It’s Official: Milan Mačvan Inked by Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is proud to announce that Serbian forward/center
Milan Mačvan (21, 2.06 meters – 6’9”) has signed a four and a half year contract with the club, through the 2014 – 2015 season.
Mačvan will arrive in Israel tonight at 22:45.
Mačvan is one of the greatest talents in
Serbian basketball today. He is a gifted player who combines many elements, such as good shooting ability from the middle distance and outstanding passing for a player of his
height, and is a great post-up player with the ability to drive to the basket.
Mačvan, who has the ultimate combination of massive size with a good shooting hand, is a tough fighter on the court and an amiable personality off the court.
Mačvan got his start in the youth departments of
FMP Železnik; during the 2007 – 2008 season he transferred to
KK Hemofarm of
Vršac,
Serbia, where he has played up until now. The 2008 – 2009 season was a breakaway year for the young talent, in every aspect of his game. In the
Adriatic League he finished with averages of 10.9 points and 4.4 rebounds, and in the
Eurocup with 11.3 points and 4.2 rebounds. That same year, he was named
ULEB Eurocup Rising Star.
In the summer of 2009
Mačvan took part in the
Nike Hoop Summit in
Portland,
Oregon, where he was named MVP in the game against the
American National Team in which he scored 23 points, pulled down 14 rebounds and made 6 assists in the international team’s first victory since 1998. Last season (2009 – 2010) he demonstrated impressive ability with averages of 14.6 points and 5.8 rebounds in the
Adriatic League and 9.5 points and 3.7 rebounds in the
Eurocup. In the
Serbian League, when his team dropped out of the finals series against
Partizan Belgrade, he was leading
Hemofarm with 14.3 points and 6.5 rebounds.
This season,
Mačvan is considered one of the best and most in-demand players in
Europe, when he posted amazing averages of 17 points, 8 rebounds and 3.8 assists in the
Eurocup, and 19.2 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 2.8 assists in the
Adriatic League. In the
Euroleague preliminaries, he finished with averages of 20.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3 assists per game; in his game at Nokia Arena against
Hapoel Gilboa/
Galil he scored 31 points, pulled down 6 rebounds and made 3 assists in
Hemofarm’s victory. In his final game in
Serbia,
Mačvan scored 15 points, made 4 assists and took 3 rebounds.
Mačvan has also been a fixture on the various strong
Serbian National Teams. In 2007, he was part of the U-19 team that won the world championship. That same summer, he played for the Serbian U-18 team, which won the
European championship. The following year, he won another gold medal, this time with the U-20 Serbian National Team in the European championships, which he finished with impressive averages of 16.9 points and 6.6 rebounds. In the
EuroBasket of 2009 he joined the senior men’s National Team, which took the silver medal after losing to Spain. He also played with the Serbian National Team last summer at the European championship in
Turkey.
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(2.01-SG/SF) could return to Cibona Zagreb, the club that he started his career in. Giricek, like many others before him might go down the sentimental route and in the twilight of his career play again for the team that made him the international star that he was in his prime.
so Giricek's addition could be invaluable.
