Darko Balaban
APR
PositionCenter
LeagueRwandan Basketball League
Personal information
Born (1989-09-22) September 22, 1989
Novi Sad, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Listed height2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)
Listed weight105 kg (231 lb)
Career information
NBA draft2011: undrafted
Playing career2007–present
Career history
2007–2010Partizan
2010–2011Crvena zvezda
2011–2012Smederevo 1953
2012BKK Radnički
2012Târgu Mureş
2013Vršac
2013–2014Feni Industries
2014Smederevo 1953
2014–2015Szedeák
2015PAOK
2015–2016Dinamo București
2016–2017Club Africain
2017–2018Borac Čačak
2018–2020Melilla
2020–2021Balkan
2021–2022Kouchin Amol
2022–presentAPR
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  Serbia
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place2013 MersinTeam competition
Universiade
Bronze medal – third place2013 KazanTeam competition

Darko Balaban (Serbian Cyrillic: Дарко Балабан; born September 22, 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Balkan of the Bulgarian NBL.

Professional career

Balaban grew up with KK Sport Key from Novi Sad where he played from 2003 to 2007 when he goes to Partizan. In 2010 he goes to Crvena zvezda where he stayed one season.[1]

For the 2011–12 season he signed with KK Smederevo where he had great season and was named the MVP of the Basketball League of Serbia.[2]

In March 2012 he signed with BKK Radnički for Serbian Super League but played only nine games and then left the team. Following season he started with Târgu Mureş, but left them in December 2012.

In October 2013, he signed with Vršac. He left them after only two games and signed with Feni Industries.[3] In February 2014, he returned to Serbia and signed with his former team Smederevo.[4]

In September 2014, he signed with the Hungarian club Naturtex SZTE-Szedeák for the 2014–15 season.

On October 1, 2015, he signed with the Greek club PAOK.[5] However he left PAOK later that month after appearing in two league games and three Eurocup games. On December 2, 2015, he signed with Romanian club Dinamo București for the rest of the 2015–16 Liga Națională season.[6]

On November 16, 2017, he signed with Borac Čačak for the rest of the 2017–18 season.[7] On August 18, 2018, he signed with Club Melilla Baloncesto of the LEB Oro.[8]

In the 2021–22 season, he played for Kouchin Amol of the Iranian Basketball Super League.

In July 2022, Balaban joined the Rwandan team APR of the Rwanda Basketball League.[9]

References

  1. ↑ MONDO: Balaban iz Partizana u Zvezdu (in Serbian)
  2. ↑ DARKO BALABAN MVP OF SERBIAN LEAGUE
  3. ↑ Balaban u Makedoniji Archived 30 October 2013 at archive.today (in Serbian)
  4. ↑ Balaban ponovo u Smederevu Archived 4 March 2014 at archive.today (in Serbian)
  5. ↑ PAOK gets bigger with Balaban
  6. ↑ "Baschet. Darko Balaban (2,12 m) – noul jucator al echipei Dinamo". csdinamo.eu (in Romanian). 2 December 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Darko Balaban inks contract with Borac
  8. ↑ "Darko Balaban, centimetros para la pintura del Melilla Baloncesto". FEB (in European Spanish). 18 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  9. ↑ Munyeshuri, Evode (11 July 2022). "REG BBC Proves Too Much For APR, RBL Weekend Wrap. | Ground Sports". Retrieved 27 August 2022.
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