Maximum intensity is guaranteed in the Serbian capital as Zvezda (5-5) hosts Partizan (2-8) in the latest installment of the explosive Belgrade derby.
Game Notes: Zvezda vs. Partizan



Both teams are in need of victory to start climbing the standings, with Partizan particularly desperate to snap a six-game losing streak. Cool-headed experience could be crucial in the fervent atmosphere of Belgrade Arena, and Zvezda has plenty of that with the likes of veteran leaders Milos Teodosic and Luka Mitrovic, while Partizan’s revamped roster will be stepping into a more unknown environment. Visiting youngsters Mitar Bosnjakovic and Aleksej Pokusevski will look to provide the excitement and energy to match Zvezda’s wise old heads, while the visiting team must also provide strong perimeter defense against the hosts’ three-point shooting, which ranks second in the league at 39.8%.
Game Videos
- Zvezda and Partizan are tied at 2-2 in head-to-head EuroLeague meetings. In the first-ever EuroLeague meeting between these two Belgrade rivals, in December 2022, Zvezda rallied to stun Partizan 73-76 on a game-winning three-pointer from Nemanja Nedovic.
- These two teams played the five-game ABA League finals the last three seasons, with Crvena Zvezda beating Partizan 3-2 in 2022 and winning 3-0 last season, while Partizan won 3-2 in 2023.
- Zvezda point guard Codi Miller-McIntyre played for Partizan for the better part of the 2020-21 season
- Partizan sharpshooter Vanja Marinkovic and Miller-McIntyre were teammates at Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz last season.
- Marinkovic and Zvezda's Rokas Giedraitis were teammates at Baskonia for two seasons, from 2021 to 2023.
- Zvezda forward Nikola Kalinic played under Partizan head coach Zeljko Obradovic at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul for five seasons, from 2015 to 2020. They won the 2017 EuroLeague together.
- Kalinic and Marinkovic were teammates at Valencia Basket during the 2020-21 season and have also been teammates on the Serbian national team.
- Marinkovic has been a teammate of Zvezda's Dejan Davidovac, Filip Petrusev, Ognjen Dobric and Uros Plavsic on the Serbian national team. Together they won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Marinkovic, Petrusev, Davidovac and Dobric also won the silver medal at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Marinkovic and Zvezda's Nemanja Nedovic have also been teammates on the Serbian national team.
- Partizan center Tyrique Jones and Zvezda forward Mike Daum were teammates at Anadolu Efes Istanbul last season.
- Partizan guard Iffe Lundberg and Zvezda's Ognjen Dobric were teammates at Virtus Segafredo Bologna last season.
- Partizan's Arijan Lakic grew up with the Crvena Zvezda juniors and played in the ANGE tournaments for Zvezda.
- Zvezda team captain Branko Lazic posted his career high in steals with 4 in Crvena Zvezda's win over Partizan in December 2022.
- Partizan center Brandon Davies earned MVP of the Round honors in the 2022-23 season for his performance in an EA7 Emporio Armani Milan jersey against Zvezda in Belgrade. In a 67-71 victory, Davies collected 15 points, 6 rebounds and a career-high 7 assists for a PIR of 30.
- Milos Teodosic has collected 4 steals in a single game seven times in his EuroLeague career and four of them were against Partizan. The first two times came with Olympiacos Piraeus, first in January 2010, and then again in the 2010 Final Four semifinals. He also had 4 steals twice with CSKA against Partizan during the 2012-13 regular season.
- In one of those games, in January 2010, Teodosic had a career-high 3 blocks.