Aleks Marić

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Aleks Marić
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Marić playing for Partizan in December 2009
No. 12 – Obradoiro CAB
Position Center
League Liga ACB
Personal information
Born (1984-10-22) 22 October 1984 (age 40)
Sydney, New South Wales
Nationality Australian / Serbian
Listed height 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Listed weight 275 lb (125 kg)
Career information
High school Life Center Academy
(Burlington, New Jersey)
College Nebraska (2004–2008)
NBA draft 2008 / Undrafted
Playing career 2008–present
Career history
2008–2009 Granada
2009–2010 Partizan Belgrade
2010–2012 Panathinaikos
2012–2014 Lokomotiv Kuban
2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2014–2015 Galatasaray Liv Hospital
2015 Petrochimi Bandar Imam
2015 Gran Canaria
2015–2016 Budućnost Podgorica
2016–present Obradoiro
Career highlights and awards

Aleksandar "Aleks" Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар "Алекс" Марић, born 22 October 1984) is an Australian-Serbian professional basketball player for Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro of the Liga ACB. Standing at Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)., he plays the center position.

Career

Marić began playing basketball as a youth in Sydney before attending the Australian Institute of Sport. He played high school basketball in the United States at Life Center Academy in Burlington, New Jersey. He then played college basketball at the University of Nebraska with the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 2004 to 2008, where he was named to the All-Big 12 Conference 2nd team in both 2007 and 2008.[1] Marić finished school at Reddam House in Sydney's Bondi Beach.

Personal life

Marić is of Serbian descent and also has Serbian citizenship.[2]

College statistics

College Year[3] GP GS MIN SPG BPG RPG APG PPG FG% FT% 3P%
Nebraska 2004–05 27 10 20.8 0.5 0.6 6.3 0.5 8.0 .479 .716 .000
Nebraska 2005–06 31 26 25.3 0.8 1.3 8.1 1.2 10.9 .472 .611 .000
Nebraska 2006–07 30 30 28.8 0.5 1.1 8.7 0.8 18.5 .565 .681 .300
Nebraska 2007–08 33 33 29.3 1.3 1.7 10.2 1.9 15.7 .575 .657 .167

Professional career

Marić began his professional career in June 2008 with the Spanish ACB League club Granada.[4] At the end of the season, on 30 June 2009, he exercised the option in his contract and decided to leave the club.[5]

On 7 July 2009, Marić signed multi-year deal with the Adriatic League club Partizan Belgrade.[6] During his first season in Partizan, Marić went from the status of a relatively unknown basketball player to one of a Euroleague star, all thanks to his great games throughout the season. In 93–92 win over Efes Pilsen in the Euroleague, he scored 34 points, pulled 16 rebounds and had 49 performance index rating which was record of the season, along with Darjuš Lavrinovič who also had 49 in the same season. That made them 8th overall in PIR since the beginning of the 2000–01 Euroleague season.[7][8] He was named to the 2009-10 All-Euroleague First Team.[9] With Partizan, he managed to win the Serbian national cup trophy (the Radivoj Korać Cup Trophy), as well as the Adriatic Championship in the amazing overtime finish.[10]

On 30 July 2010, Marić signed a two-year contract with the Greek club Panathinaikos.[11] In his first season with the club, he won the Euroleague title in win over the Maccabi Tel Aviv.[12] Later, he won and the Greek Basket League championship. In his second season he won the Greek basketball cup.[13]

On 27 July 2012, he signed with the VTB United League club Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar.[14][15]

On 2 September 2014, Marić signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv.[16] On 25 December 2014, he was waived by Maccabi.[17] The next day he signed with the Turkish team Galatasaray Liv Hospital.[18] On 3 March 2015, he left Galatasaray and signed with Petrochimi Bandar Imam of the Iranian Super League.[19] On 29 April 2015, he left Petrochimi and signed with the Spanish club Gran Canaria for the rest of the 2014–15 ACB season.[20]

On 3 September 2015, he signed with the Montenegrin club Budućnost Podgorica for the 2015–16 season.[21] After some miserable showings in the first few games of the ABA League, he led his team in 80–61 win over Tajfun with 20 points and 10 rebounds, and was named the MVP of the Round 5 for such performance.[22] On April 4, 2016, he left Budućnost and signed with Spanish club Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro for the rest of the 2015–16 ACB season.[23]

Australian national team

With the Australian junior national team, Marić won the gold medal at the 2003 FIBA Under-19 World Championship. He also played at the 2005 FIBA Under-21 World Championship with Australia's junior national team.[24] Media reports emanating from Serbia stated Maric had expressed a desire to play for the senior Serbian national basketball team, however this was later denied by Maric.[25]

Marić played for the senior Australian national basketball team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey.[26] Marić averaged 9.2 points and 4.3 rebounds over 6 games at the tournament.[27]

He also played with Australia at the 2012 Olympics in London where Australia lost 119-86 in quarterfinal matchup with the United States.[28]

Personal life

Marić was born in Sydney, to ethnic Serb parents from Knin, Yugoslavia (today in Croatia).[29]

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.

† Denotes seasons in which Marić won the Euroleague
Led the league

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2009–10 Partizan 18 9 25.5 .607 .000 .648 8.4 1.2 1.2 .6 14.6 21.1
2010–11† Panathinaikos 8 0 7.6 .556 .000 .667 3.5 1.0 .6 .4 3.5 6.3
2011–12 Panathinaikos 22 9 7.1 .673 .000 .560 2.5 .1 .5 .1 3.6 4.9
2013–14 Lokomotiv Kuban 23 10 17.2 .602 .000 .588 3.6 1.0 .8 .6 6.1 8.0
2014–15 Maccabi 8 2 8.8 .571 .000 1.000 2.3 .5 .1 .4 2.3 3.9
2014–15 Galatasaray 7 2 10.0 .385 .000 .500 2.9 .7 .1 .0 1.7 2.3
Career 86 32 14.1 .603 .000 .625 4.1 .7 .7 .4 6.3 9.0

References

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