On Monday FIBA Europe announced that versatile Checz forward Jan Vesely (Partizan) is the winner of the 2010 Young Men’s Player of the Year award. Vesely edged out three-time winner PG Ricky Rubio of Spain in both the public and an expert panel vote...
DARIO SARIC, ZAGREB CO (PHOTO: GOL.HR) After returning from this year’s Nike Hoops Summit European phenom Dario Saric (born in 1994) made the following statement for CroHoops.com: “Everything was excellent especially the l...
After being the youngest member of International squad in 2011 Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, European phenom Dario Saric made a memorable comeback to his domestic obligations. Playing for Dubrava Zagreb in Croatian A1 League qualifyin...
MLADEN ERJAVEC (photo by ezadar.hr) After the convincing 80-62 loss to Zadar in the 8th round of Croatian Championship Zagreb CO management board made a relative unexpected decision to fire head coach Mladen “Eri” Erjavec. During...
2011 ZAGREB CO JUNIOR TEAM (photo by www.kk-zagreb.hr) Zagreb CO junior team coached by Andrej Tesla is very glad to take part in the final NIJT Euroleague Tournament which will take place in Barcelona during the course of Euroleague Final Four. Young ...
MARIO HEZONJA, ZAGREB CO On Thursday Zagreb CO had an relatively easy task against French powerhouse INSEP winning the game by 76:65. INSEP was led by phenom Hugo Invernizzi who scored 24 points to go along with 6 boards and 4 steals. Howeve...
6’11” JOSH HEYTVELT WENT 6-8 FROM DOWNTOWN Croatian Cup winner Zagreb CO had no real problem with Zadar’s pressing defence and opened the semifinal series of Croatian League playoffs with convincing 79:98 road win on Visnjik. &...
CROATIAN LEAGUE MVP – LUKA ZORIC, ZAGREB CO (photo by ezadar.hr) Although Zagreb CO has recently been playing without their major season reinforcements, C Mario Kasun & G Alex Renfroe, it again managed to capitalize it’s inte...
Decisive game 3 of Cedevita vs Cibona series received huge publicity push thanks to the head coaches’ feud between Cedevita’s Aleksandar “Aco” Petrovic and Cibona’s Josip “Joke” Vrankovic. Capacity crowd of...
Zagreb was able to explore it’s overall physical presence and relative freshness in order to convincingly win game 1 of Croatian A1 League final series by 58:73. Cedevita had no answer to the play of long-armed Zagreb CO C Luka Zoric w...
In front of 2500 spectators in Trnsko, Zagreb CO managed to take advantage of their homecourt and to win game 2 of the final series by 82:72. Home team grabbed the early lead but Cedevita managed to stay close at the halftime (37:36) thanks ...
…what could be a major blow not only for Croatian but also for regional basketball organization in it’s future efforts. Cedevita’s management is extremely unhappy with the level of officiating provided by referee trio Radov...
Zagreb CO edged Cedevita 85:89 after the game 3 overtime and by sweeping the final series won it’s first ever Croatian title. This accomplishment locked Zagreb CO as #1 team in 2010/11 Croatian Euroleague race and made the dream come t...
Zagreb CO PF Luka Zoric is about to sign three-year contract with the Spanish powerhouse Unicaja Malaga. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed. After demonstrating great improvement in 2009/10 season, 6’10”/209cm Zoric was Zagreb CO ...
Joshua Heytvelt, Zagreb CO (photo by kk-zagreb.hr) According to undisclosed source close to Zagreb CO, club management will most likely extend contracts with the remaining frontcourt anchors C Mario Kasun and PF Josh Heytvelt. With Luka Zori...
