Budućnost
They won the title in the last season so they will play in the Euroleague in this season. And their team seems even better than in the last year.
Key players from the last season, guards Nemanja Gordic(MVP of the finals) and Nikola Ivanovic(he recently had 30 points, 6 assists game for the Montenegro national team in the win vs Ukraine) are still in the club. Half of the Montenegro national team is made of Budućnost players.
Justin Doellman, Kyle Gibson and Kyle Landry left the club, but they weren't that important anyway. New signings should make this team decent even for the Euroleague level:
Coty Taylor Clarke (Avtodor Saratov)
Edwin Jackson (Barcelona)
Earl Clark (Besiktas)
Aaron Craft (AS Monaco)
Crvena Zvezda
After disappointing defeat in the last season finals, they have a pretty much new team for this year.
Key players left the club: Taylor Rochestie, Mathias Lessort, James Feldeine etc., but there are some exciting names among their new signings:
- Maik Zirbes(return)
- Stratos Perperoglou
- Mouhammad Faye
- Joe Ragland
- Billy Baron
- Dusan Ristic
Cedevita
They really changed a lot. They have a new coach Sito Alonso, instead of Jure Zdovc.
Musa is now in the NBA, and also guys like Roko Leni Ukic, Marko Arapovic, Demetris Nichols, Will Cherry are not with the club anymore.
New players: Elgin Cook(MHP Riesen), Vitor Benite(Murcia), Josh Magette(Atlanta Hawks), Justin Cobbs(Le Mans), Augusto Lima(Murcia), James Bell(Darussafaka), Pablo Aguilar(Gran Canaria), Domagoj Bosnjak(Cibona), Andrija Coric(Cibona).
Partizan
They actually have interesting roster for this year.
Williams-Goss moved to Olympiacos, but they signed: Aleksej Nikolic(won the gold with the Slovenian national team), Marcus Paige(some NBA experience), Rade Zagorac(35th pick in 2016), Australian Jock Landale, Bosnian Amar Gegic. Young guards Vanja Marinkovic and Aleksandar Aranitovic are still with the club, as well as veteran power forward Novica Velickovic.
Olimpija
Devin Oliver and Jordan Morgan left the club and both signed for Banvit. Gregor Hrovat signed for Medi Bayreuth.
They signed well known Croatian prospect Luka Samanic and well known Montenegrin prospect Marko Simonovic. Blaz Mesicek returned to the club, and they have some more Slovenian national team players. Bosnian Aleksandar Lazic also returned to the club. Ukranian prospect Issuf Sanon should have more important role in this year.
A lot of talent in this team.
Mega
Ognjen Jaramaz is the most significant loss(signed for Burgos).
New signings: Branislav Ratkovica, Dejan Janic, French prospect Adam Mokoka and German prospect Filip Stanic.
Quality young players like Kostja Mushidi, Goga Bitadze, Nikola Miskovic are still in the team. Club policy is still the same(they want to develop and sell players more than just win games).
Cibona
New coach is Ivan Velic instead of Ante Nazor.
Veterans Marko Tomas and Luka Zoric left the club.
Young Nik Slavica and experienced Damir Markota returned to the club from Cedevita. Australian Dominic Gilbert will stay with the club for the another season, and they signed American Brandis Raley-Ross from the Mornar. Marko Ljubicic came from Igokea.
Igokea
Nenad Trajkovic is their new coach.
They signed a lot of experienced players like: Sava Lesic, Domen Lorbek, Filip Adamovic, Tomislav Zubcic. They also signed Trey Kell, Jimmy Gavin and well known name Orlando Johnson(but I don't think he will stay for a long, Igokea have good connections and habit to bring really big names in their team, but just for like couple of weeks before they get a bigger offer, in the past even players like Dorell Wright or Billy Preston played for Igokea for some time).
Veteran Vuk Radivojevic is still there, as well as captain of the Serbian U18 golden team Dalibor Ilic, center Robert Rikic too.
Mornar
Their main star Derek Needham(who plays for the Montenegro as naturalised player) left the club and signed for Monaco.
Uros Lukovic and Nemanja Vranjes who are really above average players for Adriatic league level are still with the club. They signed:
- Khadeen Carrington(Seton Hall)
- Winston Shepard(Canterbury Rams)
- Andre Spight(Northern Colorado)
- Bronson Koenig(Grand Rapids Drive)
- Djordje Drenovac(Mitteldeutscher BC)
- Marin Mornar(Boras)
Zadar
Ales Pipan is their new coach instead of Aramis Naglic.
They signed: Petar Maric(Zabok), Mario Little(Pesaro), Malcolm Grant(Astana).
Krka
Slovenian national team player Ziga Dimec left the club(now in the Medi Bayreuth).
They signed: Jure Lalic(MZT Skopje), Jure Balazic(Gaziantep), Luka Lapornik(Steaua).
FMP
There isn't much to say about this Crvena Zvezda affiliate team.
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