Arijan Komazec
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January 23, 1970 Zadar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Nationality | Croatian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 1992 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1986–2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard / Small forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1986–1992 | Zadar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Panathinaikos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Varese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Virtus Bologna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Varese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Olympiacos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Zadar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | AEK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Air Avellino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arijan Komazec (born January 23, 1970) is a retired Croatian professional basketball player.
Komazec started his professional career as a basketball player at the age of 16, in the historical club of Zadar, in the 1986–87 season. At the end of the previous season, Zadar had become champions of the Yugoslav League, and had the right to participate in the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague). Komazec made great performances, and led his team in the fourth place of the top 6 semifinal group stage. After six years in Zadar, where he became the absolute leader and scorer of his team, he made the big step in his career for the transcription of the Greek League (which was then the best in Europe) and Panathinaikos, of the head coach Željko Pavličević and the Greek superstar Nikos Galis. There he found an old acquaintance from years of Zadar, Stojko Vranković, who had just returned from the NBA.
In a year that began with ambitions to win the championship, for Panathinaikos and him also, won only the 1993 Greek Cup, in a final against Sato Aris. Komazec, although he did some excellent performances, did not respond satisfactorily to Panathinaikos, who was preparing to make the fling at European level, and in the summer he was loaned to Cagiva Varese, where he played the next two seasons (1993–94 in A2 & 1994–95 A1), and made impressive performances.
The impression that he made by his performance in Varese, caused Buckler Bologna, which was the dominant team of the Italian League the previous years, to buy his contract from Panathinaikos, and close a deal with him for the next two years, in an effort to replace the large void left in the team by Sašha Danilović leaving for the NBA's Miami Heat.
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