Dejan Kravić ( sr-Cyrl, Дејан Кравић; born September 9, 1990) is a Serbian-Canadian professional

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player for Estudiantes of the Spanish

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College career

Kravic started his college career with

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. In his sophomore season, Kravic averaged 15.6 points and 9.6 rebounds. In the 2011–12 season, he was redshirted. In the 2012–13 season, he played his first games for the

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. He was named to the First Team Academic All-Big 12.

Professional career

2014–15 season

On July 21, 2014, he signed his first professional contract with Rethymno Aegean in Greece.

2015–16 season

On August 25, 2015, his arrival to SPM Shoeters Den Bosch of the Netherlands was announced. Kravić averaged 14.4 points and 9.4 rebounds per game in the DBL regular season. In the playoffs, he averaged 12.4 points and 6.5 rebounds in 8 games.

2016–17 season

On July 25, 2016, Kravić returned to Rethymno, signing a two-year deal.

2017–18 season

On July 14, 2017, Kravić signed with

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. On October 20, 2017, he left Brussels. In November 2017, he signed with

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of the Greek League.

The Basketball Tournament (TBT)

In the summer of 2017, Kravić played in

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for Team Fredette. He competed for the $2 million prize, and for Team Fredette, he scored 12 points in their first round game, which they lost to Team Utah (Utah Alumni) 100-97.

2018–19 season

On July 5, 2018, Kravić signed a deal with

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. With Virtus, he won the

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(BCL) trophy on May 5, 2019. The team beat

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in the final, Kravić had 4 points and 5 rebounds in the deciding game. Kravić joined Obradoiro in 2019 and averaged 13.2 points and 6.4 rebounds per game in ACB play.

2019–20 season

On July 21, 2020, he has signed with San Pablo Burgos of the

. He won the Basketball Champions League for a second year in a row with Burgos. He became the second player ever to have won two BCL titles, after Kevin Punter.

2021–22 season

Kravić began the season with San Pablo Burgos and averaged 8.7 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game. On January 28, 2022, he signed with

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2022–23 season

On August 16, 2022, he has signed with

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of the Italian

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(LBA).

International career

Kravic is eligible to play in the

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. In June 2014, national team head coach

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included him on the preliminary list of 29 players being considered for the twelve roster spots for the

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. Three weeks later, in early July 2014, Kravić further made Đorđević's shortened list of 20 players invited for the training camp. However, in early August, following the training camp, he got cut as the team began its pre-tournament friendlies.

Career statistics

Europe

, - , align=center , 2014–15 , rowspan="2" align="left", Rethymno Aegean , rowspan="3" align="center", GBL , 26 , , 16.6 , , .510 , , .000 , , .500 , , 4.8 , , 0.2 , , 0.4 , , 0.8 , , 6.6 , - , align=center , 2016–17 , 13 , , 22.2 , , .638 , , .000 , , .571 , , 5.7 , , 0.4 , , 0.9 , , 1.0 , , 9.4 , - , align=center , 2017–18 , align=left ,

, 22 , , 18.9 , , .614 , , .000 , , .620 , , 4.9 , , 0.5 , , 0.9 , , 1.1 , , 11.8 , - , align=center , 2018–19 , align=left ,

, align=center , LBA , 28 , , 21.6 , , .579 , , .000 , , .675 , , 5.9 , , 0.5 , , 0.6 , , 1.2 , , 10.9 , - , align=center , 2019–20 , align=left , Obradoiro , rowspan="2" align="center", ACB , 23 , , 27.7 , , .602 , , .000 , , .632 , , 6.4 , , 1.0 , , 1.0 , , 1.3 , , 13.2 , - , align=center ,

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, align=left , San Pablo Burgos , 33 , , 20.7 , , .598 , , .000 , , .530 , , 4.7 , , 0.7 , , 1.0 , , 0.7 , , 10.8 , - , -class=sortbottom , align="center" colspan=3 , Career , 145 , , 21.1 , , .588 , , .000 , , .599 , , 5.3 , , 0.6 , , 0.8 , , 1.0 , , 10.5

College

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, 32 , , 29 , , 21.2 , , .505 , , .000 , , .646 , , 4.6 , , .8 , , .4 , , 1.3 , , 7.3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 63 , , 57 , , 21.3 , , .511 , , .000 , , .628 , , 4.9 , , 1.0 , , .6 , , 1.3 , , 8.1

Honours

Club

;Den Bosch *

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: 2015–16 * Dutch Supercup:

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;Virtus Bologna *

: 2018–19 ;San Pablo Burgos *

: 2019–20,

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual

* Dutch League All-Star:

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male rookie of the year: 2010

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