Bojan Popović (; born February 13, 1983) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He also represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally. He is a 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall point guard.

Professional career

Popović is a product of the FMP's youth system. After spending four years as a professional at the club from Belgrade's suburb of Železnik, winning one Serbian Cup and Adriatic League trophy, he signed a contract with Russian PBL team Dynamo Moscow. His good performances led the team to the Euroleague quarterfinals, where they lost to Panathinaikos, which eventually won the cup.

Bojan Popović

Next season Bojan signed with ACB and Euroleague team Unicaja Malaga and a season later he stayed in Spain, playing for San Sebastian Bruesa.

Bojan Popović

In summer 2009, Popović signed with Lithuanian club Lietuvos rytas. On November 2, 2009, Popovic won the Euroleague MVP of the Month award for the month of October. Despite his good performances, rytas failed to qualify to the Top 16 and was eliminated from the euroleague for that season. Nonetheless his abilities earned him a contract with Regular Season Group B rivals Efes Pilsen, but he failed to accomplish his early year performance at the Top 16.

Bojan Popović

On 25 August 2010, Popovic signed a one-year contract with KK Partizan. However, Partizan broke the contract only 20 days after signing it, because "he did not fit in the concept of playing". On November 22, 2010 he signed a three-month contract with Cajasol Sevilla in Spain. In March 2011 he signed with Meridiano Alicante until the end of the season.

On October 12, 2011 he signed a one-year contract with Crvena zvezda. He finished the year with averages of 7 points and 3.5 assists in the Adriatic league.

In January 2013 he signed with Bulgarian team PBC Lukoil Academic until the end of season. In January 2014, he signed with the Romanian team CSU Asesoft Ploieşti for the rest of the season.

In February 2015, he signed with Trefl Sopot of the Polish Basketball League.

Serbian national team

Popović has also been a member of the senior men's Serbian national team. He played at the EuroBasket 2009, where he won the silver medal.

Euroleague career statistics

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| style="text-align:left;"| 2006–07

| style="text-align:left;"| Dynamo Moscow

| 22 || 22 || 25.5 || .444 || .271 || .839 || 2.9 || 1.9 || 1.7 || .0 || 10.7 || 12.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2007–08 | style="text-align:left;"| Unicaja Málaga | 20 || 5 || 15.4 || .275 || .303 || .863 || 1.7 || 1.5 || .5 || .0 || 3.6 || 3.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos rytas | 10 || 9 || 32.0 || .353 || .265 || .833 || 2.4 || 5.4 || 2.4 || .2 || 11.2 || 13.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;"| Efes Pilsen | 6 || 0 || 13.1 || .500 || .000 || .889 || 2 || 1.3 || .6 || .0 || 3.3 || 4.8

See also

List of Serbia men's national basketball team players

References

External links

Bojan Popović at abaliga.com

Bojan Popović at acb.com

Bojan Popović at eurobasket.com

Bojan Popović at euroleague.net

Bojan Popović at fiba.com

1983 births

Living people

ABA League players

Anadolu Efes S.K. players

Baloncesto Málaga players

Basketball League of Serbia players

BC Dynamo Moscow players

BC Rytas players

CB Lucentum Alicante players

Real Betis Baloncesto players

CSU Asesoft Ploiești players

Gipuzkoa Basket players

KK Crvena zvezda players

KK FMP (1991–2011) players

Liga ACB players

PBC Academic players

Point guards

Serbia men's national basketball team players

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bulgaria

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Lithuania

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Poland

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Romania

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Russia

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Spain

Serbian expatriate basketball people in Turkey

Serbian men's basketball players

Trefl Sopot players

2006 FIBA World Championship players

Universiade medalists in basketball

FISU World University Games gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro

Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade

Serbia and Montenegro men's basketball players

Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Spain

Basketball players from Belgrade