Player Spotlight
If any player has raised himself to superstar status during the ULEB Cup this season, it has to be Lukoil Academic power forward Pero Antic.
In Serbia, they say that whoever washes his hands in the Morava River shall become a great basketball shooter. Dragan Kicanovic, Zeljko Obradovic, Branko Jorovic and Uros Tripkovic heard that advice, and the miracle happened.
The basketball factory at FMP Zeleznik has been producing high-level big men for some time now. When Ognjen Askrabic left FMP in the summer of 2004, he was replaced with fellow power forward Dusko Savanovic, who arrived from the farm club Borac Cacak.
At first glance, Telindus Oostende center Elvir Ovcina's career looks like that of many professional basketball players. At 20 years old, Ovcina has been a basketball globetrotter, playing at the highest levels in six different countries.
Seventy years after Jesse Owens chiseled his name into the collective memory of Berliners with an unforgettable display at the 1936 Olympics, there's a new member of the same Owens family in town, and he's hoping to make some history of his own.
Cacak, a small town close to the Morava River, is known as the "Serbian Bologna" due to its great basketball history. According to legend in Cacak, whoever washes his hands in the Morava River becomes an excellent basketball shooter. The latest hand-washer in Cacak is combo guard Marko Marinovic of BC FMP.
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