Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga, born March 2, 1973 in Zrenjanin, Serbia, lead player for the Barcelona basketball club.Bodiroga was drafted by the Sacramento Kings in 1996 in the second roung (overall #51) but declined the offer to play in the NBA choosing to remain in Europe.
Sa reprezentacijom je osvojio tri evropska prvenstva i dva svetska prvenstva. Godine 1998. bio je najbolji strelac reprezentacije na Svetskom prvenstvu i najbolji sportista Jugoslavije.On July 13, 2003, Bodiroga married his long time fiancée Ivana Medic in Belgrade's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral.
Career:
- 89/90 Proleter Zrenjanin
- 90/91 - 91/92 KK Zadar
- 92/93 - 93/94 Stefanel Trieste (Italy)
- 94/95 - 95/96 OLIMPIA Milano (Italy)
- 96/97 and 97/98 Real Madrid (Spain)
- 98/99 - 01/02 Panathinaikos Athens (Greece).
- 2002 Gold medal at FIBA World Basketball Championship in Indianapolis (playing for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
- 1998 Gold medal at FIBA World Basketball Championship in Greenland (playing for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
- 1998 Single best shooter in Yugoslav team at the FIBA Championships
- 1997 Gold medal at European Basketball Championship (playing for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
- 1995 Gold medal at European Basketball Championship (playing for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
