Slaviša Koprivica | |
Height M: | 2.06 |
Weight Kg: | 115 |
Birth Date: | 17 June 1968 |
Birth Place: | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Nationality: | Serbian |
Draft Year: | 1990 |
Career Start: | 1985 |
Career End: | 2003, 2007–2008 |
Career Position: | Power forward / center |
Career Number: | 13 |
Years1: | 1985–1987 |
Team1: | Partizan |
Years2: | 1987–1989 |
Team2: | OKK Beograd |
Years3: | 1989–1991 |
Years4: | 1991–1993 |
Team4: | Partizan |
Years5: | 1993–1994 |
Years6: | 1994–1995 |
Team6: | Brescialat Gorizia |
Years7: | 1996–1997 |
Years8: | 1997–1998 |
Team8: | Partizan |
Years9: | 1998–1999 |
Team9: | Znicz Pruszków |
Years10: | 2000–2001 |
Team10: | Szolnoki Olaj |
Years11: | 2002 |
Team11: | EvrAz |
Years12: | 2002–2003 |
Team12: | Cherno More Varna |
Years13: | 2007–2008 |
Team13: | Superfund |
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Slaviša "Slavko" Koprivica (Serbian: Славиша "Славко" Копривица, born 17 June 1968) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He played at both the power forward and center positions.
While playing with Partizan Belgrade, Koprivica won the EuroLeague championship, in 1992.[1]
Koprivica's son Balša (born 2000), played high school basketball in the United States. Balša won the 2017 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, and he was considered to be one of the top ten college recruits in the Class of 2019.[2]
Koprivica and Miroslav Pecarski played together on the junior Yugoslav national team, and they won a gold medal at the 1987 FIBA Under-19 World Cup. Thirty years later, their sons Balša Koprivica and Marko Pecarski, played together for Serbia's junior national team;[3] and they won a gold medal at the 2017 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.