.jpg) Aleksandrov, first from the right, playing with Olimpija in December 2009. | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 April 1987 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 231 lb (105 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2009: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2002–2020 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Power forward / small forward | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | FMP | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Crvena zvezda | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Olimpija Ljubljana | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | VL Pesaro | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Verviers-Pepinster | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Manresa | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Oldenburg | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Gaziantep | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Eisbären Bremerhaven | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Craiova | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Jászberényi | ||||||||||||||
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Nemanja Aleksandrov (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Александров, born 10 April 1987) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally. Standing at the height of 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in), he played at the power forward and small forward positions.
Aleksandrov started his professional basketball career with FMP Železnik in 2002–03 season. At the time, he was considered a big international talent, even declaring for the 2005 NBA draft,[1] but then withdrew his name to due to ACL injury. He stayed with FMP Železnik until the end of 2005–06 season.
For the 2006–07 season, Aleksandrov signed a contract with Crvena zvezda, where he stayed for three seasons.
He signed with Union Olimpija the summer of 2009. After just a year in Slovenia he left Union because of unpaid salary,[2] so he signed a one-year contract with option to extend with the Italian team Scavolini Pesaro.[3] He spent the whole 2011–12 season working individually with Nenad Trajković.
On 12 August 2012, Aleksandrov signed with the Belgian team Verviers-Pepinster.[4][5] In March 2013, he left Pepinster and signed with the Spanish club Bàsquet Manresa for the rest of the season.[6]
In July 2013, German team EWE Baskets Oldenburg announced that they had signed Aleksandrov for two years.[7] On 8 July 2015, he signed a one-year extension with the club.[8]
On 13 October 2016, Aleksandrov signed with the Turkish team Gaziantep Basketbol.[9] On 20 December 2016 he returned to Germany, signing with Basketball-Bundesliga outfit Eisbären Bremerhaven for the rest of the 2016–17 season.[10]
Aleksandrov won gold with Serbia and Montenegro national under-16 basketball team along with the tournament MVP award at the 2003 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, after averaging 20.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.3 assist over 8 tournament games. In the same year, Aleksandrov received the "young athlete of the year" distinction in Serbia and Montenegro.[citation needed] At the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, he averaged 16.5 points and 9 rebounds over 13 tournament games, with Serbia and Montenegro national under-18 basketball team finishing the competition in fifth place.
He played with the senior Serbian national basketball team at the EuroBasket 2007, where in limited role he appeared in three group games in which Serbia was elimintated from the competition.
