Arijan Komazec

Arijan Komazec
Personal information
Born	January 23, 1970 (age 54); Virtus Bologna
1997–1998	Varese
1998–1999	Olympiacos
1999–2000	Zadar
2001	AEK
2003–2004	Air Avellino
Career highlights and awards
	Italian Cup winner (1997); Italian Super Cup winner (1995); Italian League Top Scorer (1995); Greek Cup winner (1993); Greek League All-Star (1998); Greek All-Star Game MVP (1998); Croatian Cup winner (2000);
Men’s Basketball
Representing Yugoslavia
World Cup
EuroBasket
European Championship for Junior men
European Championship for Cadets
Representing Croatia
Olympic Games
World Cup
EuroBasket

Arijan Komazec (born January 23, 1970) is a former Croatian professional basketball player.

Professional career

Komazec started his professional career as a basketball player at the age of 16, in the historical club of

NBA

.

In a year that began with ambitions to win the championship, for Panathinaikos and him also, won only the

A2 & 1994–95 A1

), and made impressive performances.

The impression that he made by his performance in Varese, caused

NBA's Miami Heat. The Croatian star didn't succeed one more time to respond to the high demands of competitive sport at the top level, as he only won the smaller titles of the Italian Supercup in 1995, and the Italian Cup

in 1997. This failure brought him back again to Varese the next year (1997–98), where rediscovered his best self, and with a scoring recital, he led the Lombardy team to the playoffs semifinals in the Italian League, and on the course to a participation in the EuroLeague, for the first time 20 years.

In the summer of 1998, came the third and final chance for Komazec to make an important achievement in a great club of European basketball, as he agreed to play for head coach Dušan Ivković, at Olympiacos. Arijan began the season doing very well, and everything indicated that the experiment for the player and the club could end up in achieving something good at the end of the season, when the major club titles, both in Greece and in Europe were contested. But an injury put him off of the court for half a month, and he became substantially off in his playing form, throughout the remaining part of the season. His participation at the 1999 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four, in Munich, was the only one in his short and essentially failed time at Olympiacos.

In the next season (1999–00), he returned to his roots, and he quite unexpectedly was joined in Zadar by Dino Rađa. Together, the duo led the Dalmatian club to the semifinals of the FIBA Saporta Cup, where they lost to the Greek club AEK. They won the Croatian Cup in the same season, which marked the last success of his career.

He was briefly a part of the

NBA team the Vancouver Grizzlies, during the 2000–01 season

, but he only spent one month with the team, and he did not play in any official NBA games with them.

National team career

Komazec was a member of the senior

1991 EuroBasket

.

Komazec was also a member of the senior

1995 EuroBasket

.

Personal life

His father is Milan Komazec, a former basketball player who won three

Yugoslav First League championships (1965, 1967, and 1968) with Zadar. His uncle is Petar Popović, a former basketball player. His first-cousin is Alan Gregov, a former basketball player.^[1]

References

^ "Zadarska sporstska dinastija". KOŠ (5). February 1990. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

External links

[1] "Zadarska sporstska dinastija". KOŠ (5). February 1990. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

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