Sasa Djordjevic
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Aleksandar "Saša" Đorđević (Sasha Djordjevic) (Serbian: Александар "Саша" Ђорђевић) (born August 26, 1967, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He is 1.88 m (6'2") and has played 108 games for the national basketball teams of Yugoslavia and Serbia.
Djordjevic started his basketball career in the IX-th Gymnasium (high school) in Belgrade, where he was a part of the high school basketball team that won the city tournament in 1986.
Professionally, Djordjevic played for KK Partizan, Philips Milano a.k.a. Recoaro Milano (1992-94), Filodoro Bologna a.k.a. Teamsystem Bologna (1994-96), Portland Trail Blazers (1996, 8 games, 25 points scored), Barcelona, Real Madrid, Scavolini Pesaro (2003-05) and Armani Jeans Milano (2005).
Some of the honors Djordjevic has won as a senior player are:
- Yugoslavia League — 1987, 1992
- Yugoslavia Cup — 1989, 1992
- European Cup — 1992
- Spanish League — 1997, 2000
- Radivoj Korać Cup — 1989, 1993, 1999
- Olympic Games silver medal — 1996
- FIBA World Championships gold medal — 1998,
- Eurobasket: gold medal (1991, 1995, 1997); bronze medal (1987)
The last-second three-point shots he made in the European Cup final (for Partizan), and in the match against Croatia (for Serbia), decided the winner, and Đorđević is mostly remembered because of them.
He is one of the ambassadors of good will, one of the founders of humanitarian organization Group Seven Children's Foundation, and the president of the Belgrade Marathon.
He retired from professional basketball on July 3, 2005 with an exhibition game before a home crowd in Belgrade, in which many of his teammates and once-fierce opponents took part.
On January 25, 2006, Djordjevic was named head coach of one of his former teams, Armani Jeans Milano, a position he left at the end of the 2006-07 season. He has dual citizenship; Serbian and Spanish.
