Danilovic should be mentioned, he got pretty decent career in Miami. Bodiroga is greatest Serbian player alive, never played nba though but you can imagine his career by entering bodiroga schools Anthony in search bar. Serbia (Yugoslavia) USA game.
@@NBATimeTraveldude u r deeanged . Divac is best Serbian player ever. He won billlon medals for my country and most were gold unlike overrated jokic. 2nd why u coubt rings that has nothing to talent ? Third Danilivic held records 7 from 7 on 3s later broken by Sam Perkins 8 from 8 and Kobe and Donyelle Marshall 12 from 12. Why u talk bout NBA when u dont know players. Divac also won ring vs Shaq and Kobe. Ref Tim Donaghy admit he rigged vs Sac playoff.
@@NBATimeTravel its not opinion deranged. Im from Serbia. U r controled by USA Tv. Media told u ring matters. I just told u ref said pippen sheed, divac and webber are champions cause he riggedrings for kobrick and shaq. And u act deranged.
@@NBATimeTravel Its not your opinion its lack of knowledge. Everyone who rank Peja and Jokić over Divac dont know sport. Btw u put Milicic on list but not Danilovic shows that u dont know anything bout NBA.
Fun fact: Luka Doncic grandfather is Serbian that moved to Slovenia and had son born there, Sasa Doncic, who is of course father to Luka. Slovenian yes, but essentially Serbian blood too
Jokic father is from Benkovac Croatia..serbians from serbia are to short for basketball..all the best players comes from Croatia predrag stojakovic,jokic,kalinic and bosnia danilovic,divac,.,
@@puljanoyou forgot to add djokovic nikola tesla and all the great serbs are actually from croatia too right? I think you are right, because croats are actually serbians in disguise
A sta su hrvati bogati? Pokatoliceni srbi. Mi smo srbi sa kosova pa nijedan muskarac nije nizi od metar i 85. ja pa imam metar i 83 a zensko sam. Idi za srbiju pa ces videti. Znaci lupas glupost. Pukni te od muke kao za teslom!
Nice, brother, must’ve been a great experience! He’s definitely a people’s champ 👍 Still internally debating the American Top 10, not ready for the 💩storm 😂😂😂
Daj bre, Srbi, kakve to ima veze?! Doncic je rekao da jeste pola Srbin, ali da je Slovenija njegova zemlja, da je Slovenac, da je tu odrastao, skolovao se, ima prijatelje i dozivljava je kao svoju domovinu. Sta sad, Bosanci treba da svojataju Smailagića, koji je Beogradjanin od glave do pete? Da Hrvati svojataju Stefaneka?
Love serbians players... Top notch basketball IQ.. Great shooters .. Great competitors ... Imagine that top if Yougoslavie never Split... Petrovic.. Kukoc.. Etc
One of the great schools of basketball, indeed. While doing the research for this video I was thinking of the same thing, lots of great players in the former state
@@NBATimeTravel 1 person is most responsible for our school, and thats the Legendary Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić or the Father of Yugoslav and Serbian Basketball.
@@aleksandars.7782 good to know, I'll look into this, thanks! For a brief time, I had a Serbian coach here in Bucharest, when I was a kid, and the practices were just different! Loved it
@@NBATimeTravel He was a mentor to a many young upcoming coaches. Some of them are: Božidar Maljković, Dušan Ivković, Bogdan Tanjević, and Željko Obradović... so i think he deserves also to be spoken about! Thank you for making the video bro, keep up the work. You got a new sub.
Haha, nice spin to it! 🤣 There are lots of other talented or better players all-time than some mentioned here, but I only focused on the ones that actually played in the NBA
@@NBATimeTravel No nno, you were right to not include him since he never played in the NBA but we have to disagre on that there were better Serbian players than him except Jokic ofc and Doncic (tehnicaly again haha) since he is half Serbian. Good video btw!
@@zoranzoki2223i8 thank you! 🙏 about Doncic btw.. thought about it, but as long as he plays for Slovenia, I figured it wouldn’t make sense to include him here, but yeah, I get your point 👍
@@NBATimeTravel When you mentioned Luka's origin, Dražen Petrović's father is also Serbian, and Pistol Pete Maravich is genetically Serbian from America. Good video!
@@mlrd2687 thanks for this! I added a short on my channel about Maravich playing a HORSE game in 1978, which was fun to watch. You can also search the full videos of all his HORSE games on the broader youtube, it’s a nice piece of NBA history!
@@NBATimeTravel JOKER is already better than Hakeem Olajuwon...better shooting from all distances passing ball, handling , post moves , JOKIC one of the highest NBA basketball IQ level in history, number 1 triple double center all time... many sites already put JOKIC at number 5 all time
All these abilities you’ve mentioned are related to offense, I think you are leaving out the other part of the game - defense- where Jokic is kind of average, whereas Hakeem and all the others I’ve mentioned, are pretty good to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, Joker is an all-time player, but there’s more to the game than offense and triple-doubles
NIKOLA Jokic is not only among the top 10 player from Serbia in NBA, but the best player in the world of basketball - Nikola Jokic is the smartest player in basketball ever👍👍
I know that he was of Serbian descent, still, he was born in the US and he was eligible to play for USA’s national team, just that he didn’t get selected. That’s the reason why he’s missing, otherwise he would be in the top 3 conversation 👍
if it's All-Time Serbian Top 10 (not just NBA) it would be something like - 1. Jokić 2.Kićanović 3.Dalipagić 4.Bodiroga 5. Divac 6. Korać 7.Đorđević 8.Danilović 9 Stojaković 10. Bogdan Bogdanović...
Agree about Teodosic playing too little in the NBA, but he was some kind of a phenomenon in the first tear, just because of his crazy passes and I think he just got in the NBA way too late / at an old age. Jaric was just outside of the top 10, for me at least. These tops will always be subject for debate anyway 😅
The list talks about players that went to the NBA only, and of the three, Danilovic was the only one that got there, for two seasons. Gjorgevic was never drafted, while Bodiroga was drafted by the Kings, but did not actually play a game for them. Lots of people in the comments are cheering for Danilovic, so yeah, this might be my miss 🫡
Goran and Zoran Dragica, Doncic - Father Serbian Drazen Petrovic Father Serbian Pistol Marovic, from Serbia - Kolubara Predrag Drobnjak and Radmanovic in Supersonic Djordjevic played in San Antonio Paspalj also.. Sasha Pavlovic with Lebron in Cleavlend Kosta Perovic, Predrag Savovic, Smajlagic, Kuzmica in Golden State Nedovic in Golden State Igor Rakocevic in Minesota
Great list with exception of Teodosić. His NBA career was too short and a lot of players had to be on the list before him - Jarić, Danilović, maybe even Drobnjak. Miličić played much, much longer also... This is only of course if we are looking NBA parts of each career... But really we have Jokić, Peja, Divac and Bogi and after that is big drop.
@@NBATimeTravel It's actually very simple 😊 When you see an ( -IĆ ) at the end, that's the typical ending in Serbian last names, with the letter Ć, which is pronounced like you do in the video, so it's an (C) + (/) above it= Ć. But for some weird reason, I hear people who aren't from Ex-Yugoslavia, often pronouncing the normal letter C at the end of a Serbian name as Ć as well. I guess you're so used to hearing the -IĆ -IĆ -IĆ all the time, so your brains just runs with it when you see a C at the end 🤣 So when you see DIVAC, know it's a normal C without the slash mark above. Actually, if before the C at the end is an OTHER letter than an ( i ), you can be sure, that it's NOT an actual Ć then. Only exception that comes into my mind is the name KORAĆ. In any case: Ć = CH, like it's well known Č = CZ, like in CZECH, or like in CHECK C = TS, like in TSUNAMI
Damn! That was a great breakdown, thank you for taking to the time explain it 👍 never really got the difference between three C’s until now. And you’re right about the -ić, -ić, -ić, at least in my case 😂😂
good enough list, was wondering if you could do the 12 man roster for countries in the olympics this year, would love to see what players you would choose for Serbia.
If two short seasons qualifies you for the list then Danilovic should be on there way ahead of the likes of Bobi, Rebraca and Milos .... and not having Marko Jaric on the list is just wrong. Then you have all the other "serbs" and half-serbs like Pekovic, Nesterovic, Vujacic, Dragic and Doncic !!! .......and Frank Kaminsky (Yes!) had some solid seasons in Charlotte.
There's actually another Serb among the great NBA players, and you may be surprised but it is Luka Doncic since his father is a Serb (former basketball player, too) and his mother is a Slovenian. Having a Slovenian passport does not change the genetics. And when we're on genetics, some claim that one of the greatest talents who unfortunately ended his life in an accident was also a Serb from Criatia, i.e. Drazen Petrovic. Had Drazen lived to show his rich talents, who knows where he would have been in the All-time Gratest of the NBA players. It is really interesting how many good players came from the Balkans, in general, considering the small population overall. And, yes, it includes even a Greek by the name of Giannis Antetokounmpo. Interesting fact: total of 32 NBA players came from Serbia (population 6.7 millions), 23 from Croatia (population 3.8 millions), plus a few from Slovenia, Bosnia etc. Some interesting genomics over there!
Knew about Doncic, but I haven’t included him here just because he represents the Slovenian National Team. When it comes to Petrovic, he definitely had the talent to become one of the all-time greats, it’s just tragic what happened to him. Everyone feared playing against him. All of Eastern Europe delivered incredible basketball talent, I think people from this area are just more passionate about their work and craft, plus back in the days, playing sports or reading books were everyone’s refuge, so besides having athletic abilities, just by practicing more, people became better at what they did. I’m trying to see the geopolitical part of the story as well. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
Jaric had better nba career then Teodosic.Teo,Djordjevic,Micic and even Rakocevic are better players then him but if we talk about nba career Jaric deserve his place in first 10.
Not gonna lie, I thought a lot about Jaric and initially I had him at 10, but gave it to Bobby for having a longer career in the NBA (albeit not by much). Either way, I used to love playing with Jaric in the NBA Live games 😂
Serbia placed higher in the World Cup tournament. Does that make Serbian players better then(a lot) NBA players? Keep in mind Serbia didn't play with best players.
@@SebastijanStanivuk Well, it depends, when you put together a roster of young stars who all want to shine the brightest, there will be no actual team play and USA was full of such examples. Pair this with an average coach (yes, Steve Kerr) and it’s a recipe for “whatever happens, happens”. Team chemistry will always play a big factor on such teams, and USA had no actual leader in the 2023 tournament
@@miloskrstic7713 I would call him flashy, he put on a show when playing, but he averaged 3.5 points per game, not quite fantastic 😅 loved him though, brilliant passer
What is scandalous?We talk about nba career not european.All players in video were far better then him.For example, Djordjevic was generally better player then Jaric and Teodosic biti in nba he wasn't.
All the best "Serbians" basketball players are from Croatia (predrag stojakovic,jokic family,kalinic,.,) and Bosnia and Herzegovina(divac,danilovic,.,)..8 mil serbians from serbia have produced zero elite basketball players..
Just one small mistake - Teodosic and Bjelica are not teammates right now. But that's okay, Teodosic is playing for a very small Serbian club, so it's an honest mistake. It's also important to remind that the list was based on the performance of the players just in the NBA League. If we talked about best Serbian players overall, even Jokic would struggle to reach top 5 of all time.
Indeed, the list only talks about NBA careers, not their international ones. About Teodosic and Bjelica, yes, other people in the comments let me know about this as well, it was my mistake as Bjelica retired before they had the chance to play together. Thanks for the observation!
My bad, I dug on the subject a bit more and that’s true. He last played in Serbia after leaving the NBA until not too long ago, thanks for the comment!
@@NBATimeTravel He was supposed to play for Crvena Zvezda with Miloš Teodosić and Nemanja Nedović, but he never played. I was watching Crvena Zvezda games this seasson, and I wanted to see Bjelica play, but that never happened.
@@NBATimeTravel I was reading that too, but I don't know is it true. At the time coach was Duško Ivanović. He is know as a hard coach, so it might be true.
Amazing talent in Serbia! Greetings from Greece
🎇🎇🎇 kind of proud of the Serbians even as a Romanian
Rumun ima tri brata sumu dunav i Srbina!
Rumuni su nekada bili Srbi
@@tebra643 Vjerojatno su to bili i Rusi i Amerikanci, a možda i Njemci.
@@gorangoran6335 kod nemaca i dan danas imaš LUŽIČKE SRBE
@@gorangoran6335
Zašto vi hrvati svi imate srbska prezimena. Ti si sigurno Petrović ili Živković
Danilovic should be mentioned, he got pretty decent career in Miami.
Bodiroga is greatest Serbian player alive, never played nba though but you can imagine his career by entering bodiroga schools Anthony in search bar. Serbia (Yugoslavia) USA game.
Knew the Bodiroga video, he definitely cooked young Melo! And indeed, Danilovic had a decent run in the NBA, a good scoring Shooting Guard 👍
@@NBATimeTraveldude u r deeanged . Divac is best Serbian player ever. He won billlon medals for my country and most were gold unlike overrated jokic. 2nd why u coubt rings that has nothing to talent ? Third Danilivic held records 7 from 7 on 3s later broken by Sam Perkins 8 from 8 and Kobe and Donyelle Marshall 12 from 12. Why u talk bout NBA when u dont know players. Divac also won ring vs Shaq and Kobe. Ref Tim Donaghy admit he rigged vs Sac playoff.
@@vainfreeland5884 I guess we’re all entitled to our opinion
@@NBATimeTravel its not opinion deranged. Im from Serbia. U r controled by USA Tv. Media told u ring matters. I just told u ref said pippen sheed, divac and webber are champions cause he riggedrings for kobrick and shaq. And u act deranged.
@@NBATimeTravel Its not your opinion its lack of knowledge. Everyone who rank Peja and Jokić over Divac dont know sport. Btw u put Milicic on list but not Danilovic shows that u dont know anything bout NBA.
Fun fact:
Luka Doncic grandfather is Serbian that moved to Slovenia and had son born there, Sasa Doncic, who is of course father to Luka.
Slovenian yes, but essentially Serbian blood too
Let’s just say that underneath the Slovenian jersey, beats a Serbian heart 💪 thanks for sharing!
Jokic father is from Benkovac Croatia..serbians from serbia are to short for basketball..all the best players comes from Croatia predrag stojakovic,jokic,kalinic and bosnia danilovic,divac,.,
@@puljanoyou forgot to add djokovic nikola tesla and all the great serbs are actually from croatia too right?
I think you are right, because croats are actually serbians in disguise
A sta su hrvati bogati? Pokatoliceni srbi. Mi smo srbi sa kosova pa nijedan muskarac nije nizi od metar i 85. ja pa imam metar i 83 a zensko sam. Idi za srbiju pa ces videti. Znaci lupas glupost. Pukni te od muke kao za teslom!
@@puljano dal si ti covek normalan,jedan od najvisih naroda na svetu smo i ispred hrvata po proseku
Met Boban once He is a giant man but one of the sweetest people I've ever met.
Also still waiting on the best American players 😂
Nice, brother, must’ve been a great experience! He’s definitely a people’s champ 👍
Still internally debating the American Top 10, not ready for the 💩storm 😂😂😂
❤❤❤
@@NBATimeTravel the shit storm is the best lol
Jokić, Stojaković, Divac, Bogdanović, Danilović, Krstić, Bijelica, Radmanović, Jarić, Rebrača
bodiroga
@@pd692 nije igrao u NBA
Danilović ne spada među deset najboljih srpskih igrača, ali je sigurno među deset najboljih naših igrača koji su igrali u NBA.
@@mlrd2687A kako ne spada izvini. Čovek 4x evropski prvak sa reprezentacijom i najbolja dvojka Evrope 90ih. Iako mu je karakter upitan, igracina ipo!
Doncić and Dragić are serbian too but playing for slovenia ;)
If you count those two then we can easily put Pistol Pete Maravich on the list because although American, he was of Serbian descent.
a drazen pertovic
@@pd692 True. Dražen Petrović's father was Serbian. Petrović is in fact a second cousin of Dejan Bodiroga
Dude do ur geography
Daj bre, Srbi, kakve to ima veze?! Doncic je rekao da jeste pola Srbin, ali da je Slovenija njegova zemlja, da je Slovenac, da je tu odrastao, skolovao se, ima prijatelje i dozivljava je kao svoju domovinu.
Sta sad, Bosanci treba da svojataju Smailagića, koji je Beogradjanin od glave do pete? Da Hrvati svojataju Stefaneka?
Vlade is my hero💙❤
Glad that Stojakovic won a championship! Would’ve been better if he could’ve done it in his prime with the Kings
Yep, well deserved 👍
Love serbians players... Top notch basketball IQ.. Great shooters .. Great competitors ... Imagine that top if Yougoslavie never Split... Petrovic.. Kukoc.. Etc
One of the great schools of basketball, indeed. While doing the research for this video I was thinking of the same thing, lots of great players in the former state
@@NBATimeTravel 1 person is most responsible for our school, and thats the Legendary Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić or the Father of Yugoslav and Serbian Basketball.
@@aleksandars.7782 good to know, I'll look into this, thanks! For a brief time, I had a Serbian coach here in Bucharest, when I was a kid, and the practices were just different! Loved it
@@NBATimeTravel He was a mentor to a many young upcoming coaches. Some of them are: Božidar Maljković, Dušan Ivković, Bogdan Tanjević, and Željko Obradović... so i think he deserves also to be spoken about! Thank you for making the video bro, keep up the work. You got a new sub.
That Radmanovic 500k dollars story is crazy 🤣🤣
Great video. Informative and well structured
Much appreciated! 🏀
I quess tehnicaly Dejan Bodiroga is 2nd best since while he never set foot on NBA floor he was drafted in 1995,
Haha, nice spin to it! 🤣 There are lots of other talented or better players all-time than some mentioned here, but I only focused on the ones that actually played in the NBA
@@NBATimeTravel No nno, you were right to not include him since he never played in the NBA but we have to disagre on that there were better Serbian players than him except Jokic ofc and Doncic (tehnicaly again haha) since he is half Serbian. Good video btw!
@@zoranzoki2223i8 thank you! 🙏 about Doncic btw.. thought about it, but as long as he plays for Slovenia, I figured it wouldn’t make sense to include him here, but yeah, I get your point 👍
@@NBATimeTravel When you mentioned Luka's origin, Dražen Petrović's father is also Serbian, and Pistol Pete Maravich is genetically Serbian from America. Good video!
@@mlrd2687 thanks for this! I added a short on my channel about Maravich playing a HORSE game in 1978, which was fun to watch. You can also search the full videos of all his HORSE games on the broader youtube, it’s a nice piece of NBA history!
NIKOLA JOKIC already in TOP 5 best NBA center all time...
I would say 2 more championships and he’s there. Can he already be considered better than Kareem, Shaq, Wilt, Olajuwon, Russell? 🤷♂️
@@NBATimeTravel JOKER is already better than Hakeem Olajuwon...better shooting from all distances passing ball, handling , post moves , JOKIC one of the highest NBA basketball IQ level in history, number 1 triple double center all time... many sites already put JOKIC at number 5 all time
All these abilities you’ve mentioned are related to offense, I think you are leaving out the other part of the game - defense- where Jokic is kind of average, whereas Hakeem and all the others I’ve mentioned, are pretty good to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, Joker is an all-time player, but there’s more to the game than offense and triple-doubles
@@NBATimeTravel ok i respect your knowledge and we wait for few more good NBA season for NIKOLA JOKIC TOP 5 players all time 💪💪💪
Brate, Hakim je broj 1 centar. Šeka je stavljao u dzep@@trumpameri1638
Meni je Divac najdrazi!
NIKOLA Jokic is not only among the top 10 player from Serbia in NBA, but the best player in the world of basketball - Nikola Jokic is the smartest player in basketball ever👍👍
Currently he is the best, indeed. High IQ player!
Where is Pistol Pete???
I know that he was of Serbian descent, still, he was born in the US and he was eligible to play for USA’s national team, just that he didn’t get selected. That’s the reason why he’s missing, otherwise he would be in the top 3 conversation 👍
if it's All-Time Serbian Top 10 (not just NBA) it would be something like - 1. Jokić 2.Kićanović 3.Dalipagić 4.Bodiroga 5. Divac 6. Korać 7.Đorđević 8.Danilović 9 Stojaković 10. Bogdan Bogdanović...
Great video
Thank you!🙏
You forgot Sasa Danilovic!
He is top 5
Nice video bro!
Thank you! 🙏 much appreciated!
DEJAN BODIROGA!!!!🎉🎉🎉
Hasn’t played in the NBA! The clue is in title. Great player though
Where are Danilovic, Bodiroga, Djiordevic?
I think Teodosic is not for this list because he was only 2 sesons and didn't even play regular.
Marko Jaric is on 6, 7 place
Agree about Teodosic playing too little in the NBA, but he was some kind of a phenomenon in the first tear, just because of his crazy passes and I think he just got in the NBA way too late / at an old age. Jaric was just outside of the top 10, for me at least. These tops will always be subject for debate anyway 😅
Danilovic, Gjorgevic and of course Bodiroga MUST be on this list !!!
The list talks about players that went to the NBA only, and of the three, Danilovic was the only one that got there, for two seasons. Gjorgevic was never drafted, while Bodiroga was drafted by the Kings, but did not actually play a game for them. Lots of people in the comments are cheering for Danilovic, so yeah, this might be my miss 🫡
You forgot Predrag Danilovic. He is in top 5.
Danilovic,if you ask him think's he should bi number 1
Sasha Danilovic is top 5 with Marko Maric that they never mentioned.
Jokic,Bodiroga,Divac,Stojakovic,Bogdanovic...!
Goran and Zoran Dragica, Doncic - Father Serbian
Drazen Petrovic Father Serbian
Pistol Marovic, from Serbia - Kolubara
Predrag Drobnjak and Radmanovic in Supersonic
Djordjevic played in San Antonio
Paspalj also..
Sasha Pavlovic with Lebron in Cleavlend
Kosta Perovic, Predrag Savovic, Smajlagic, Kuzmica in Golden State
Nedovic in Golden State
Igor Rakocevic in Minesota
I only included the ones that played for the Serbian National Team, but yeah, the ramifications are wild.
Vlade could be number 2 just because he paved the way for everyone else. Good list though
Makes sense
Great list with exception of Teodosić. His NBA career was too short and a lot of players had to be on the list before him - Jarić, Danilović, maybe even Drobnjak. Miličić played much, much longer also... This is only of course if we are looking NBA parts of each career... But really we have Jokić, Peja, Divac and Bogi and after that is big drop.
The ‘c’ in Divacs surname is pronounced ‘ts’, like if you were saying ‘cats’ as an example.
Where is Danilovic?
Marko Jarić?
Agree with Sasha Danilovic should be top 5
I'm not Serbian but I'm having goosebumps
Divac, not Divać. Pronounced as Divatz.
I’ll work on my Serbian language skills, brate 😂 thanks for letting me know!
@@NBATimeTravel It's actually very simple 😊 When you see an ( -IĆ ) at the end, that's the typical ending in Serbian last names, with the letter Ć, which is pronounced like you do in the video, so it's an (C) + (/) above it= Ć.
But for some weird reason, I hear people who aren't from Ex-Yugoslavia, often pronouncing the normal letter C at the end of a Serbian name as Ć as well. I guess you're so used to hearing the -IĆ -IĆ -IĆ all the time, so your brains just runs with it when you see a C at the end 🤣
So when you see DIVAC, know it's a normal C without the slash mark above. Actually, if before the C at the end is an OTHER letter than an ( i ), you can be sure, that it's NOT an actual Ć then. Only exception that comes into my mind is the name KORAĆ.
In any case:
Ć = CH, like it's well known
Č = CZ, like in CZECH, or like in CHECK
C = TS, like in TSUNAMI
Damn! That was a great breakdown, thank you for taking to the time explain it 👍 never really got the difference between three C’s until now. And you’re right about the -ić, -ić, -ić, at least in my case 😂😂
@@NBATimeTravel My pleasure. Was enjoying seeing your video 😊
good enough list, was wondering if you could do the 12 man roster for countries in the olympics this year, would love to see what players you would choose for Serbia.
that's a great idea, I'll look into it!
You forgot to mention Marko Jaric. He should be in Hall of Fame, just because he scored Adriana Lima.
😂😂😂 best (and true) comment
Where is Stojakovic?
Number 2 brother ✌️
If two short seasons qualifies you for the list then Danilovic should be on there way ahead of the likes of Bobi, Rebraca and Milos .... and not having Marko Jaric on the list is just wrong. Then you have all the other "serbs" and half-serbs like Pekovic, Nesterovic, Vujacic, Dragic and Doncic !!! .......and Frank Kaminsky (Yes!) had some solid seasons in Charlotte.
1 Stojaković 2 Divac Jokić 3 Danilović 4 .......
Greg Popovich also Serb
There's actually another Serb among the great NBA players, and you may be surprised but it is Luka Doncic since his father is a Serb (former basketball player, too) and his mother is a Slovenian. Having a Slovenian passport does not change the genetics. And when we're on genetics, some claim that one of the greatest talents who unfortunately ended his life in an accident was also a Serb from Criatia, i.e. Drazen Petrovic. Had Drazen lived to show his rich talents, who knows where he would have been in the All-time Gratest of the NBA players. It is really interesting how many good players came from the Balkans, in general, considering the small population overall. And, yes, it includes even a Greek by the name of Giannis Antetokounmpo. Interesting fact: total of 32 NBA players came from Serbia (population 6.7 millions), 23 from Croatia (population 3.8 millions), plus a few from Slovenia, Bosnia etc. Some interesting genomics over there!
Knew about Doncic, but I haven’t included him here just because he represents the Slovenian National Team. When it comes to Petrovic, he definitely had the talent to become one of the all-time greats, it’s just tragic what happened to him. Everyone feared playing against him. All of Eastern Europe delivered incredible basketball talent, I think people from this area are just more passionate about their work and craft, plus back in the days, playing sports or reading books were everyone’s refuge, so besides having athletic abilities, just by practicing more, people became better at what they did. I’m trying to see the geopolitical part of the story as well. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
Pete Maravich
Qué pasó con Dragan Petrovic???
I think you’re referring to Drazen Petrovic and he’s Croatian
Alexandar Djodjevic // predrag danilovic // marko jaric //
Sorry without This three Guys This video is Not good... Your a nove dude so i will not use Bad words.... But do netter homeworks
Jaric had better nba career then Teodosic.Teo,Djordjevic,Micic and even Rakocevic are better players then him but if we talk about nba career Jaric deserve his place in first 10.
Not gonna lie, I thought a lot about Jaric and initially I had him at 10, but gave it to Bobby for having a longer career in the NBA (albeit not by much). Either way, I used to love playing with Jaric in the NBA Live games 😂
Jaric je imao muda da zabije trojku i oba bacanja amerima, dok se micic šeta u odbrani protiv talijana
Danilović, Pavlović, Drobnjak,
Pistol Pete Maravich and Luka Dončić are the best Serbian descent players that played in the NBA.
When it comes to Serbian descent players, yes
Boban,Darko...
Marko Jaric is the GOAT, every Serbian knows why 😁
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You're missing a lot of Serbian players like Sasa Danilovic,Dejan Bodiroga ect...
Bodiroga did not even play in the NBA
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Serbia placed higher in the World Cup tournament. Does that make Serbian players better then(a lot) NBA players? Keep in mind Serbia didn't play with best players.
Every team / player can have a bad season /tournament 🤷♂️ Anyway, glad for Serbia getting the 2nd place in the World Cup 👍
@@NBATimeTravel you can have a bad game or 2 but not a tournament
@@SebastijanStanivuk Well, it depends, when you put together a roster of young stars who all want to shine the brightest, there will be no actual team play and USA was full of such examples. Pair this with an average coach (yes, Steve Kerr) and it’s a recipe for “whatever happens, happens”. Team chemistry will always play a big factor on such teams, and USA had no actual leader in the 2023 tournament
@@NBATimeTravel kindaaa same story with serbia?
Give Micic a couple of years in NBA and he will be in TOP10 instead of Rebraca.
He might, I’m just thinking that he’s a 30 year old rookie, not sure how much time he has to develop and adjust to the NBA style
@@NBATimeTravel If you remember Prigioni was 35 when he came to NBA (Knicks). And he was fantastic.
@@miloskrstic7713 I would call him flashy, he put on a show when playing, but he averaged 3.5 points per game, not quite fantastic 😅 loved him though, brilliant passer
Ratko Varda : D
He played a grand total of… 1 NBA game 😂
I'am joking bro :D@@NBATimeTravel
Where is Predrag Danilović here? Scandalous omission!
What is scandalous?We talk about nba career not european.All players in video were far better then him.For example, Djordjevic was generally better player then Jaric and Teodosic biti in nba he wasn't.
Pa pogledaj prosek Danilovica iz Majamija pa kazi dal je Teo bolji ili Rebraca
@@milanlukic1063Danilovic’s NBA stats far exceed some of these players (Boban etc)
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Bobi i Teo ne zaslužuju mesto u top 10. Umesto njih Jarić i Čabarkapa. Bobi je više maskota tima......
Paspalj,Danilovic ???
All the best "Serbians" basketball players are from Croatia (predrag stojakovic,jokic family,kalinic,.,) and Bosnia and Herzegovina(divac,danilovic,.,)..8 mil serbians from serbia have produced zero elite basketball players..
Sve su to Srbi!!!😊
Just one small mistake - Teodosic and Bjelica are not teammates right now. But that's okay, Teodosic is playing for a very small Serbian club, so it's an honest mistake.
It's also important to remind that the list was based on the performance of the players just in the NBA League. If we talked about best Serbian players overall, even Jokic would struggle to reach top 5 of all time.
Indeed, the list only talks about NBA careers, not their international ones. About Teodosic and Bjelica, yes, other people in the comments let me know about this as well, it was my mistake as Bjelica retired before they had the chance to play together. Thanks for the observation!
Дечки синоћ те јебо мали клуб и тај тео
Nemanja Bjelica doesn't play basketball anymore. Do your research.
My bad, I dug on the subject a bit more and that’s true. He last played in Serbia after leaving the NBA until not too long ago, thanks for the comment!
@@NBATimeTravel He was supposed to play for Crvena Zvezda with Miloš Teodosić and Nemanja Nedović, but he never played. I was watching Crvena Zvezda games this seasson, and I wanted to see Bjelica play, but that never happened.
Thanks for clarifying! I also read something about him getting in a fight with the coach, pretty strange..
@@NBATimeTravel I was reading that too, but I don't know is it true. At the time coach was Duško Ivanović. He is know as a hard coach, so it might be true.
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What happened? 😂
Also u need to know, Luka Dončić iz serbian guy from Slovenia, he is also Serb but fron another country.
Every head must bow down and every tongue must confess Serbs are Best White Basketball nation
Completely agree 👍
Koliko divova, majstora i umetnika ovog sporta. Srbijaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Samo kada nema više šugoslovena. SRBIJA!!!!!!!!!
Paspalj , Paspalj !!!!!