Nenad Krstic was born on July 25, 1983 in the city of Kraljevo (Serbia). During his career, a basketball player was able to win a silver medal at the World Championships in 2014 and a gold medal at the European Championships in 2009. Nenad Krstic played in the center position.
Player career
Nenad Krstic began his professional career in 2000, that year he made his debut for the Belgrade Partizan, here he spent four full seasons. In his final season for Partizan, the center scored an average of about 13.5 points per game in the Euroleague (the most prestigious basketball tournament of the Old World). As part of his first club, Nenad Krstic three times became the champion of the Super League of Serbia and Montenegro, and in the 2001-2002 season the list of achievements was replenished with the title of holder of the Serbia Cup.
On June 26, 2002, in the NBA draft, he was selected under the common 24th number; New Jersey Nets became his new club. It is noteworthy that over the next two seasons the new overseas club did not call him to him, and the player continued his performances for the modest Partizan on loan. Two years later, the Nets bosses remembered Nenad Krstic, the basketball player crossed the ocean.
New Jersey Nets
In the 2004-2005 season, Krstic held his first game for the new club; in that season he showed himself to the best. He scored an average of about 10 points per game and made 5.5 rebounds and making almost 1 block shot. According to the results of the season, Nenad was included in the second team of the rookies of the season in the NBA. This was the beginning of the real popularity of Nenad Krstic, a photo with his image literally dazzled in his native Serbia, and even around the world they learned about this gifted basketball player.
In his debut NBA playoff matches of that season, which were played against the Miami Heat, Nenad made about 18.5 points per game, made about 7.5 rebounds and handed out 1 assists. This is more than solid statistics for a newcomer to the elite basketball league. This season gave a lot to the player, he improved his skills, including those that usually do not have a center position (choice of playing position, dynamic movement, as well as a stable throw from an average distance).
In the 2005-2006 season, Krstic continued to work hard on himself. For this season, he averaged 13.5 points, made 6 requisitions, and also became part of the team’s collective attack. In the first round of the playoffs of the current season against Indiana, the Serb averaged a solid 18 points per match and made more than 7 rebounds.
In the next season, despite the failure of the first part of the tournament by the team, the player himself looked stable and scored the best in his career indicators in points (average 16.6), rebounds (about 6.8) and assists (almost 2). But at the end of December, he received a knee injury. It took an operation that was successful, but Krstic missed the rest of the season. The season 2007 - 2008 was a complete disappointment for the player, after an injury and an operation he could not reach the previous level of the game, but promised the fans that he would do it a year later.
"Triumph"
The summer of 2008 changed the fate of the player. He entered into negotiations with the Russian club Triumph from the city of Lyubertsy, playing in the Super League. The negotiations were successful, the Serb signed a contract for two years. The amount of the contract was 6 million euros. The player played for the new club seven times and scored an average of 10.4 points in these games, made 5.1 rebounds in the regular season. At the FIBA Challenge Cup, he scored 13.3 points and made 7.3 rebounds, in this tournament Nenad spent six matches.
Further career
In Triumph, the player did not show his worth and left the club, moving to the Oklahoma City Thunder, here he played from 2008 to 2011, then he played for the Boston Celtics a year, and then returned for three seasons to Russia (to Moscow CSKA). Three seasons were played here, and then the Serb left to conquer Turkey. First, he played for Anadola Ephesus in the seasons from 2014 to 2016, and after that Krstic moved to Galatasaray.
General information about the player and his features
It can be attributed to the large center Nenad Krstic, its growth is 211 centimeters with a weight of 120 pounds. Many experts note the excellent speed and technique of the player with such parameters of his body, which is very unusual for basketball. I must say that the Serb’s career is quite even, he did not get lost in any of the clubs and always played leading roles. Such basketball players are always appreciated by teammates and club coaches. At home, they love a player very much, this is the person that everyone likes, even rivals on the team.