NBA draft 2013 / Undrafted Weight 101 kg Listed weight 223 lb (101 kg) Height 2.03 m | Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Role Basketball player Nationality Serbian Name Nikola Kalinic | |
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League Turkish Basketball LeagueEuroleague Education Faculty of Sport and Tourism Parents Zoran Kalinic, Dragica Tosic Siblings Uros Kalinic, Mina Kalinic Similar Luka Mitrović, Boban Marjanović, Nemanja Bjelica Profiles | ||
Nikola Kalinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Калинић, born 8 November 1991) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketball Super League and the EuroLeague. He also represents the Serbian national basketball team internationally. He is a 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) tall Small forward.
Contents
- Nikola Kalini Valencia Basket 202021 Best Plays Highlights
- Professional career
- Serbian national team
- Career statistics
- Personal life
- References
Nikola Kalinić ● Valencia Basket ● 2020/21 Best Plays & Highlights
Professional career
He made his professional debut with his hometown team Spartak Subotica. In 2010–11 season he played with KK Novi Sad, and then from 2011 to 2013 with Vojvodina Srbijagas.
In July 2013 he signed a three-year contract with Radnički Kragujevac. Over 25 games in the ABA League, he averaged 6.4 points and 4 Rebounds per game.
On July 21, 2014, Kalinić signed a three-year contract with Crvena zvezda. In his debut EuroLeague season, he averaged 9.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2 Assists over 24 games. In his first season with the club he won the triple crown, winning the Serbian League, ABA League and Serbian Cup.
On July 31, 2015, Crvena zvezda announced that Kalinić moved to Fenerbahçe, for a buyout of 1 million euros. On August 12, 2015, Fenerbahçe officially announced that Kalinić signed a two-year contract with the option of an additional year.
In his first season with the team, Kalinić won the Turkish Cup, with a 67–65 win over Darüşşafaka. Fenerbahçe also reached the final game of the 2016 Euroleague Final Four, but fell short of winning the EuroLeague championship, after an overtime 96–101 loss to CSKA Moscow. Over 29 EuroLeague games, he averaged 4.6 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. At the end of the season, Fenerbahçe also won the Tukish League championship.
Serbian national team
Kalinić represented the Serbian national basketball team at the EuroBasket 2013. He was a member of the Serbian national basketball team that won the silver medal at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup under new head coach Aleksandar Đorđević.
He represented Serbia once again at the EuroBasket 2015. In the first phase of the tournament, Serbia dominated in the toughest Group B with 5-0 record, and then eliminated Finland and Czech Republic in the round of 16 and quarterfinal game, respectively. However, they were stopped in the semifinal game by Lithuania with 67–64, and eventually lost to the host team France in the bronze-medal game with 81–68. Over 9 tournament games, Kalinić averaged 5.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game on 69% shooting from the field and miserable 33.3% from the Free-throw line.
Career statistics
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.
Personal life
Nikola is the son of former table tennis player Zoran Kalinić (b. 1958), and Dragica (née Tošić), a former handball player. His older brother Uroš (b. 1986) is a water polo player for Montpellier, while his sister Mina also played handball. The children in the family all once played ping pong and went to tennis school.
Kalinić was injured to his chin during childhood, with surgery failing to fix it, leaving a visibly deformed chin. He has said that he suffers no pain from it.