Peja Stojaković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peja Stojaković

Serbian basketball player

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1977

Place of Birth: Požega, Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia

Profession: basketball player

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Peja Stojaković

  • Predrag Stojakovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ??????????, pronounced [?prêdra?g 'stôja?ko?it??]; born June 9, 1977), also known by his nickname Peja (Peda, ????, pronounced ['pêd??a]), is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player.
  • He is currently the director of player personnel and development for the Sacramento Kings.Standing at 6 ft 10 (2.08 m), Stojakovic played mostly at the small forward position.
  • He won the NBA Three-point shootout two times, and was the first European-born player to win one of the All-Star Weekend competitions.
  • Stojakovic made 1,760 three-point field goals in his career which ranked 10th all-time at the point of his retirement. After starting in Crvena zvezda and while playing for PAOK, Stojakovic was drafted fourteenth overall by the Sacramento Kings in the 1996 NBA draft.
  • In the NBA, he had a breakthrough season in 2000–01 following two seasons on the bench, averaging 20.4 points and 5.8 rebounds while shooting .400 from three-point range in his first season as a starter.
  • He finished second in voting for the 2001 Most Improved Player Award.
  • A three-time All-star and a member of the 2004 All-NBA Second Team, Stojakovic enjoyed success with the Kings reaching the 2002 Western Conference Finals.
  • He also played for the Indiana Pacers, New Orleans Hornets and Toronto Raptors.
  • Stojakovic won an NBA Championship in 2011 as a member of the Dallas Mavericks. Stojakovic helped to lead the senior FR Yugoslavian national team to gold medals in the 2001 FIBA EuroBasket and the 2002 FIBA World Championship.
  • Often considered to be one of the greatest European basketball players ever, Peja was named the Euroscar Basketball Player of the Year by the Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport and the Mister Europa Player of the Year twice by the Italian sports magazine Superbasket. On December 19, 2011, he announced his retirement from playing professional basketball.
  • On December 16, 2014, the Sacramento Kings retired his number.

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