Nenad Krstić ( sr-cyr, Ненад Крстић, born July 25, 1983) is a Serbian
basketball
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executive and former professional player. He currently serves as the vice president of the
Basketball Federation of Serbia
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, in charge of the men's basketball.
Krstić represented and
captained the
Serbian national basketball team
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internationally. Standing at 2.12 m (7 ft 0 in), he played the
center
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position. Krstić was an
NBA All-Rookie Second Team
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member in
2005
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and a two-time
All-Euroleague First Team
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selection in
2012
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and
2013
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.
Professional career
Partizan Belgrade
His first professional team was
Partizan Belgrade
Jugoslovensko sportsko društvo Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Југословенско спортско друштво Партизан, lit=Yugoslav Sports Society Partizan), commonly abbreviated as JSD Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, ЈСД Партизан, link ...
where he spent four seasons, making his debut in 2000–01. In the 2003–04 season, his last with Partizan, he averaged 13.4 points per game in the
Euroleague. With Partizan, he also won three
YUBA League
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championships in a row, and one
Serbian Cup
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From 2006 to 2010, the competition was known as the Lav Cup ...
championship in the 2001–02 season.
On June 26, 2002, he was drafted with the 24th overall pick in the
2002 NBA draft by the
New Jersey Nets
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. However, he didn't join the Nets for two seasons, continuing to play with Partizan Belgrade.
New Jersey Nets
During the
2004–05 NBA season
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, Krstić logged an impressive rookie campaign for the New Jersey Nets, averaging 10.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 0.84 blocked shots per game.
He was honored as part of the All-Rookie NBA second team.
In his debut in the
playoffs
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against the
Miami Heat
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, Krstić averaged 18.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 1.0 assists per game;
an exceptional performance for a rookie in the playoffs. This followed a greater trend where Krstić had consistently improved at a great pace as his rookie season progressed. He has a wide skill set for a big man, including refined post moves and a fantastic shooting touch from eighteen feet.
Throughout the
2005–06 season, Krstić's play had continued to rapidly improve. Three quarters of the way through the season, he averaged 13.4 points and 6.1 rebounds, and had become an integral part of the Nets offense. In the first round of the 2006 NBA playoffs against Indiana he averaged 18 points per game along with 7.1 rebounds.
In
2006–07 despite the rough Nets start, Nenad Krstić was averaging career highs in points (16.6), rebounds (6.8), and assists (1.8)
before falling to the ground after tearing his
anterior cruciate ligament
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in his left knee versus the
L.A. Lakers
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at
Continental Airlines Arena
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on December 22, 2006. His surgery was successful. Krstić was out for the rest of the
2006–07 NBA season
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Notable occurrences
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, but returned ahead of schedule to start the
2007–08 NBA season.
His 2007–08 season was a disappointment, as his injury disrupted his play and confidence on the court and he was largely a liability. Krstić later stated in his blog that he felt he let the team down, and vowed to return to his old form at the start of the 08–09 season.
Triumph Lyubertsy
During the 2008 summer off-season, Krstić entered negotiations with the
Russian Super League
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team
Triumph Lyubertsy
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and eventually signed a 2-year contract (with the
NBA
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an opt-out option) worth
€
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6 million euros
net income
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with them on July 29, 2008. He averaged 10.4 points and 5.1 rebounds per game in seven games in the Russian Super League
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and 13.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in 6 games in the EuroChallenge
FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...
.
Oklahoma City Thunder
On December 19, 2008, two NBA league sources told ESPN.com that the Oklahoma City Thunder
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had agreed in principle to sign Krstić to a three-year offer sheet. On December 22, Krstić officially signed the offer sheet. The New Jersey Nets had seven days to match the offer, or Krstić would be free to join the Thunder. The Nets declined to match, and the Thunder waived Steven Hill
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to make room for Krstić.
He played for the first time in a Thunder uniform on January 7, 2009, versus the Minnesota Timberwolves
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, scoring six points and blocking 2 shots in 16 minutes.
Boston Celtics
On February 24, 2011, Krstić was traded along with Jeff Green and a 2012 first round pick to the Boston Celtics
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for Kendrick Perkins
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and Nate Robinson
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. In his first game as a Celtic, he recorded 9 points and 6 rebounds in a win against the Los Angeles Clippers
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on February 26.
Krstić's final NBA game was on May 11th, 2011 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Miami Heat
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. Boston would lose that game 87 - 97 (thus losing the series to Miami 4 - 1) with Krstić recording 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 blocks.
CSKA Moscow
On June 22, 2011, Krstić signed a two-year contract with the Russian powerhouse CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was a central piece ...
. Over the season
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, he averaged 14.2 points and 5.4 rebounds in 24.5 minutes per game in the Euroleague. That earned him his first selection for the All-Euroleague First Team
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. In the Euroleague Final
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Title holders
* ......1958 Rīgas ASK
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against Olympiacos
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, CSKA Moscow lost by 61-62 after Georgios Printezis
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's buzzer beater
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in the last seconds of the game, securing his team second Euroleague championship in history.
After a good season with CSKA Moscow, there were rumors that he was considering a return to the Boston Celtics
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. However, on July 10, 2012, Krstić signed a new two-year contract with CSKA Moscow, including a team's option to extend him for one more season. At the end of the 2012–13 Euroleague
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season, Krstić was included for the second-straight time in the All-Euroleague First Team.
;2013–14 season
After slow start at the beginning of the 2013–2014 season, caused by some private problems he was having outside basketball, by the time he was improving his performances. In December 2013 it was revealed that he is a candidate for FIBA Europe Player of the Year
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. Eventually, Tony Parker
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would go for the second straight award. In loss to his former club Partizan Belgrade
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, he played his best game of the season by scoring 27 points and grabbing 7 rebounds. He was named Euroleague MVP for month January, averaging fifth-highest 16.4 points, 6 rebounds and 21.6 in PIR. After beating Panathinaikos
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in the playoff series, CSKA Moscow lost in the semifinal of the Euroleague Final Four
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to Maccabi Tel Aviv
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. Shortly after failing to win the Euroleague for third straight year, the president of CSKA blamed Krstić and his Serbian teammate Miloš Teodosić
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for not putting enough effort over the season. Krstić finished his third Euroleague season with CSKA Moscow with the lowest averages of 9.6 points and 3.2 rebounds over 29 games. Shortly after the Final 4, CSKA was facing elimination in the VTB United League
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from Lokomotiv Kuban
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, travelling by 2-0 without home advantage. Krstić helped CSKA eventually win the series after big comeback and advance to semifinals, answering to previous critics of the club's president. Eventually, CSKA won the VTB United League by sweeping Nizhny Novgorod
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3–0 in the final series.
In the late June, CSKA Moscow used option in his contract to part ways and allow him to sign with another team. In July 2014, weeks after signing with Anadolu Efes, he had an interview for '' Večernje novosti''. He stated that Ettore Messina
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, former coach of CSKA Moscow, was "killing him as a player", putting him to play at unnatural to him power forward
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position, which affected on his performances over the last two seasons with the club.
Anadolu Efes
On June 26, 2014, Krstić signed a two-year contract with the Turkish team Anadolu Efes
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. He came in the club just after Dušan Ivković
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was appointed as new head coach, with whom he worked in the national team for many years.
;2014–15 season
On November 2, 2014, he fractured his left forearm, after flagrant foul
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by Mutlu Demir, in a game against Pınar Karşıyaka
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and was estimated to return in 6 to 8 weeks. He returned on the court on December 24, in a game against Darüşşafaka Doğuş Darüşşafaka, meaning "home of compassion" in Ottoman Turkish, may refer to:
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and scored 2 points.
As the season was reaching to an end, Anadolu Efes cemented second position of the regular season in the Turkish League
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. However, they were stopped in the Euroleague after the quarter-final
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series 1–3 loss to the eventual champion Real Madrid
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.
On June 14, 2015, in a Game 3 of the Turkish League final series against Pınar Karşıyaka
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* Pına ...
, he tore ACL on his right knee. The injury will keep him off-the-court for estimated 6 months.
Over the season, he averaged 12.4 points and 5.2 rebounds in 27 games played of the Turkish League. He also played in 19 Euroleague games, where he averaged 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and a career-high 1.4 assists per game.
Galatasaray Odeabank
On June 30, 2016, Krstić signed with Turkish club Galatasaray Odeabank for the 2016–17 season. On September 9, 2016, he parted ways with Galatasaray.
National team career
Krstić played with the Serbia and Montenegro national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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and EuroBasket 2005
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.
As captain of Serbian national team he played at the EuroBasket 2009
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, where he won the silver medal and 2010 FIBA World Championship
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, where he won the fourth place. In the following year, he played at the 2010 FIBA World Championship
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where Serbia was defeated 99–88 by Lithuania
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in the game for the bronze medal. He represented the national team at the EuroBasket 2011
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in Lithuania where Serbia finished eighth and at the EuroBasket 2013
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France defeated Lithuania in th ...
in Slovenia where Serbia finished seventh and qualified for 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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. At the World Cup in Spain, Serbian national team took the silver medal. Shortly after the final game of the tournament, he retired from the national team, after ten years of playing and six years of captaining.
Post-playing career
On August 22, 2019, Krstić was named a director of the youth national basketball teams at the Basketball Federation of Serbia
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. On December 14, 2020, Krstić was elected vice-president of the Basketball Federation of Serbia.
Personal life
Krstić is married to his wife Tanja and has one daughter. Krstić, whose nickname is "Curly", was voted the third most eligible bachelor by Serbia's version of ''People'' magazine.
On August 19, 2010, in a game against Greece for the Acropolis International Tournament 2010, he participated in a fight between players and threw a chair at Greek Ioannis Bourousis
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. That resulted in his spending the night at the police station, from where he was released the day after. He stated in his defence that he thought Bourousis was a fan when he threw the chair at him. In the same fight Krstić attacked Greek player Sofoklis Schortsanitis a number of times from behind.
After the 2010 Serbia earthquake
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, Krstić and his Oklahoma City Thunder
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teammates donated $10,000 to help his hometown of Kraljevo
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, which was directly affected by the nearby calamity.
Krstić owns and operates a distillery
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.
Career statistics
NBA
Regular season
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, 26 , , 26 , , 32.6 , , .526 , , .000 , , .711 , , 6.8 , , 1.8 , , .4 , , .9 , , 16.4
, -
, style="text-align:left;",
, style="text-align:left;", New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
, 45 , , 38 , , 18.0 , , .410 , , .000 , , .754 , , 4.4 , , .6 , , .2 , , .4 , , 6.6
, -
, style="text-align:left;",
, style="text-align:left;", Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, a ...
, 46 , , 29 , , 24.8 , , .469 , , .000 , , .797 , , 5.5 , , .6 , , .5 , , 1.1 , , 9.7
, -
, style="text-align:left;",
, style="text-align:left;", Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, a ...
, 76 , , 76 , , 22.9 , , .502 , , .200 , , .717 , , 5.0 , , .7 , , .4 , , .6 , , 8.4
, -
, style="text-align:left;",
, style="text-align:left;", Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, a ...
, 47 , , 47 , , 21.7 , , .498 , , .000 , , .803 , , 4.4 , , .4 , , .4 , , .4 , , 7.6
, -
, style="text-align:left;",
, style="text-align:left;", Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
, 24 , , 20 , , 23.0 , , .537 , , .000 , , .750 , , 5.3 , , .3 , , .3 , , .3 , , 9.1
, - class="sortbottom"
, style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career
, 419 , , 373 , , 25.2 , , .494 , , .143 , , .730 , , 5.4 , , .8 , , .4 , , .7 , , 10.0
Playoffs
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
, style="text-align:left;", New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
, 4 , , 4 , , 38.5 , , .563 , , .000 , , .792 , , 7.5 , , 1.8 , , .3 , , .5 , , 18.3
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
, style="text-align:left;", New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
, 11 , , 11 , , 33.3 , , .504 , , .000 , , .711 , , 6.8 , , .7 , , .5 , , .9 , , 14.7
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2010
File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...
, style="text-align:left;", Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, a ...
, 6 , , 6 , , 21.5 , , .405 , , .000 , , .929 , , 5.8 , , .7 , , .5 , , .7 , , 7.2
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
, style="text-align:left;", Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
, 7 , , 0 , , 8.0 , , .625 , , .000 , , .667 , , 1.7 , , .3 , , .0 , , .6 , , 1.7
, - class="sortbottom"
, style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career
, 28 , , 21 , , 25.2 , , .505 , , .000 , , .767 , , 5.4 , , .8 , , .3 , , .7 , , 10.4
Euroleague
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2001–02
, style="text-align:left;" rowspan=3, Partizan Partizan may refer to:
Sport
* JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs:
**AK Partizan, athletics
** Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling
** Džudo Klub Partizan, judo
**FK Partizan, association fo ...
, 13 , , 8 , , 19.7 , , .385 , , .000 , , .595 , , 4.4 , , .2 , , .5 , , .6 , , 4.8 , , 4.2
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2002–03
, 10 , , 7 , , 30.1 , , .489 , , .000 , , .717 , , 6.2 , , .9 , , 1.2 , , .6 , , 12.8 , , 13.1
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2003–04
, 9 , , 7 , , 24.8 , , .600 , , .000 , , .721 , , 2.9 , , .6 , , .2 , , 1.0 , , 13.4 , , 13.0
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2011–12
, style="text-align:left;" rowspan=3, CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was a central piece ...
, 22 , , 18 , , 24.5 , , .629 , , .000 , , .786 , , 5.5 , , .6 , , .5 , , .5 , , 14.2 , , 18.4
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2012–13
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...
, 29 , , 7 , , 23.4 , , .613 , , 1.000 , , .738 , , 4.4 , , 1.0 , , .3 , , .7 , , 13.0 , , 16.8
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2013–14
, 29 , , 15 , , 19.4 , , .502 , , .600 , , .630 , , 3.2 , , .8 , , .3 , , .6 , , 9.6 , , 10.0
, -
, style="text-align:left;", 2014–15
, style="text-align:left;", Anadolu Efes
Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.''(lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in a wide geographical area comprising Turkey, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independe ...
, 19 , , 10 , , 21.5 , , .571 , , .000 , , .808 , , 5.1 , , 1.4 , , .3 , , .5 , , 12.8 , , 17.1
, - class="sortbottom"
, style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career
, 131 , , 72 , , 22.7 , , .560 , , .500 , , .732 , , 4.5 , , .8 , , .4 , , .6 , , 11.6 , , 13.9
See also
*
* List of European basketball players in the United States
This is a list of European basketball players who have played in the United States at either professional or NCAA Division I level. It is intended to include players who are currently active, whether inside or outside the U.S., and former player ...
* List of Serbian NBA players
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
References
External links
*
Nenad Krstić
at espn.com
Nenad Krstić
at euroleague.net
at fibaeurope.com
Nenad Krstić
at tblstat.net
at vtb-league.com
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krstic, Nenad
1983 births
Living people
2010 FIBA World Championship players
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Anadolu Efes S.K. players
BC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
Boston Celtics players
Centers (basketball)
KK Partizan players
National Basketball Association players from Serbia
New Jersey Nets draft picks
New Jersey Nets players
Oklahoma City Thunder players
Olympic basketball players of Serbia and Montenegro
PBC CSKA Moscow players
Serbia men's national basketball team players
Serbian basketball executives and administrators
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Russia
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Turkey
Serbian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Serbian men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Kraljevo