Bojan Popović (; born February 13, 1983) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He also represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally. He is a 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall point guard.
Professional career Popović is a product of the FMP's youth system. After spending four years as a professional at the club from Belgrade's suburb of Železnik, winning one Serbian Cup and Adriatic League trophy, he signed a contract with Russian PBL team Dynamo Moscow.Bojan Popović u Dinamu iz Moskve His good performances led the team to the Euroleague quarterfinals, where they lost to Panathinaikos, which eventually won the cup.
Next season Bojan signed with ACB and Euroleague team Unicaja Malaga and a season later he stayed in Spain, playing for San Sebastian Bruesa.
In summer 2009, Popović signed with Lithuanian club Lietuvos rytas. On November 2, 2009, Popovic won the Euroleague MVP of the Month award for the month of October.Euroleague October MVP: Bojan Popovic, Lietuvos Rytas Despite his good performances, Lietuvos rytas failed to qualify to the Top 16 and was eliminated from the Euroleague for that season. Nonetheless his abilities earned him a contract with Regular Season Group B rivals Efes Pilsen,Efes Pilsen tabs October MVP Popovic but he failed to accomplish his early year performance at the Top 16.
On 25 August 2010, Popovic signed a one-year contract with KK Partizan.Partizan tabs veteran guard Popovic However, Partizan broke the contract only 20 days after signing it, because "he did not fit in the concept of playing".Partizan mt:s releases Popovic On November 22, 2010 he signed a three-month contract with Cajasol Sevilla in Spain.Cajasol retools with Popovic at point In March 2011 he signed with Meridiano Alicante until the end of the season.Popovic se para en Alicante
On October 12, 2011 he signed a one-year contract with Crvena zvezda.Bojan Popović u crveno-belom He finished the year with averages of 7 points and 3.5 assists in the Adriatic league.
In January 2013 he signed with Bulgarian team PBC Lukoil Academic until the end of season.Bojan Popović potpisao za Lukoil In January 2014, he signed with the Romanian team CSU Asesoft Ploieşti for the rest of the season.Bojan Popovic, noul transfer al lui Asesoft Ploiești
In February 2015, he signed with Trefl Sopot of the Polish Basketball League.Trefl Sopot inks Bojan Popovic
Serbian national team Popović has also been a member of the senior men's Serbian national team. He played at the EuroBasket 2009, where he won the silver medal.
Euroleague career statistics
| style="text-align:left;"| 2006–07 | style="text-align:left;"| Dynamo Moscow | 22 || 22 || 25.5 || .444 || .271 || .839 || 2.9 || 1.9 || 1.7 || .0 || 10.7 || 12.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2007–08 | style="text-align:left;"| Unicaja Málaga | 20 || 5 || 15.4 || .275 || .303 || .863 || 1.7 || 1.5 || .5 || .0 || 3.6 || 3.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos rytas | 10 || 9 || 32.0 || .353 || .265 || .833 || 2.4 || 5.4 || 2.4 || .2 || 11.2 || 13.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;"| Efes Pilsen | 6 || 0 || 13.1 || .500 || .000 || .889 || 2 || 1.3 || .6 || .0 || 3.3 || 4.8
See also List of Serbia men's national basketball team players
References
External links at abaliga.com Bojan Popović at acb.com Bojan Popović at eurobasket.com Bojan Popović at euroleague.net Bojan Popović at fiba.com