Nenad Vučinić

Nenad Vučinić
Personal information
Born (1965-04-07) April 7, 1965
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian / New Zealand
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight 196 lb (89 kg)
Career information
Playing career 1983–2000
Position Small forward
Coaching career 1996–present
Career history
As player:
0000 BASK
0000 Radnički Belgrade
1987–1989 Slavonka Osijek
1989–2000 Nelson Giants
As coach:
1996–2001 Nelson Giants
2001–2006 New Zealand (assistant)
2002–2003 OKK Beograd
2004–2007 Nelson Giants
2006–2014 New Zealand
2008–2010 Kalev/Cramo
2010–2011 Darüşşafaka S.K.
2011–2012 Fulgor Libertas Forlì
2012–2013 Fujian Xunxing
2014–present Byblos Club
Career highlights and awards

As player:

As coach:

Nenad Vučinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Вучинић; born April 7, 1965) is a Serbian-New Zealand basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as a head coach for the Byblos Club of the Lebanese Basketball League.

Playing career

As a player, he grew in the youth side of Partizan Belgrade. He played for BASK, Radnički, Kolubara and Slavonka Osijek before flying to New Zealand in 1989 with his wife.[1] There he played for the Nelson Giants of the New Zealand NBL. As a player, Vučinić was voted to the NBL All-Star Five in 1990.

Coaching career

He is the former head coach of New Zealand men's national basketball team the Tall Blacks. He was also the head coach for Fulgor Libertas Forlì in the Italian second league (Legadue), and for BC Kalev/Cramo, a professional basketball club based in Tallinn, Estonia which participates in Korvpalli Meistriliiga, Baltic Basketball League and VTB United League.

He has won five NBL Coach of the Year titles while guiding Nelson to two titles in 1998 and 2007. He stood down as Giants coach after their most recent success and still holds the record for most NBL coaching wins (164). After six years as an assistant coach, he took over the Tall Blacks reins in 2007, taking them to victory over Australia in the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship and into the last 16 at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.[2]

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