Background
Savović was born in the Socialist Republic of Croatia city Pula to a family of Serbian descent.
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Predrag Savovic
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He attended Ivan Goran Kovacic High School in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro. He also attended the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) from 1997-1998 and then the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in the United States., from 1998 to 2002.
Career
He played for the National Basketball Association"s Denver Nuggets and Iurbentia Bilbao of the Spanish ACB, among other teams. He holds degrees in International Business and Finance as well as Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also holds an EMBA Degree from University of Deusto, Deusto Business School.
Predrag was a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference pick in his junior and senior seasons, the Most Valuable Player of the 2002 Women's Army Corps tournament, and an honorable mention All-American selection by the Associated Press.
Hawaii advanced to the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament of 2002. Savović grew up playing for Partizan Belgrade, KK Beovuk, and KK Šabac.
He moved to the American National Collegiate Athletic Association even though he was well into his twenties. Undrafted, he signed with the National Basketball Association"s Denver Nuggets in 2002, for whom he played during the 2002-2003 National Basketball Association season, making him one of only few European players by that time to make a jump from National Collegiate Athletic Association to National Basketball Association.
After some years working in Bilbao Basket he became the president of the club in December 2010.
Achievements
Membership
Last five years he has been an important member of Iurbentia Bilbao Basket, a member of ACB League in Spain until his retirement in 2009.
