Vladimir Lučić

This article is about the Serbian basketball player. For other uses, see Vladimir Lučić (disambiguation).

Vladimir Lučić (Serbian: Владимир Лучић, born 17 June 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player and the team captain for Bayern Munich of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. He also represents the Serbian national basketball team. Standing at 2.04 m (6 ft 8+1⁄2 in), he primarily plays at the small forward position, but he can also play at the power forward position.

Vladimir Lučić

Lučić with Bayern Munich in 2022
No. 11 – FC Bayern Munich
Position	Small forward / Power forward
League	BBL EuroLeague
Personal information
Born	(1989-06-17) 17 June 1989 (age 35) Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Listed height	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)
Listed weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	2011: undrafted
Playing career	2006–present
Career history
2006–2008	Superfund
2008–2013	Partizan
2013–2016	Valencia
2016–present	Bayern Munich
Career highlights and awards
All-EuroLeague First Team (2021) All-EuroLeague Second Team (2022) EuroCup champion (2014) 4× ABA League champion (2009–2011, 2013) 3× Bundesliga champion (2018, 2019, 2024) 5× Serbian League champion (2009–2013) 4× German Cup winner (2018, 2021, 2023, 2024) 4× Serbian Cup winner (2009–2012) German Cup Final Four MVP (2021)
Medals Men's basketball Representing  Serbia EuroBasket 2017 Turkey Universiade 2011 Shenzhen Team

Professional career

Superfund

Lučić started playing basketball at senior level with the Serbian team Superfund in 2006, where he stayed until 2008.

Partizan

After two years at Superfund, Lučić was signed by Partizan before the start of the 2008–09 season. In his initial two years at Partizan, Lučić played very little under head coach Duško Vujošević. In 2010–11, under new head coach Vlada Jovanović, Lučić received more playing time, alternating between small forward and power forward throughout the season. He improved his statistics, nearly doubling them in the Euroleague, averaging 5.8 points and 2.4 rebounds. Before the start of 2012–13 season, he became the next team captain, shortly after longtime captain Petar Božić left the team over the summer.^[1] He led his team over 2012–13 Euroleague season with 13.7 points and 4.8 rebounds over 10 games, but eventually Partizan didn't proceed to the next round of the competition.^[2] With Partizan, he won five consecutive Serbian League championships, four straight ABA Leagues and Serbian Cups.

Valencia

On 24 June 2013, Lučić signed a two-year contract with an option for a third year with Spanish club Valencia Basket.^[3][4] In his first season abroad, he had trouble with his back and left foot all over the season. He eventually had a foot surgery in January which sidelined him off the court until March.^[5][6] In his first EuroCup season, he averaged just 3.8 points and 2.3 rebounds over 8 games. Valencia eventually won the Eurocup, beating UNICS Kazan in the final.^[7][8]

On 17 June 2015, Valencia Basket extended the contract with him for one more season.^[9]

Bayern Munich

On 26 July 2016, Lučić signed a two-year contract with German club Bayern Munich.^[10] On 9 June 2017, Lučić signed a two-year contract extension with Bayern.^[11] He extended his contract until 2025 on 8 February 2022.^[12]

Serbian national team

See also: 2017 Serbia men's EuroBasket team

Lučić won a gold medal with the Serbian university team at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen. He made his debut with the senior Serbian national basketball team in the FIBA EuroBasket 2013 qualification. However, in a first game (against Iceland) he got injured and latter missed the rest of the qualification.^[13]

Lučić also represented Serbia at the EuroBasket 2017 where they won the silver medal, after losing in the final game to Slovenia.^[14] Over 9 tournament games, he averaged 8.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game.

At the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the national team of Serbia was dubbed as favorite to win the trophy,^[15] but was eventually upset in the quarterfinals by Argentina.^[16] With wins over the United States and Czech Republic, it finished in fifth place.^[17][18] Lučić averaged 7.1 points and 3 rebounds over 8 games.

Personal life

His older brother Uroš Lučić is also a professional basketball player.

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	PIR	Performance Index Rating
Bold	Career high

EuroLeague

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2009–10	Partizan	1	0	1.3	.000	.000	.000	.0	.0	.0	.0	.0	-1.0
2010–11		15	0	10.6	.522	.333	.667	1.9	.6	.2	.3	2.4	3.5
2011–12		10	9	21.7	.365	.269	.867	2.4	1.0	.1	.1	5.8	3.0
2012–13		10	9	33.2	.412	.323	.796	4.8	.8	1.6	.2	13.7	14.9
2014–15	Valencia	8	6	25.7	.476	.421	.762	3.3	.9	.9	.4	8.0	8.8
2018–19	Bayern Munich	29	29	26.2	.523	.351	.826	3.8	1.2	1.1	.2	10.0	12.1
2019–20		26	25	27.8	.547	.426	.847	3.8	1.5	1.0	.2	11.3	14.5
2020–21		31	31	31.0	.504	.441	.864	4.8	1.4	1.1	.1	13.6	17.8
2021–22		32	32	30.1	.427	.333	.881	4.2	1.5	.7	.2	12.1	14.2
2022–23		17	14	24.4	.429	.429	.951	2.6	.8	.8	.1	8.8	8.6
2023–24		20	13	25.2	.495	.460	.925	2.8	1.8	.5	.3	7.6	10.3
Career		199	168	26.3	.478	.388	.857	3.6	1.2	.8	.2	10.0	12.0

EuroCup

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2013–14	Valencia	8	0	18.3	.324	.143	1.000	2.3	.8	.5	.1	3.8	2.5
2014–15		8	0	21.5	.432	.438	.833	3.8	1.1	.8	.1	8.8	11.1
2015–16		15	9	16.0	.474	.429	.880	2.7	.7	.4	.1	5.7	6.6
2016–17	Bayern Munich	17	17	21.6	.448	.341	.857	2.8	.8	.4	.1	8.5	7.9
2017–18		8	3	24.8	.569	.375	.920	4.0	1.1	.9	—	12.3	15.5
Career		56	29	20.1	.460	.353	.875	3.0	.9	.5	.1	7.6	8.3

Domestic leagues

Year	Team	League	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2008–09	Partizan	ABA	6	2.7	.333	.000	—	.8	—	.2	—	0.7
2009–10	Partizan	KLS	2	12.5	.444	.200	—	1.5	1.0	.5	—	4.5
2009–10	Partizan	ABA	8	3.5	.250	.000	.750	.5	—	.1	—	0.9
2010–11	Partizan	KLS	14	17.7	.586	.444	.882	3.2	1.7	1.1	—	7.5
2010–11	Partizan	ABA	26	14.8	.523	.313	.600	2.4	.6	.3	.2	4.7
2011–12	Partizan	KLS	19	21.9	.512	.319	.816	4.6	1.2	.8	.4	10.9
2011–12	Partizan	ABA	27	25.1	.471	.339	.805	3.6	1.5	1.3	.1	10.0
2012–13	Partizan	KLS	17	22.3	.504	.370	.848	2.9	1.3	1.0	—	11.8
2012–13	Partizan	ABA	25	26.7	.445	.370	.770	3.9	1.0	1.2	.1	12.0
2013–14	Valencia	ACB	23	19.5	.454	.333	.825	3.6	.9	.5	.0	7.0
2014–15	Valencia	ACB	38	22.7	.523	.317	.795	3.3	1.0	.8	.3	8.3
2015–16	Valencia	ACB	34	14.0	.457	.271	.780	2.0	.6	.4	.1	4.8
2016–17	Bayern Munich	BBL	40	21.8	.561	.397	.791	3.6	1.6	.6	.2	9.6
2017–18	Bayern Munich	BBL	26	20.9	.625	.491	.938	3.4	1.0	.8	.1	10.3
2018–19	Bayern Munich	BBL	39	23.3	.584	.477	.875	4.0	1.5	1.0	.1	10.8
2019–20	Bayern Munich	BBL	23	23.4	.472	.353	.875	3.8	1.5	.6	.2	10.3
2020–21	Bayern Munich	BBL	24	27.8	.467	.369	.946	4.0	1.4	1.0	.2	12.4
2021–22	Bayern Munich	BBL	32	23.1	.457	.327	.844	3.8	1.9	.6	.2	9.1
2022–23	Bayern Munich	BBL	10	21.7	.556	.280	.741	3.0	1.9	.8	.2	8.7
2023–24	Bayern Munich	BBL	34	23.2	.466	.423	.870	3.9	2.1	.6	.1	8.0

References

1. "Lučić: Velika je čast biti kapiten Partizana". blic.rs. Tanjug. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
2. "Lucic Vladimir 2012-13 season". euroleague.net. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
3. "VALENCIA BASKET agrees to three-year deal with Lucic". Eurocup Basketball. Archived from the original on 13 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
4. "Valencia signs Vladimir Lucic to a 2+1 deal". Sportando. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
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6. "Vladimir Lučić do marta van terena!". vesti.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 14 February 2015.
7. "Dominant Doellman leads Valencia to third Eurocup crown". eurocupbasketball.com. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
8. "Valencia got its third Eurocup trophy". eurohoops.net. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
9. "Valencia Basket confirma a Vladimir Lucic per a la pròxima temporada". valenciabasket.com (in Spanish). 17 June 2015. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
10. "Bayern Munich signs Vladimir Lucic to a two-year contract". Sportando.com. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
11. "Vladimir Lucic signs a two-year contract extension with Bayern Munich". Sportando.com. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
12. "Vladimir Lucic extends contract with Bayern". Eurobasket. 8 February 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
13. "SRBIJA - CRNA GORA (20:30): Bez Lučića u derbiju". telegraf.rs (in Serbian). 18 August 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
14. "Slovenia overcome injuries to claim historic title in Dragic's swansong". FIBA.basketball. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
15. Curkovic, Igor (28 August 2019). "FIBA Basketball World Cup Power Rankings, Volume 3". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
16. "Argentina upsets Olympic silver medalist Serbia in FIBA World Cup quarterfinals". nbcsports.com. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
17. "Serbia defeats USA in FIBA World Cup consolation round play". nba.com. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
18. T., P. (14 September 2019). "Bogdanović ponovo briljirao – Srbiji peto mesto u Kini" (in Serbian). Retrieved 14 September 2019.

External links

• Vladimir Lucic at FIBA (archive)
• Vladimir Lučić – profile and statistics at Basketball Bundesliga (archive) (in German)
• Vladimir Lučić at euroleague.net
• Vladimir Lučić at acb.com (in Spanish)
• Vladimir Lučić at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (former profile) (in Serbian)
• Vladimir Lučić on Instagram