Bojan Bogdanović

For the Serbian basketball player, see Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball).
Bojan Bogdanović

Bogdanović with Fenerbahçe
No. 44 – Brooklyn Nets
Position Shooting guard / Small forward
League NBA
Personal information
Born (1989-04-18) April 18, 1989
Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight 216 lb (98 kg)
Career information
NBA draft 2011 / Round: 2 / Pick: 31st overall
Selected by the Miami Heat
Playing career 2004–present
Career history
2004–2005 Zrinjski Mostar (Bosnia)
2005–2009 Real Madrid (Spain)
2006–2009 →Real Madrid B (Spain)
2005–2006 →Zrinjski Mostar (Bosnia)
2008–2009 →Murcia (Spain)
2009–2011 Cibona Zagreb (Croatia)
2011–2014 Fenerbahçe Ülker (Turkey)
2014–present Brooklyn Nets
Career highlights and awards
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Bojan Bogdanović (Croatian pronunciation: [ˌbǒjan boɡˈdǎːnoʋit͜ɕ]) (born April 18, 1989) is a Croatian professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Croatian national basketball team. Standing at 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in), he plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He was selected by the Miami Heat with the 31st overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft.

Professional career

Early years

Born in Mostar, Bogdanović started his basketball career in 2004 with his hometown club Zrinjski Mostar where he played for one season. In 2005, he signed a five-year deal with Real Madrid, but was loaned back to Zrinjski Mostar for the 2005–06 season. In 2006–07 and 2007–08, he played for Real Madrid's junior team, Real Madrid B, in Spain's 4th-tier league, the Liga EBA. In 2008, he was loaned to CB Murcia for the 2008–09 season. In January 2009, he re-joined Real Madrid's junior team, Real Madrid B. Following the 2008–09 season, he parted ways with Real Madrid.[1]

Cibona Zagreb

Bogdanović with Cibona

In August 2009, Bogdanović signed a four-year deal with Cibona Zagreb.[1] In July 2010, he signed a three-year contract extension with Cibona.[2] Following the 2010–11 season, he parted ways with Cibona.[3]

Fenerbahçe Ülker

On June 19, 2011, Bogdanović signed a multi-year deal with Fenerbahçe Ülker.[4] On June 23, 2011, he was selected with the 31st overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Miami Heat. He was later traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and then again to the New Jersey Nets on draft night.[5][6]

In September 2012, Fenerbahçe confirmed Bogdanović would return for the 2012–13 season.[7] In July 2013, following a breakdown in negotiations with the Brooklyn Nets on a possible contract buy-out, Bogdanović announced his decision to return to Fenerbahçe for the 2013–14 season.[8]

Brooklyn Nets

On July 22, 2014, Bogdanović signed a three-year, $10 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets[9][10] After starting the first 19 games of the 2014–15 season alongside Joe Johnson on the wing, Bogdanović lost his starting spot on December 10 against the Chicago Bulls in favor of Sergey Karasev.[11] He later regained his starting spot on January 10 against the Detroit Pistons.[12] In the Nets' regular season finale on April 15 against the Orlando Magic, Bogdanović had a season-best game with 28 points on 12-of-17 shooting to help the Nets clinch the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference with a 101–88 win.[13] The Nets went on to lose to the Atlanta Hawks 4–2 in the first round of the playoffs.

On November 11, 2015, Bogdanović helped the Nets record their first win of the season, scoring a season-high 22 points in a 106–98 victory over the Houston Rockets.[14] He topped that season high mark with 24 points on February 25, 2016 in a 116–106 win over the Phoenix Suns.[15] On March 15, 2016, he scored a career-high 44 points in a 131–114 over the Philadelphia 76ers. His total was the most for a Nets player since Deron Williams scored 57 on March 4, 2012, and the most by any Nets player since the team moved to Brooklyn prior to the 2012–13 season.[16] In the Nets' regular season finale on April 13, Bogdanović tied his career high with seven three-pointers and scored 29 points in a 103–96 loss to the Toronto Raptors.[17] The Nets lost their final 10 games of the season and finished with a 21–61 win/loss record.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

Note: The Euroleague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

NBA

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2014–15 Brooklyn 78 28 23.8 .453 .355 .821 2.7 .9 .4 .1 9.0
2015–16 Brooklyn 79 39 26.8 .433 .382 .833 3.2 1.3 .4 .1 11.2
Career 157 67 25.3 .442 .370 .828 3.0 1.1 .4 .1 10.1

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2015 Brooklyn 6 5 34.3 .390 .333 .714 3.8 1.7 .7 .3 10.3
Career 6 5 34.3 .390 .333 .714 3.8 1.7 .7 .3 10.3

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2007–08 Real Madrid 1 0 1.8 .000 .000 .000 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0
2009–10 Cibona 15 3 23.3 .436 .387 .435 2.9 .5 .7 .1 8.1 6.4
2010–11 10 10 35.5 .411 .309 .765 3.5 1.8 1.7 .2 18.0 15.3
2011–12 Fenerbahçe 16 7 24.3 .463 .411 .813 2.2 .7 .4 .2 13.0 11.3
2012–13 21 16 28.3 .489 .405 .839 2.1 1.2 .6 .5 15.9 15.5
2013–14 24 21 30.6 .468 .298 .817 2.4 1.9 .5 .4 14.8 12.3
Career 87 57 27.9 .459 .359 .787 2.5 1.2 .7 .3 13.8 12.1

International career

Bogdanović played for the Croatian U16 national team in 2005, the U18 team in 2006 and 2007, and the U20 team in 2009.

In 2010, he joined the Croatian national team for the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

In July 2012, Croatian national team head coach, Jasmin Repeša, kicked Bogdanović off the team for disciplinary reasons.[18] He re-joined Croatia for the 2013 EuroBasket and the 2014 FIBA World Cup. He also represented Croatia at the 2015 EuroBasket,[19] where they were eliminated in the eighth finals by Czech Republic.[20] Over 6 tournament games, he averaged 10.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists on 31.5% shooting from the field.[21]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bojan Bogdanović.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, April 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.