RIGA (Latvia) - Jusuf Nurkic became the fifth highest scoring Bosnian player of all-time at FIBA EuroBasket after scoring 20 points against Poland in the Round of 16.
Appearing in his 11th EuroBasket game, Nurkic's point total in the Dragons' encounter with Poland pushed his all-time total in the competition to 183 points.
At the top of list is Mirza Delibasic on 348 points, having represented Yugoslavia from 1975-1981.
Nurkic overtook Samir Advdic (170 points) and Nenad Markovic (182 points) to continue to climb the list, while point guard John Roberson entered the top 10 after passing the 150-point mark in his second EuroBasket tournament.
Rank | Player | Games | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Mirza Delibasic | 30 | 348 |
2. | Sabahudin Bilalovic | 9 | 217 |
3. | Mirza Teletovic | 13 | 195 |
4. | Mario Primorac | 12 | 192 |
5. | Jusuf Nurkic | 11 | 183 |
6. | Nenad Markovic | 11 | 182 |
7. | Samir Avdic | 14 | 170 |
8. | Gordan Firic | 20 | 157 |
9. | Elmedin Kikanovic | 15 | 154 |
10. | John Roberson | 11 | 153 |
= | Jasmin Hukic | 12 | 153 |
Nurkic will have to wait until 2029 to move further up the list after the Dragons missed out on a place in the Quarter-Finals.
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