Bine Prepelič joins Dragons Family!

The senior team of Cedevita Olimpija was strengthened by the Slovenian national team member Bine Prepelič in the playing position of the Power Forward. The latter signed a two-year contract with the Ljubljana club.

Cedevita Olimpija continues the composition of the senior team before the start of the new competition season 2024/25. In the Power Forward playing position, the Slovenian team was strengthened by the Slovenian national team member Bine Prepelič, who signed a two-year contract with the club from Stožice. Prepelič is moving to the Slovenian capital from the Belgian Spirou Basket, where he spent the last two seasons.

“Bine Prepelič is part of a new generation of Slovenian national team players. We’re happy that he decided to join Cedevita Olimpija, as we feel, that our club can give him everything he needs to develop his game to a higher level. He has made improvement in his game in every season until now, and we’re going to be tracking his progress during the upcoming season. At the same time, we count on him to give us energy and toughness each minute his steps on the court in Cedevita Olimpija’s jersey,” said Sports Director of Cedevita Olimpija, Chechu Mulero.

“Bine Prepelič is a player in the Power Forward position and Slovenian national team player. By playing in the Belgian league, he has already gained some experience playing in the international arena. We expect good energy and attitude towards the game from him, and at the same time he has proven that he can progress with his game, which he also showed by playing for the national team. We expect that he will be of great help to us, that he will adapt to the team and that as a local player he will be a big factor in the upcoming season,” said the head coach of Cedevita Olimpija, Zvezdan Mitrović.

“I’m happy that I will be able to help the team to achieve the goals that we set. I can’t wait to meet everyone in the club, and esspecially the fans,” said Bine Prepelič upon joining Cedevita Olimpija.

Bine Prepelič started his career in Slovenska Bistrica, where he spent practically the entire period of the younger age categories, and for the member team of Bistrica he also played in the 3. SKL for two seasons. This was followed by a move to Kansai Helios Domžale, with whom he also signed his first professional contract in 2019. He spent a short period as a loan player of the Domžale team in Ljubljana’s Ilirija in the 2. SKL, and then gained experience in the Helios jersey in the NLB League ABA 2 and the Slovenian national championship.

In his final season in the second regional league, he played in 14 games, averaging 28.4 minutes on the floor while averaging 6.8 points and 8.1 rebounds per game. Before the start of the 2022/23 season, he moved to Spirou, where he played in 29 games in the 2023/24 season, averaging 8.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists.

He made his debut in the jersey of the Slovenian men’s national team in the qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup. He played three matches in the qualifiers, and with good performances he also earned a place in the national team that played in the 2023 World Cup. He played in eight games in the competition, averaging 4.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 0.9 assists. In 2024, Prepelič also played in two qualifying matches for EuroBasket 2025, and in the summer he was also included in the list of candidates for the Olympic qualifying tournament in Piraeus, where he ultimately did not travel.

Prepelič, otherwise a cousin of the Slovenian national team and former Cedevita Olimpija player Klemno Prepelič, was a member of the U18 national team in 2018, which won second place in Skopje at the European Championship of Division B, and in 2019 he was with the U18 national team at the European Championship of Division A won third place in Greece. In 2021, he took first place with the Slovenian under-20 national team at the Challenger in Heraklion, Greece.