Arijan Komazec
Arijan Komazec (born January 23, 1970) is a retired Croatian basketball player.
Career
National team
He was a member of the Yugoslavian national team (1990–92) and then the Croatian national team. He was a part of the Croatian teams that won Silver at the 1992 Olympics, and Bronze at Eurobasket 1993 and 1995.
Club
He also won the Greek Cup in 1993 with Panathinaikos. With Virtus Bologna (then under name Kinder) he won the Italian Supercup in 1996 and Italian Cup in 1997. With Zadar he won the Krešimir Ćosić Cup in 2000. He has played in the 1999 Euroleague Final four with Olympiacos.
He was briefly part of the Vancouver Grizzlies, an NBA team from the 2000-2001 season, but he has only spent one month with the team and has not played in any NBA games, and he has since kept to European teams.
Personal life
His mother hails from Kraljevo, in Serbia. His maternal uncle is Petar Popović, the Yugoslav basketball legend. Komazec himself claimed in a Radio interview in Zadar after an incident during a game between Zadar and Partizan in which Zadar fans scanted that he was Serb after he allegedly applaused Partizan, that his paternal family was originally surnamed Komazet, and is of German origin, despite the fact that the Komazec are ethnic Serbs of Dalmatia, Orthodox Christians, that settled during the Great Serb Migrations. His maternal cousin is Marko Popović.[1]
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