Basketball player Goran Dragic: biography, career

Goran Dragic is a basketball player, who was noted for his performances for the teams "San Antonio Spurs", "Phoenix Suns" and "Miami Heat". Equally effectively acts both in defense and in the attack line. The main advantage of the player is skillful possession of the ball. Goran Dragic has an excellent instinct for choosing an optimal position on the site. In general, the basketball player is able to make a good competition to any attacker in the defensive line of his own team.

early years

Goran Dragic was born in the Slovenian city of Ljubljana on May 6, 1986. Since childhood, I dreamed of repeating the sports success of my father, who was a successful football player. However, a serious leg injury, received before adulthood, did not allow the fulfillment of the cherished desire.

The way out of the situation for Draghic was basketball, to which he was introduced by school friends. The game so pleased Goran that the guy began to regularly watch NBA games on TV. Sometimes the boy would wake up at 3 am to enjoy fights of the best overseas teams.

At the beginning of his professional career, Goran Dragic, whose growth was 193 cm with a weight of 81 kg, held the position of an easy striker in several amateur groups. The first serious club of young talent was the team "Iliria", which performed in the second league of the championship of Slovenia. Then followed the transition to "Slovan", which occupied the leading positions in the country's top division.

The peak of the European career for the player was the transfer to the Spanish "Murcia". The contract was issued in 2006. In 2007, Goran Dragic returned home, having played a full season for the club "Olympia". The result of a year's performance for the new team was the conquest of the first champion title in a professional career.

Career in the NBA

In 2008, Goran Dragić decided to nominate his own candidate for the draft to the clubs of the National Basketball Association. According to the results of the event, the promising basketball player was in the "San Antonio Spurs". However, not having played a full season, Goran was in another NBA club - "Phoenix Suns". Here for several seasons in a row Dragic had to play the role of substitution for one of the old-timers of the team - Steve Nash.

The star hour of the young player came in 2010, when he was on the site in the third semifinal match of the Western Conference, in which the "Sans" fought against Goran's former club from San Antonio. During the fight, the defender managed to hit the opponent's ring 26 times. And 23 points Dragic brought in a piggy bank own team in the decisive fourth quarter. Thus, thanks to the actions of the newcomer, "Phoenix" managed to overcome the barrier in the form of one of the most irreconcilable rivals and advance on the grid of the competition.

From 2009 to 2015, Goran Dragic played 388 fights for Sanse, which scored an average of 20.3 points per game, performed 5.9 assists and 2.8 rebounds. In the current season, the basketball player protects the colors of his new club, "Miami Heat."

National team appearances

In 2004, Goran Dragic was invited to the Slovenian youth team, in which he won the gold medal of the European Youth Championship. For the adult team of the country the basketball player invariably performed from 2006 to 2010. Participated in the World Cup 2006 and the European Championships in 2007 and 2009.