Since Bosna didn't seem willing to let him go, by summer 1986, Danilović and Partizan decided to act unilaterally as the player moved to Belgrade knowing full well he'd have to sit out a year before taking part in official competitions.
Also, Bosna's club president Mirza Delibašić and Partizan's vice-president Dragan Kićanović were good friends from their playing days so that created additional awkwardness and the whole thing dragged out for a while'. But then Vujošević started sniffing around, and they suddenly wanted to keep me. In Danilović's own words: 'The Bosna people weren't too keen on me at all while I was there they even planned on loaning me out to other Sarajevo-area clubs, which I didn't want at all.
Predrag djajic mup professional#
Danilović wasn't under a professional contract with the club, but according to Yugoslav Basketball Federation (KSJ) rules, being a youth system prospect he needed his club's permission to complete the move. Getting Danilović and his parents to agree to a move to Belgrade proved to be the easy part the real challenge was getting his club KK Bosna to sign off on the transfer. Young Danilović played for a select team of players from SR Bosnia-Herzegovina at the tournament.īy late 1985, Vujošević started courting the 15-year-old. The player's talent was evident immediately and it didn't take long before he started receiving attention from bigger Yugoslav clubs such as KK Partizan whose assistant coach Duško Vujošević got alerted about the youngster's talents by the team's point guard Željko Obradović who spotted Danilović during summer 1985 at an inter-republic youth basketball tournament on Mount Zlatibor. Already well versed in streetball, he started playing organized basketball in KK Bosna's youth setup under youth coach Mladen Ostojić.
Ī tall and lanky kid, Danilović excelled in various sports, including soccer, speed skating, and street basketball.
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. On 15 December 2016, Danilović became the president of the Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS).īorn in Sarajevo to a family of Herzegovinian Serbs (father Milan from the Orašje Zubci village near Trebinje and mother Vuka from the Kukričje village near Bileća), Danilović grew up in the Alipašino polje neighbourhood near the RTV Sarajevo main building. 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 same year.īeginning in 2007, Danilović served as the president of Partizan, the club with which he spent six years as a player, during the 1980s and early 1990s. Predrag 'Saša' Danilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг 'Саша' Даниловић, pronounced born February 26, 1970), usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilović, is a Serbian former professional basketball player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s.
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