Marko Simonović signs with Chicago Bulls

Young Montenegrin basketball player Marko Simonović, who has been playing for Mega Basket on loan as a Cedevita Olimpija basketball player since 2019, has signed a contract with the Chicago Bulls, who selected him as the 44^th pick in the NBA in 2020.

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.

In the season behind us, Simonović played in 24 games for Mega in the ABA League, and spent an average of 31.2 minutes on the floor. He scored 15.8 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists.

After Luka Šamanić, who was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2019 NBA League, in 2020, 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.