Chicago picks Marko Simonović

On Wednesday, the NBA Draft took place in the United States, in which the talented basketball player of Cedevita Olimpija, who is training at Mega Soccerbet, Marko Simonović, also took part. He was selected 44th in a row by the Chicago Bulls.

In the 2020/21 competition season, Montenegrin basketball player Marko Simonović is playing exceptionally well. He spends his second season in the jersey of Belgrade’s Mega Soccerbet, as a loan player for Cedevita Olimpija, and in the ABA League he averages 16.3 points, 9.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 0.7 blocks per game after seven games.

Marko showed his best performance of the season in the first round of the competition, when he added 13 points and 13 rebounds against Igokea. It should be added that Simonović is throwing 41.1% for three points and 58.5% for two this season of the ABA League.

Marko Simonović came to Ljubljana before the start of the 2018/19 competition season. He spent the opening weeks of the season in Roseta, Italy, and then moved to the Slovenian capital, where the talented 210-centimeter-tall Montenegrin proved in his first season that he is an extremely talented player who will be one of the best European players in the future. basketball players.

After Luka Šamanić, who was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2019 NBA League, Simonović was the first Cedevita Olimpija basketball player to be selected, while Simonović joined Šamanić and Issuf Sanon among the selected players in the ‘draft’, together with him in the 2018/19 season formed the most talented basketball trio in Europe.