Dragan Milosavljević

Dragan Milosavljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Милосављевић; born May 11, 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player who plays for Alba Berlin of the Basketball Bundesliga. He also represents the Serbian national basketball team. Standing at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), he plays the shooting guard position.

Early career

Milosavljević began his career in Napredak Kruševac where he played until 2009. He was signed by Radnički Kragujevac in 2009. He stayed there for one season, playing in the Serbian League and ABA League. In the ABA League, he averaged 10.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game for Radnički.

Partizan Belgrade

On June 28, 2010, he signed a three-year deal with Partizan Belgrade. In his first season in Partizan, he won the Adriatic League, Serbian League and Radivoj Korać Cup. In the Euroleague, Milosavljević averaged 4.2 points and 1.9 rebounds per game, while in the ABA League he averaged 6.9 points and 3 rebounds per game.

In his second season, Milosavlijevic helped his club to defend titles in Serbian League and Radivoj Korać Cup. In the 2011–12 Euroleague season, he averaged 8.2 points and 3.7 rebounds in 10 games of group stage. In the 2011–12 Adriatic League season, Milosavljević averaged 8.3 points and 3.6 rebounds over 27 games. On July 4, 2012, he extended his contract for two more seasons with Partizan.

Next season, Milosavljević won the Serbian League for the third time and he was named the MVP of the finals. In the 2012–13 Euroleague, he scored a career-high of 9.9 points per game. In the Adriatic League he helped his team to return the title after one-year break averaging 6.8 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.

Despite some financial difficulties the club was facing in the summer of 2013, Dragan Milosavljevic decided to stay with Partizan Belgrade. Then, after departure of team captain Vladimir Lučić, he became the next team captain. Along with Léo Westermann and Bogdan Bogdanović he was supposed to lead the backcourt of Partizan in the upcoming season. In a second game of the 2013–14 Euroleague season against JSF Nanterre, he scored 26 points, while also pulling down 6 rebounds, to help his team win by huge margin. In the Euroleague game against Maccabi Tel Aviv on January 24, he has torn ACL on his right knee, which sidelined him for the remainder of the season. He was expected to return on court in six to eight months. In his first season as captain of Partizan, he averaged career-high 12.1 points and 3.7 rebounds per game in the 2013–14 Euroleague, while also averaging 12.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 17 games of the 2013–14 Adriatic League season.

On August 5, 2014, Milosavljević extended his contract for one more season with the club. In December 2014, he returned on the court after ten months of absence due to the injury. The rest of the season, he averaged 11 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1 assist over ABA League 20 games.

Alba Berlin

On June 25, 2015, Milosavljević signed a two-year contract with the German club Alba Berlin. On October 1, he debuted for the team in 74–54 win over ratiopharm Ulm in Round 1 of the German League; he had 5 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.

The Serbian national team head coach Dušan Ivković called Milosavljević for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey, but he didn't manage to make the final roster.

He represented Serbia for the first time at the EuroBasket 2015 under head coach Aleksandar Đorđević. In the first phase of the tournament, Serbia dominated in the toughest Group B with 5-0 record, and then eliminated Finland and Czech Republic in the round of 16 and quarterfinal game, respectively. However, they were stopped in the semifinal game by Lithuania with 67–64, and eventually lost to the host team France in the bronze-medal game with 81–68. Over 7 tournament games played, Milosavljević saw very little playing time, mostly being used by head coach as a defensive task specialist.

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.

Euroleague