Ognjen Jaramaz joins Cedevita Olimpija!

Serbian national team member, 30-year-old Ognjen Jaramaz, has joined Cedevita Olimpija’s senior team. After wearing the jersey of Perspektiva Ilirija in the 2025/26 season, Jaramaz brings with him to Stožice experience from playing in the EuroLeague and the EuroCup.

On the perimeter positions, Cedevita Olimpija’s senior lineup was strengthened ahead of the continuation of the 2025/26 competitive season by the 30-year-old, 192-centimeter-tall Ognjen Jaramaz, who joins the Dragon family after wearing the jersey of Ljubljana’s Perspektiva Ilirija this season. In his career, Jaramaz has spent four seasons in the elite EuroLeague, during which he wore the jerseys of Bayern, Partizan, and Baskonia, and he also played two seasons in the EuroCup with Partizan. In this cycle of World Cup Qualifiers, he will also be part of the Serbian national team, which is facing matchups against Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“It is no secret that we were looking for reinforcement on the perimeter positions, and we found it in Ognjen Jaramaz. Jaramaz is a player who brings experience from playing at the highest level in Europe to our team, and we are also pleased by the fact that he has played very well for Ilirija recently. After Jaramaz returns from national team duty, he will begin integrating and getting to know our system of play, and we are happy that he has joined us and will be part of our team,” said Cedevita Olimpija’s sporting director, Chechu Mulero, upon signing the contract with Jaramaz.

“Ognjen Jaramaz represents reinforcement on the perimeter positions, as he possesses quality and experience. Jaramaz has been a desire of our club for many years, and we are pleased that we have managed to bring him to Ljubljana,” said the head coach of the Dragons’ senior team, Zvezdan Mitrović, upon signing the contract with the new player.

“I am very pleased to be part of Cedevita Olimpija. I can’t wait to join the rest of the guys and the entire team in training. The team has been playing very well so far this season. I believe I will fit in quickly and that we will continue in the same rhythm. I’m looking forward to everything that lies ahead,” said Ognjen Jaramaz upon signing his contract with Cedevita Olimpija.

Ognjen Jaramaz began his professional career with Mega from Belgrade, for which he also played in the ABA League in the 2014/15 season, and he gained his first international experience in the 2018/19 season in Spain, where he wore the jersey of San Pablo Burgos. That same season, he returned to Serbia, where he put on the Partizan jersey. He remained with the Black-and-Whites until 2021, when he moved to Bayern Basketball, and in the 2023/24 season he returned to Partizan. He spent the 2024/25 season with Baskonia, and then in the 2025/26 season he played for Ilirija, which he joined at the end of October. In the EuroLeague, Jaramaz has played a total of 105 games, and so far 26 in the EuroCup. Jaramaz can also boast three Serbian Cup titles and the 2019 ABA League Supercup title. In 2017, he was also selected in the NBA Draft by the New York Knicks as the 58th overall pick.

He wore the jersey of the Serbian senior national team at EuroBasket 2022, where he played in six games and averaged 6.3 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, as well as in the 2019 World Cup Qualifiers, EuroBasket 2022 and 2025 Qualifiers, and the 2023 World Cup Qualifiers. With the Serbian U20 national team, he won two medals – gold in 2015 in Italy, and a year earlier bronze in Greece.

In the 2025/26 season, he appeared in four games of the AdmiralBet ABA League for Ilirija – he spent an average of 29.0 minutes on the court, during which he averaged 11.0 points, 5.5 assists, and 3.0 rebounds per game.