Ognjen Stojaković ( sr-cyr, Огњен Стојаковић; born September 29, 1981) is a Serbian professional
basketball
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coach, currently working as the director of player development and an assistant coach for the
Denver Nuggets of the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA).
Coaching career
Stojaković began his coaching career with
FMP in
Belgrade,
Serbia
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. In August 2004, Stojaković became the
youth system
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coach. After nearly 7 years, he left FMP at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Denver Nuggets (2013–present)
Stojaković began working with the
Denver Nuggets prior to the
2013–14 NBA season, serving as the assistant video coordinator for three seasons. At the start of the
2016–17 NBA season he was promoted to assistant coach for player development. Prior to the
2019–20 NBA season
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, he was promoted to director of player development. At the
2023 NBA All-Star Game
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, he was an assistant coach for Team LeBron under Nuggets' head coach
Michael Malone.
Stojaković won an NBA championship when the Nuggets defeated the
Miami Heat
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in the
2023 NBA Finals
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.
See also
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List of Serbian NBA coaches
The following is a list of Serbian basketball coaches who have been assistant or head coaches in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
In 2000, Igor Kokoškov became the first non-American to hold a full-time assistant coach position in th ...
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List of foreign NBA coaches
References
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1981 births
Living people
Denver Nuggets assistant coaches
Sportspeople from Belgrade
Serbian men's basketball coaches
Serbian expatriate basketball people in the United States
University of Belgrade Faculty of Sport and Physical Education alumni