{"id":161257,"date":"2025-01-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=161257"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:14:19","slug":"grew-up-on-sarma-now-plays-for-another-country-son-of-a-red-star-legend-sets-a-record-in-the-nba-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/grew-up-on-sarma-now-plays-for-another-country-son-of-a-red-star-legend-sets-a-record-in-the-nba-video\/","title":{"rendered":"GREW UP ON SARMA, NOW PLAYS FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY: Son of a Red Star legend sets a record in the NBA! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Another brilliant NBA night is behind Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/category\/sport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">basketball <\/a>player Deni Avdija, this time a record-breaking one! Namely, the son of Zufer Avdija, a legend of Crvena Zvezda, scored 30 points and had nine assists in his Portland&#8217;s victory over Milwaukee with a score of 125:112!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just two days ago, Avdija had 28 points and eight rebounds and assists in a triumph over Oklahoma, and now he has gone a step further and shown that he is playing the basketball of his life this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a real shame that Avdija does not play for the Serbian national team, although his father, once the captain of Zvezda (played for 11 years), really wanted that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Deni chose to play for Israel, he played there in the youth selections, he would have to serve his military service in full, he would not be able to respond to all calls\u2026 If it were up to me, I told him at the beginning. If Serbia plays basketball, with the idea that he can win a medal with Serbia, that he can give him the opportunity to play at the Olympic Games, which is the most for any athlete. But he decided for himself, he was 17 years old, it&#8217;s his decision, I wasn&#8217;t there from the beginning when he started playing basketball, the basketball they taught him, his coaches taught him, I stepped aside and that&#8217;s it \u2013 Zufer told Telegraf at the time and added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE IN SERBIAN:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\t<figure class='wp-block-newspack-blocks-iframe'>\n\t\t<div class='wp-block-embed__wrapper' style=\"height:600px; width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe\n\t\t\t\tid = 'newspack-iframe-fzAzxFPr2TLy'\n\t\t\t\tlayout = 'responsive'\n\t\t\t\theight = '100'\n\t\t\t\twidth = '100'\n\t\t\t\tsrc = 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0GKAQ7ZpTmso3RhhcpVZTiq6fTHYM7otS3W5B9LB5mSoiCpxogfqaxf8RLRDbBB4xl'\n\t\t\t\tstyle = 'height: 600px; width: 100%;'\n\t\t\t\tframeborder = '0'\n\t\t\t\tallowfullscreen\n\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n\t<script>\n\t\tconst iframe = document.getElementById(\"newspack-iframe-fzAzxFPr2TLy\");\n\t\tconst timerId = setInterval( function() {\n\t\t\t\tiframe.src = iframe.src;\n\t\t\t}, 2000 );\n\n\t\tiframe.onload = function() {\n\t\t\tclearInterval(timerId);\n\t\t}\n\n\t<\/script>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>\u2013 He grew up because of our food, because my mother gave recipes to my wife, he only ate our food, cooked, baked\u2026 As if he lived in Belgrade\u2026 Sarma, stuffed peppers, moussaka, ajvar, pancakes with Eurokrem, everything we eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides Avdija, Anfernee Simons and Deandre Ayton played a great game. The first scored 25 points, the second had 21 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the Bucks, Giannis Antetokounmpo recorded 39 points and 12 rebounds. Damian Lillard added 20, while Gary Trent Jr. and Brook Lopez each had 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbia-faces-government-reshuffle-prime-minister-milos-vucevic-submits-irrevocable-resignation-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">SERBIA FACES GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE: Prime Minister Milo\u0161 Vu\u010devi\u0107 submits irrevocable resignation! 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Namely, the son of Zufer Avdija, a legend of Crvena Zvezda, scored 30 points and had nine assists in his Portland&#8217;s victory over Milwaukee with a score of 125:112! Just two days ago, Avdija had 28 points and eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":161258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1129,391,4659,129,1517,190,1695,1128,2376,91,15],"class_list":["post-161257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-basketball","tag-crvena-zvezda","tag-deni-avdija","tag-izrael","tag-kosarka-3","tag-nba","tag-nba-league","tag-red-star","tag-serbs-in-the-nba","tag-sport","tag-video","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161275,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161257\/revisions\/161275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}