| Mila Nikolich | |
| Number: | 24 |
| Position: | Forward |
| Height Cm: | 190 |
| Weight Kg: | 83 |
| Birth Date: | 1971 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| College: | Abilene Christian |
| Draft League: | WNBA |
| Career Start: | 1999 |
| Career End: | 2004 |
| Team1: | Houston Comets |
| Team2: | Portland Fire |
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| Wnba Profile: | mila_nikolich |
Mila Nikolich (also spelled Nikolić, born 7 April 1971), is a Serbian former professional basketball player.[1] [2] She played for the Abilene Christian Wildcats at the collegiate level. Later, she played for the Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), with who she won a WNBA championship with. She then played for the Portland Fire.
Nikolich college basketball in the United States for the Abilene Christian Wildcats.[3] She later played professional basketball. During the 1998–99 season, she played professional basketball in the Canary Islands.[4]
She went undrafted in the WNBA Draft, but was signed by the Houston Comets in the midst of their dynasty at the beginning of the WNBA's history. She played for the Comets in 1999, winning the 1999 WNBA Finals with them.[5] [6] A forward, she saw little playing time during the season.[7] She played seven games for the Comets, averaging 1.4 points per game.[3]
On 28 January 2000, the Comets traded her to Portland Fire for Coquese Washington.[8] She never played for the Fire, and would play professional basketball in various European countries during her career, including in Spain, Poland, Russia, and France; she also played in South Korea.[9] Outside of the WNBA, she developed a reputation as a scorer, having led many competitions in scoring.[9] In 2000, she played professional basketball for WBC Ramat HaSharon of the EuroLeague Women competition. She then played the 2000–01 season for Lotos Gdyni.[10] In 2003, she played for Ros Casares.[11] She played for Serbia in the 2002–03 EuroCup Women tournament.[11] In 2003, she also played for Liga Femenina's CB Puig d'en Valls.[11] Her contract with the team was terminated in January 2004.[12]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 1999| style="text-align:left;"| Houston| 7 || 0 || 4.1 || .364|| .250 || .500 || .7|| .1 || .0 || .0 || .4 || 1.4|-| style="text-align:left;"| Career| style="text-align:left;"|1 year, 1 team| 7 || 0 || 4.1 || .364|| .250 || .500 || .7|| .1 || .0 || .0 || .4 || 1.4