Hometown forward sings a one-year extension
Partizan extends Mario Nakic
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On the eve of the new EuroLeague season, Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade has announced that it reached an agreement on a one-year extension with small forward Mario Nakic, who is now under contract until the end of June 2027.
Nakic (2.03 meters, 24 years old) arrived to Partizan in the summer 2024, and last season appeared in 12 EuroLeague games in limited fashion.
That signing a summer ago marked Nakic's return to his hometown. He previously played on Partizan's junior teams and his father Ivo is a club legend who played on the club's EuroLeague championship team from 1992.
Nakic left Belgrade as a talented teenager to join Real Madrid in 2015. He made his professional debut with Real in the 2017-18 season as a 16-year-old and made his Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut with Los Blancos in the 2019-20 campaign.
A year earlier, Nakic led U18 Real Madrid to the 2019 Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament championship as the tournament MVP. He averaged 17.3 points, 6.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.5 steals in four games and was the star of the show as he set championship game records with 33 points and a performance index rating of 41.
After his time with Real, Nakic played a year with Ostende in Belgium, where he helped the team win the Belgian League and Cup double in 2021 and then spent a season with MoraBanc Andorra in the Spanish League. Prior to joining Partizan, Nakic spent two seasons with Igokea of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he averaged 8.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists in the 2023-24 ABA League season.