Nikola Vucevic

Nikola Vučević (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Никола Вучевић; pronounced [nǐkɔla ʋûːtʃɛʋitɕ]; born 24 October 1990) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of Southern California before being drafted 16th overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. He received his first All-Star selection in 2019.\n', ' Vučević was born in Morges, Switzerland during the time his professional basketball player father, Borislav, played for a club based in nearby Lausanne. The youngster was primarily raised in Belgium where the family moved in 1994 when his father got a professional contract there. Borislav Vučević played professionally for 24 years, a journeyman career that included stops in Yugoslavia, Switzerland, and Belgium, and was a member of the KK Bosna team that won the European Champions Cup in 1979 in addition to several appearances for the Yugoslavia national team, primarily at the 1983 Mediterranean Games in Casablanca, Morocco. Vučević\'s mother, Ljiljana, was a 6-foot-2 forward for the Sarajevo club Željezničar, as well as for the Yugoslavia women\'s national team. His family moved to Montenegro when he was a teenager. \n', ' In 2007, fifteen-year-old Vučević was named Montenegro\'s Best Young Player. He speaks Serbian, English and French.\n', '