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Position | Small forward / Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||
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ABA League Basketball League of Serbia Champions League |
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Born |
Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia |
August 12, 1995 |||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2016 / Round: 2 / Pick: 35th overall | |||||||||||||||||||||
Selected by the Boston Celtics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2012–present | |||||||||||||||||||||
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2012–present | Mega Leks | |||||||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | → Smederevo 1953 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rade Zagorac (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Загорац, born 12 August 1995) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Mega Leks of the Basketball League of Serbia. Standing at 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in), he plays at the small forward position.
Zagorac began his professional career with Mega Vizura starting with 2012–13 season. He spent the 2013–14 season on loan to Smederevo 1953.
He returned to Mega for the 2014–15 season. In April 2015, he declared himself eligible for the 2015 NBA draft, only to withdraw later.
On October 1, 2015, in the Round 1 game of the Adriatic League against Crvena zvezda, he broke his left arm. He returned to the court on January 17, in a game against Tajfun. Until the end of the season he played a total of 13 Adriatic League games, averaging 13.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. Mega Leks made it to the Finals where it lost to Crvena zvezda.
On June 23, 2016, Zagorac was selected in the NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics (2nd round, 35th overall). His draft rights were later traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for a future first round pick.
On July 2, 2016, Zagorac signed a new two-year contract with Mega Leks.
Zagorac won gold medal at the 2012 FIBA 3x3 Under-18 World Championships representing Serbia national 3x3 under-18 team together with Luka Anđušić, Miloš Janković, and Mihajlo Andrić.