Milan Mačvan

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Milan Mačvan (born November 16, 1989 in Vukovar, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian basketball player. Currently playing for KK Hemofarm of the Serbian league, he is one of the more notable European prospects at the moment.^[1]

He started turning heads before even starting his senior club career by playing in junior and cadet European and World championships as part of the Serbian national team.

After passing through different youth levels at KK Železnik, he began his senior career at the club in fall 2007, ahead of the 2007/08 season under head coach Vlada Vukoičić. He appeared in five Adriatic League games for them before transferring to KK Hemofarm in mid December 2007. Mačvan did not have a professional contract during his time at Železnik due to being underage, however when he turned eighteen in November 2007, he got the option of signing one and somewhat surprisingly chose to do so with rival KK Hemofarm, which paid Železnik €150,000 for his services.^[2] The biggest reason behind his decision to sign with Hemofarm rather than remain with Železnik lay in the fact that Hemofarm's head coach Miroslav Nikolić also coached Mačvan in the Serbian u-19 team that won the World championship that summer.^[3] In a strange twist of fate, couple of months later Nikolić resigned his post at Hemofarm after a string of poor results, and the club brought in Vlada Vukoičić, Mačvan's coach at Železnik who got fired there in the meantime.