Mačvan warming-up for Serbia in 2011
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No. 13 – EA7 Emporio Armani Milano | |
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Position | Power forward |
League |
LBA EuroLeague |
Personal information | |
Born |
Vukovar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
November 16, 1989
Nationality | Serbian |
Listed height | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) |
Listed weight | 106.6 kg (235 lb) |
Career information | |
NBA draft | 2011 / Round: 2 / Pick: 54th overall |
Selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers | |
Playing career | 2007–present |
Career history | |
2006–2007 | FMP |
2007–2010 | Hemofarm |
2010–2012 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
2011–2012 | → Partizan |
2012–2014 | Galatasaray |
2014–2015 | Partizan |
2015–present | Emporio Armani Milano |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Milan Mačvan (Serbian: Милан Мачван, born November 16, 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Emporio Armani Milano of the Italian LBA and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in), he plays at the power forward position. He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2011 NBA Draft at the 54th pick. He is also a member of the Serbia national basketball team.
Mačvan started turning heads before even starting his senior club career by playing in junior and cadet European and World championships as part of the Serbian national team.
After passing through different youth levels at KK FMP, he began his senior career at the club in fall 2007, ahead of the 2007–08 season under head coach Vlada Vukoičić. He appeared in five Adriatic League games for them before transferring to KK Hemofarm in mid-December 2007.
Mačvan did not have a professional contract during his time at Železnik due to being underage; however when he turned 18 in November 2007, he got the option of signing one and somewhat surprisingly chose to do so with rival KK Hemofarm, which paid Železnik €150,000 for his services. The biggest reason behind his decision to sign with Hemofarm rather than remain with Železnik lay in the fact that Hemofarm's head coach Miroslav Nikolić also coached Mačvan in the Serbian Under-19 team that won the FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2007 that summer. A couple of months later Nikolić resigned his post at Hemofarm after a string of poor results, and the club brought in Vlada Vukoičić, Mačvan's coach at Železnik, who got fired there in the meantime.