Predrag Savović

Predrag Savović

Savović with Bilbao Basket in March 2009.
Personal information
Born	(1976-05-21) 21 May 1976 Pula, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Montenegrin / Spanish
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	225 lb (102 kg)
Career information
High school	Ivan Goran Kovacic
College	UAB (1997–1998) Hawaii (1999–2002)
NBA draft	2002: undrafted
Playing career	1993–2009
Position	Guard
Number	4, 1, 11
Career history
1993–1995	Partizan
1995–1996	Beovuk 72
1996–1997	Zorka Šabac
2002–2003	Denver Nuggets
2004	Spirou Charleroi
2005–2009	Iurbentia Bilbao
Career highlights and awards
Belgian League champion (2004) AP honorable mention All-American (2002) 2× First-team All-WAC (2001, 2002) WAC tournament MVP (2002)
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Predrag Savović (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Савовић; born 21 May 1976) is a Montenegrin former professional basketball player. Among many teams in his professional career he played for KK Partizan Belgrade, the NBA's Denver Nuggets and Iurbentia Bilbao of the Spanish ACB.

Early life and college career

WAC Champions 2002, University of Hawaii

Savović was born in Pula, SR Croatia, at the time part of SFR Yugoslavia, to a family of Montenegrin descent. He attended Ivan Goran Kovačić High School in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. He attended the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) from 1997 to 1998 and then the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in the U.S., from 1998 to 2002. He holds degrees in International Business and Finance as well as Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also holds an EMBA Degree from University of Deusto, Deusto Business School. Predrag was a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference pick in his junior and senior seasons, the MVP of the 2002 WAC tournament, and an honorable mention All-American selection by the Associated Press. Hawaii advanced to the first round of the NCAA tournament of 2002.

Career

Savović grew up playing for Partizan Belgrade, Beovuk, and IVA Zorka Pharm Šabac. He moved to the American NCAA even though he was well into his twenties. Undrafted, he signed with the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets in 2002, for whom he played during the 2002-03 NBA season, making him one of only few European players at guard position by that time that made a transition from NCAA to NBA without being drafted. He only played in 27 NBA games, totaling 83 points, 25 rebounds and 22 assists. Savović' final NBA game was played on April 2, 2003 in a 75 - 83 loss to the New York Knicks where he played for nearly 5 minutes and had no stats other than three missed field-goals.

For the last five years of his professional basketball career, he has been an important member of Bilbao Basket, a member of ACB League in Spain until his retirement in 2009.

Personal life and business career

Predrag Savović is a co-founder of IBEXMONT D.O.O:, a consulting firm based in Republic of Montenegro. . He is also a Public Speaker on subject of Team Work and Team Efficiency working closely with many companies in Spain and other European countries. He is also a co-founder of BADAIS INTERNATIONAL a successful flower wholesale business in London UK.

His younger brother, Boban, is also a retired basketball player and an assistant coach of JL Bourg Basket of PRO A French premiere basketball league.

After some years working in Bilbao Basket he became the president of the club in December 2010 until he left the club in the summer of 2017. He held a position as a CEO of Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D. professional basketball club in Spain from 2017 - 2019. From 2019 to 2021 he was employed one more time as a CEO of CD Basket Bilbao Berri S.A.D.

In November 2021 he joined a team of Fintech company BRYDG CAPITAL in London as a Business Development Manager.

See also

• List of Serbian NBA players

External links

• NBA.com biography
• EurocupBasketball.com Profile
• Hawaii Warriors bio