Slaven Rimac

Slaven Rimac
Cedevita Zagreb
Position Head coach
League Croatian League
Personal information
Born (1974-12-19) December 19, 1974
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Listed height 6 ft 4.75 in (1.95 m)
Listed weight 200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
NBA draft 1996 / Undrafted
Playing career 1989–2012
Position Shooting guard
Coaching career 2013–present
Career history
As player:
1989–1990 Dubrava
1990–1998 Cibona
1998–2000 Tofaş
2000–2001 Joventut
2001–2002 Olimpia Milano
2002–2004 Cibona
2004–2005 Makedonikos
2005–2006 AEK Athens
2006–2007 Azovmash Mariupol
2007 Paris Basket Racing
2007–2008 Cedevita
2008 STB Le Havre
2008–2012 Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez
As coach:
2013–2014 Croatia (assistant)
2013 Cibona (assistant)
2013–2015 Cibona
2017–2018 Cedevita (assistant)
2018–present Cedevita B
Career highlights and awards

As player:

As head coach:

Slaven Rimac (born December 19, 1974) is a retired Croatian professional basketball player and current basketball coach of Cedevita B.

Professional playing career

Rimac led the 1996–97 EuroLeague in free throws shooting percentage 93.1%). Rimac retired from playing professional basketball in May 2012, as a member of the French team EB Pau-Orthez.[1]

National team career

Rimac was a member of the senior Croatian National Team at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, and EuroBasket 1997.

Coaching career

On November 14, 2013, Rimac was named new head coach of Cibona Zagreb, after the departure of Neven Spahija.[2] He led Cibona to the 2014 ABA League championship, despite the huge financial problems that the club was facing at the time.[3] As the champion of the ABA League, Cibona gained a direct spot in the following EuroLeague season, but the club withdrew from it in order to stabilize financially.[4] Eventually, Crvena zvezda, the third placed team in the league, took Cibona's spot in the EuroLeague.[5]He was sacked in Cibona, in 2015.

From 2017 to 2018, he was the assistant coach of Cedevita Zagreb, on the coaching staff of Jure Zdovc.[6]Since June 2018, Rimac works as the head coach of Cedevita B in the Croatian League, because Sito Alonso coaches A team in the Adriatic League and EuroCup.

References

  1. ↑ "Osmerostruki prvak Hrvatske s Cibonom Slaven Rimac završio karijeru". index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Smjena u Ciboni: Neven Spahija odlazi, Slaven Rimac novi trener, Amerikanci ostaju". jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "CEDEVITA - CIBONA 59-72 Briljantni Šarić srušio Cedevitu i odveo Cibonu do prvog trofeja u regionalnoj ABA ligi!". jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Zvezda direktno u Evroligi?". b92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Cibona odustala, Zvezda u Evroligi!". b92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Slaven Rimac pojačao stručni stožer Cedevite". kkcedevita.hr (in Croatian). 5 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
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