Nenad Vučinić

Nenad Vučinić

Personal information
Born	(1965-04-07) April 7, 1965 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian / New Zealander
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	196 lb (89 kg)
Career information
Position	Small forward
Career history
As player:
?–? BASK-u ?–? KK Radnički Beograd ?–1989 Osijek Slavonka 1989–2000 Nelson Giants
As coach:
Club: 1996–2001 Nelson Giants 2002–2003 OKK Beograd 2004–2007 Nelson Giants 2008–2010 BC Kalev/Cramo 2010–2011 Darüşşafaka S.K. 2011–2012 Fulgor Libertas Forlì 2012–2013 Fujian Xunxing 2019–present Byblos Club National team: 2001–2006 New Zealand (assistant) 2006–2014 New Zealand
Career highlights and awards
3× Oceanian Champion (1999, 2001, 2009) 3× New Zealand Champion (1994, 1998, 2007) Estonian Champion (2009) Estonian Cup Winner (2008)
Medals Men's Basketball Representing New Zealand Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne National team

Nenad Vučinić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Вучинић) (born April 7, 1965) is a Serbian basketball coach and the head coach of the Byblos Club in the Lebanese Basketball League. He is the former head coach of New Zealand men's national basketball team the Tall Blacks. He was also the head coach for Fulgor Libertas Forlì in the Italian second league (Legadue), and for BC Kalev/Cramo, a professional basketball club based in Tallinn, Estonia which participates in Korvpalli Meistriliiga, Baltic Basketball League and VTB United League.

As a player he grew in the youth side of Partizan Belgrade. He played for BASK-u, Radnicki, Kolubari and Slavonka (Osijek) before flying to New Zealand in 1989 with his wife.

As a player, Vučinić was voted to the NBL All-Star Five in 1990. He has won five NBL Coach of the Year titles while guiding Nelson to two titles in 1998 and 2007. He stood down as Giants coach after their most recent success and still holds the record for most NBL coaching wins (164). After six years as an assistant coach, he took over the Tall Blacks reins in 2007, taking them to victory over Australia in the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship and into the last 16 at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

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