Marko Todorović (basketball)

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Marko Todorović
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Todorović in warm-ups with Barcelona.
No. 19 – Bilbao Basket
Position Power forward / Center
League Liga ACB
Personal information
Born (1992-04-19) April 19, 1992 (age 32)
Podgorica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Montenegrin
Listed height 6 ft 10.75 in (2.10 m)
Listed weight 245 lb (111 kg)
Career information
NBA draft 2013 / Round: 2 / Pick: 45th overall
Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers
Playing career 2010–present
Career history
2010–2012 Joventut Badalona
2010–2012 Prat Joventut
2012–2015 FC Barcelona
2014–2015 Bilbao Basket
2015–present Khimki
2016–present →Bilbao Basket
Career highlights and awards

Marko Todorović (Cyrillic: Марко Тодоровић; born April 19, 1992) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for Bilbao Basket of the Liga ACB on loan from Khimki of the VTB United League. He is a 6 ft 10¾ in (2.10 m) tall power forward-center.

Professional career

Europe

Todorović played basketball at the junior level with the youth teams of KK Joker in Montenegro and Joventut Badalona in Spain. He played with Joventut Badalona's second team, Prat Joventut, in the Spanish 3rd Division, from 2010 to 2012. He also played with the senior men's team of Joventut Badalona, in the Spanish ACB League, from 2011 to 2012.

Todorović joined Barcelona Bàsquet before the start of the 2012–13 season.[1]

For the 2014–15 ACB season, Todorović was loaned from FC Barcelona to Bilbao Basket.[2] He was named ACB Player of the Month on March 31, 2015.[3]

On July 14, 2015, Todorović signed a three-year contract with the Russian club Khimki.[4] On April 1, 2016, he was, again, loaned to Bilbao Basket for the rest of the 2015–16 season.[5]

NBA

On June 27, 2013, Todorović was drafted 45th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association.[6] On July 10, 2013, the Trail Blazers traded his rights to the Houston Rockets as part of a trade for Thomas Robinson.[7]

Montenegrin national team

Todorović was a member of the junior national teams of Montenegro. He played at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

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