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Peja Stojakovic,Krstic und Milicic haben gesagt das sie bei der Basketball Europameisterschaft 2007 in Spanien für Serbien antretten werden.
Stojakovic hat seit 2003 nicht mehr für das Nationalteam gespielt. Jetzt werden wir wirklich sehen ob der serbischen Basketball in einem tief ist oder die Erfolge nur ausblieben weil die besten nicht dabei waren..
Stojakovic, Krstic, Milicic to play for Serbia in EuroBasket
December 8, 2006
BELGRADE, SERBIA (TICKER) -- Good news has come in threes for Serbia, with NBA stars Peja Stojakovic, Nenad Krstic and Darko Milicic all confirming their intention to play in EuroBasket 2007.
Both Stojakovic and Krstic missed the FIBA World Championship this summer with a young Serbia & Montenegro side - competing as one for the final time - exiting at the round of 16 with a loss to eventual champion Spain.
But newly independent Serbia will be far stronger at next September's EuroBasket following the commitment from their leading players.
Orlando Magic center Milicic told the Sportska Centrala agency that he is "desperately waiting to play in the jersey of Serbia" next year, while adding that Dragan Sakota - who coached Serbia & Montenegro in Japan this summer - had told him Stojakovic also will travel.
"Sakota told us that Peja will be at EuroBasket 2007," said Milicic, the second overall draft selection in 2003. "It will be the first but also the last competition he'll participate in as a member of the Serbian national team."
Serbia's return to independence for the first time in 88 years has awoken new emotions in the nation's athletes, and the basketball players are no exception.
Stojakovic's return is not a complete surprise. The New Orleans Hornets forward stated his intention to play at EuroBasket when excusing himself from World Championship duty due to a knee problem.
However, there were no guarantees with Krstic, the New Jersey Nets starting center who agonized over whether to play in Japan but ultimately remained in the United States over the summer to concentrate on his NBA career.
Although the decision created doubts about his international future, Krstic has committed himself to the Serbian cause.
"It was hard for me not to be (in Japan) with my friends and teammates," he said. "I had a lot of doubts about whether to go to Japan or not, but that story is behind us now. From now on, I would like to be a member of Serbian national team."
The youngest player ever to appear in the NBA Finals, Milicic was the only member of the trio to play in Japan, but he has renewed enthusiasm about representing an independent Serbia.
"I don't have anything against the past, but since we changed our country's name to Serbia & Montenegro after the other Yugoslav republics got their independence, everything started to collapse in our basketball," he said, recalling Yugoslavia's back-to-back FIBA World Championship titles in 1998 and 2002. "We were sixth at EuroBasket 2003 and then second-last at the Olympics in Athens, and finally we crashed out of the European Championships in our own country and then this year in Japan.
"But now, with our old coat of arms and national anthem, forbidden during the Yugoslavia era, it will be different I'm sure."
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...v=st&type=lgns
Peja Stojakovic,Krstic und Milicic haben gesagt das sie bei der Basketball Europameisterschaft 2007 in Spanien für Serbien antretten werden.
Stojakovic hat seit 2003 nicht mehr für das Nationalteam gespielt. Jetzt werden wir wirklich sehen ob der serbischen Basketball in einem tief ist oder die Erfolge nur ausblieben weil die besten nicht dabei waren..
Stojakovic, Krstic, Milicic to play for Serbia in EuroBasket
December 8, 2006
BELGRADE, SERBIA (TICKER) -- Good news has come in threes for Serbia, with NBA stars Peja Stojakovic, Nenad Krstic and Darko Milicic all confirming their intention to play in EuroBasket 2007.
Both Stojakovic and Krstic missed the FIBA World Championship this summer with a young Serbia & Montenegro side - competing as one for the final time - exiting at the round of 16 with a loss to eventual champion Spain.
But newly independent Serbia will be far stronger at next September's EuroBasket following the commitment from their leading players.
Orlando Magic center Milicic told the Sportska Centrala agency that he is "desperately waiting to play in the jersey of Serbia" next year, while adding that Dragan Sakota - who coached Serbia & Montenegro in Japan this summer - had told him Stojakovic also will travel.
"Sakota told us that Peja will be at EuroBasket 2007," said Milicic, the second overall draft selection in 2003. "It will be the first but also the last competition he'll participate in as a member of the Serbian national team."
Serbia's return to independence for the first time in 88 years has awoken new emotions in the nation's athletes, and the basketball players are no exception.
Stojakovic's return is not a complete surprise. The New Orleans Hornets forward stated his intention to play at EuroBasket when excusing himself from World Championship duty due to a knee problem.
However, there were no guarantees with Krstic, the New Jersey Nets starting center who agonized over whether to play in Japan but ultimately remained in the United States over the summer to concentrate on his NBA career.
Although the decision created doubts about his international future, Krstic has committed himself to the Serbian cause.
"It was hard for me not to be (in Japan) with my friends and teammates," he said. "I had a lot of doubts about whether to go to Japan or not, but that story is behind us now. From now on, I would like to be a member of Serbian national team."
The youngest player ever to appear in the NBA Finals, Milicic was the only member of the trio to play in Japan, but he has renewed enthusiasm about representing an independent Serbia.
"I don't have anything against the past, but since we changed our country's name to Serbia & Montenegro after the other Yugoslav republics got their independence, everything started to collapse in our basketball," he said, recalling Yugoslavia's back-to-back FIBA World Championship titles in 1998 and 2002. "We were sixth at EuroBasket 2003 and then second-last at the Olympics in Athens, and finally we crashed out of the European Championships in our own country and then this year in Japan.
"But now, with our old coat of arms and national anthem, forbidden during the Yugoslavia era, it will be different I'm sure."
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...v=st&type=lgns
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