship. In July 2014 he became the coach of KK Jolly JBŠ but was replaced before the start of the season due to poor results in pre-season matches.

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