How tall is Sasha Danilovic

Predrag “Saša” Danilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг “Саша” Даниловић, pronounced [prêdraːɡ saːʃa danǐːloʋitɕ]; born February 26, 1970), usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilović, is a Serbian professional basketball organization and former player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s. Danilović was the EuroLeague Final Four MVP in 1992, was voted Mister Europa Player of the Year in 1998, and was Italian League MVP the similar year.

Beginning in 2007, Danilović served as the president of Partizan, the club following which he spent six years as a player, during the 1980s and yet to be 1990s. In 2015, he resigned from the position. On December 15, 2016, Danilović became the president of the Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS).

Born in Sarajevo to a relatives of Herzegovinian Serbs (father Milan from the Orašje Zubci village close Trebinje and mother Vuka from the Kukričje village close Bileća), Danilović grew happening in the Alipašino polje neighbourhood near the RTV Sarajevo main building. During adolescence, his summers and winters were mostly spent in his parents’ respective villages and the town of Trebinje where he had aunts and uncles.

A tall and gaunt kid, Danilović excelled in various sports, including football, speed skating, and street basketball. Already capably versed in streetball, in 1984, the fourteen-year-old began playing organized basketball in KK Bosna’s teens setup under youth coach Mladen “Makso” Ostojić. The player’s aptitude was evident rapidly and it didn’t accept long back he started receiving attention from augmented Yugoslav clubs such as KK Partizan whose assistant coach Duško Vujošević got alerted about the youngster’s talents by the team’s lessening guard Željko Obradović who had spotted Danilović during summer 1985 at a Yugoslav intra-republic puberty basketball tournament upon Mount Zlatibor. Young Danilović played for a select team of players representing SR Bosnia-Herzegovina at the tournament.

By late 1985, Vujošević started courting the fifteen-year-old. Getting Danilović and his parents to agree to a influence to Belgrade proved to be the simple part; the genuine challenge was getting his club KK Bosna to sign off upon the transfer. Danilović wasn’t below a professional contract later than the Sarajevo club, however, according to Yugoslav Basketball Federation (KSJ) rules, being a youth system prospect he needed his club’s access to resolved the move. In Danilović’s own words: “Bosna club handing out weren’t too keen on me at all while I was there; they had even been planning to expand me out to further Sarajevo-area clubs, which I didn’t desire at all. But after that Vujošević started sniffing around, and they sharply wanted to save me. Also, Bosna club president Mirza Delibašić and Partizan vice-president Dragan Kićanović were close friends going encourage to their playing days, so that created supplementary awkwardness and the whole concern dragged out for a while”.