Vanja Marinković is a Serbian professional basketball player who plays for Partizan Belgrade of the Basketball League of Serbia.
Background
Marinković was born in Belgrade, First Revision Yugoslavia. He comes from relatively-sports family. His father Zoran is football referee and cinematographer, while his mother Dragana and his six-year older brother both played basketball in youth.
Career
Standing at 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in), he plays at the shooting guard and point guard positions. Marinković started playing basketball for Belgrade-based club Vračar where he played from 2006 until 2010. He then moved to Koledž where he stayed for one season.
Partizan Belgrade
In the summer of 2011, he moved to play with Partizan"s youth categories.
He continued to play with the youth categories of the team for four seasons, with the exception of the last season in which he played occasionally, as he spent most of his time training with the senior team 2013-2014 season
In 2013-2014 season, he started working with the senior team of Partizan, under head coach Duško Vujošević.
He debuted for the team in the Serbian Cup game against FMP Belgrade. However, although being capped for the games many times, he occasionally got the chance to play in the rest of the season.
2014-2015 season
In 2014-2015 season, he became a standard part of senior team"s rotation.
Three days after turning 18, on January 12, 2015, he signed his first professional, four-year contract with Partizan. Over the season, he appeared in 29 games of the American Bar Association League, averaging 3.9 points, 1.2 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game. He also played in the Eurocup where Partizan was eliminated in the Group East. On September 18, 2015, he appeared in the EuroBasket 2015 special event - International Basketball Federation European U-18 All-Star game, consisted of the 24 most talented European players born in 1997 or after.
He led his Team Black with 17 points and 4 assists in 82–87 loss to Team Red.
2015-2016 season
Starting with the 2015-2016 season, after very turbulent summer for Partizan and many roster and organizational changes, Marinković was named the team captain. However, his performances in the beginning of the season were below expectations.