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Serbia’s Partizan and Mega honor Dejan Milojevic with pregame tribute

Dejan Milojevic played for Partizan and was the head coach of Mega Basket in Serbia.

Prior to joining Steve Kerr’s bench as an assistant with the Golden State Warriors, Dejan Milojevic had a successful career as a player and coach in Europe and his home country of Serbia.

Milojevic spent time playing for the Belgrade-based club Partizan before becoming the head coach of KK Mega Basket in Serbia. On Monday, Milojevic’s two former teams honored him with a special pregame tribute.

Via @DraftExpress on Twitter:

Along with chanting and cheering, fans hoisted a mural of Milojevic in the crowd.

Via @PartizanBC on Twitter:

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Boston alum PJ Dozier signs deal with Belgrade’s Partizan

Boston Celtics alum point guard PJ Dozier has signed a one-year deal with Partizan, formerly the team of stashed Celtics floor general Yam Madar.

Boston Celtics alum point guard PJ Dozier has signed a one-year deal with Partizan per Eurohoops, formerly the team of stashed Celtics floor general Yam Madar. The move comes as a replacement for Dante Exum, who left Partizan to return to the NBA earlier this summer.

Despite going undrafted in 2017, Dozier managed to secure a contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder and later joined Boston’s roster as a two way player. Dozier would later join the Denver Nuggets, but a serious knee injury derailed his career in the league and saw him dealt back to Boston before the Celtics dealt him to the Orlando Magic in turn.

Dozier would later try a comeback in the 2022-23 season with the Sacramento Kings but was unsuccessful, sparking his decision to try to jump-start his career overseas.

The former Celtic averaged 3.2 points, and 2.8 rebounds per game with the team.

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Stashed Boston Celtics floor general Yam Madar signs two-year deal with Fenerbahce

While it looked like there was perhaps at least a small chance that long-stashed Israeli point guard Yam Madar might finally join the Boston Celtics this coming season, instead Madar finds himself embroiled in a contract dispute.

While it looked like there was perhaps at least a small chance that long-stashed Israeli point guard Yam Madar might finally join the Boston Celtics this coming season, instead Madar finds himself embroiled in a contract dispute for the second time in his career.

Madar, who previously fought with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv to leave that team’s roster to make the leap to a higher level of competition, now finds himself at odds with European club KK Partizan Mozzart Bet, having since decided to take his talents to the Turkish basketball powerhouse Fenerbahce Beko after “delayed payments”.

Per Eurohoops’ Bugra Uzar, the Israeli has signed a two-plus-one-year deal with the Istanbul-based ball club that plays in both the Turkish Basketball Super League and the EuroLeague.

Ex-Celtics big man Guerschon Yabusele apologizes for Dante Exum bodyslam in Partizan-Real Madrid fight

“I deeply regret my behavior at last night’s game,” wrote Yabusele on his Instagram after the loss.

Former Boston Celtics big man Guerschon Yabusele has apologized for an incident in which he bodyslammed fellow former NBAer Dante Exum in the middle of an on-court fight between EuroLeague teams Partizan and Real Madrid on Thursday that resulted in a ruptured tendon and chipped tooth for the latter, per USA TODAY’s Tom Schad.

“Euroleague Basketball strongly condemns the events that happened at the end of the game,” said the league in a statement after the contest was called in favor of Partizan after neither team had the minimum number of players available after the ejections caused by the bench-clearing fight.

“I deeply regret my behavior at last night’s game,” wrote Yabusele on his Instagram after the loss. “Basketball is about sportsmanship and friendship.”

“My sincere apologies to Partizan, a club with which we have always had a great relationship, to Dante Exum and his family, to my teammates, my club, and all the fans.”

“Exum could have broken his spine, seriously injured his head and ended his career,” shared Partizan team doctor Moma Jakovljević, who called for Yabusele’s permanent ejection from the league for the act.

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Celtics alums Guerschon Yabusele, Yam Madar’s teams get game canceled over brawl

Yabu ended up bodyslamming a player in the chaos.

It seems that a pair of Boston Celtics alumni found themselves on the opposite side of the European version of a (much more subdued) Malice in the Palace on Thursday, with a match between Spanish club Real Madrid and Belgrade-based ball club KK Partizan.

One of the Celtics’ stashed floor generals, Israeli point guard Yam Madar watched as his team erupted into an all-out brawl with formerly stashed Boston big man Guerschon Yabusele ending up in the thick of things, most notably when he body-slammed fellow ex-NBAer Dante Exum to the hardwood.

The Dancing Bear — as Yabusele is called — and the acts of others as the fight spiraled out of control caused the match to be canceled by the officials things got so bad (h/t to BasketNews).