Zoran Paunović ( sr-cyr, Зоран Пауновић, born 19 July 2000) is a Serbian professional

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player for CS Vâlcea 1924 in the National Romanian Basketball League (LNBM).

Early career

Paunović started to play basketball in his hometown

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...

, for the

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youth selections. In Summer 2014, he joined the Crvena zvezda youth. He won the second place at the

2017–18 Junior ABA League The 2017–18 Junior ABA League is the inaugural season of the Junior ABA League with ten men's under-19 teams from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia participating in it. Teams are the juni ...

season with the Zvezda. Over six season games, he averaged 14.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game. In August 2017, he participated at the

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Europe Camp 16 in

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, Israel.

Professional career

In January 2018, Paunović was added to the

Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

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roster for the rest of the 2017–18 season. He missed to play a single game during that season. On 25 July 2018, Paunović signed a four-year professional contract with Crvena zvezda. Prior to the 2018–19 season he was loaned out to FMP. On 28 August 2019, Crveza zvezda parted ways with him. On 11 September 2019, Paunović signed for Dynamic Belgrade. In May 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic ban, he joined a training camp of Partizan. On 22 June 2021, Paunović signed for

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National team career

Paunović was a member of the Serbian under-16 team that competed at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in

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. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 14.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. Paunović was a member of the Serbian under-18 team that won the gold medal at the

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. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 16.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. Paunović was a member of the Serbian under-19 team that finished 7th at the

2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup The 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup (Greek: Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Μπάσκετ FIBA Under-19 2019) was the 14th edition of the FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup, the biennial international men's youth basketball championshi ...

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, Greece. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 7.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game.

Early career

Professional career

National team career

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