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Perasovic & Ferran Martinez (photo by dubrovacki.hr)

This weekend city of Dubrovnik proudly hosted veteran basketball tournament which featured
some of the best European teams from the 1980-ties and 1990-ties including Jugoplastika Split, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Some of the most popular European players from 1980-ties and 1990-ties attended the event including Kukoc, Radja, Sretenovic, Ivanovic, Tabak, Perasovic, Jamchy, Berkowitz, Ferran Martinez, Iturriaga…

Toni Kukoc, Jugoplastika Split (photo by dubrovacki.hr)

Many of the veterans were eager to play up to their max and help their team win the Tournament. Jugoplastika’s legendary forward Toni Kukoc suffered muscle strain.

Results:

Jugoplastika vs Real Madrid 14:30

Maccabi vs Barcelona 16:29

Jugoplastika vs Maccabi 31:25

Barcelona vs Real Madrid 27:29

Real Madrid vs Maccabi 22:22

Barcelona vs Jugoplastika 23:26

Final standings:

1. Real Madrid 5 points

2. Jugoplastika 4 points

3. Barcelona 2 points

4. Maccabi 1 point

On Sunday (20.00 CET), European basketball legends will compete in the basketball shooting exhibition which will take place on Stradun, which is the main street of old city center.

Toni Kukoc (photo: Vladimir Radicevic/Gol.hr)

After undergoing a hip replacement, 42-year old legendary Toni Kukoc is enjoying plenty of golf in retirement. Often matched against MJ Kukoc is still developing his trash-talking skills.

“You’re talking a little trash, you’re talking memories, you have a cigar, just walking when it’s nice outside. So it’s all great and fun and you’re playing golf, so what’s better than that?” – Kukoc

Read the complete interview with Toni Kukoc by Melissa Isaacson (ESPN Chicago).

EUROPEAN PHENOM DARIO SARIC, ZAGREB CO

This year Nike Hoop Summit game will take place tonight in Portland (Oregon, U.S.A.) and as usual it has already generated a tremendous amount of electricity around the basketball globe.

In the 14th annual edition of this prestigious competition Team USA will look forward to achieve it’s 11th W in front of the capacity crowd in Portland’s Rose Garden.

This game will instantly remove some of hype cruising around with some of the players involved. It will help confirming someone’s reported talent. It will help revealing someone’s hidden talent.

The youngest player of this year’s game comes from Croatia. His name is Dario Saric, his basketball idol is Magic Johnson and is considered the second coming of the legendary Bulls star Toni Kukoc.

Yesterday, Saric celebrated his 17th birthday and thus still has two extra years to reach his prime before reaching his climax for this competition, which led many to NBA.

Still, Saric has seen plenty of minutes this season for Zagreb CO subsidiary Dubrava Zagreb and thus should be ready to make a relatively strong impact in the limited minutes. This is nbadraft.net’s most recent update about his NHS stock:

“Saric is the youngest player in the Nike Hoops Summit this year (1994 born), but he doesn’t play like it. Dario is a prolific outside shooter with a very versatile and well-rounded game. He has good ball-handling and passing ability. Saric needs to continue to add weight, but he has plenty of time for that.”

The game starts at 04.00 CET and it can be seen live via FIBATV (to register click here).