Slaviša Koprivica

Serbian basketball player

Slaviša Koprivica

Personal information

Born

(1968-06-17) 17 June 1968 (age 55)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia

Nationality

Serbian

Listed height

2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)

Listed weight

115 kg (254 lb)

Career information

NBA draft

1990: undrafted

Playing career

1985–2003, 2007–2008

Position

Power forward / center

Number

Career history

1985–1987

Partizan

1987–1989

OKK Beograd

1989–1991

IMT Beograd

1991–1993

Partizan

1993–1994

Pagrati

1994–1995

Brescialat Gorizia

1996–1997

Beobanka

1997–1998

Partizan

1998–1999

Znicz Pruszków

2000–2001

Szolnoki Olaj

2002

EvrAz

2002–2003

Cherno More Varna

2007–2008

Superfund

Career highlights and awards

EuroLeague champion (1992)
2× Yugoslav League champion (1987, 1992)
Yugoslav Cup winner (1992)
Polish Cup winner (1999)

Medals

Men's basketball

Representing Yugoslavia
Under-19 World Cup
	1987 Italy	Under-19
European Championship for Cadets
	1985 Bulgaria	Under-16

Slaviša "Slavko" Koprivica (Serbian Cyrillic: Славиша "Славко" Копривица, born 17 June 1968) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He played at both the power forward and center positions.

Professional career

While playing with Partizan Belgrade, Koprivica won the EuroLeague championship, in 1992.^[1]

Personal life

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.

References

^ "Euroleague Final Four 1992". Euroleague.net. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
^ "Dominant 7ft1 Balsa Koprivica Flashes Skills! Top 2019 Center". ballislife.com. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
^ "Koprivica-Pecarski, 30 godina kasnije" (in Serbian). kosmagazin.com. Retrieved August 12, 2015.