“Play for the NBA name before the end of my career”

NBA – Currently in preparation for the next European Championship (27. August – 14. September) with Montenegro, Nikola Vacević (34 years) is still with bulls at the beginning of the school year and nurtures high ambitions for the rest of his career.

Relaxed, ambitious and repairable. Rolled in the armchair of his hotel in La Roche-sur-Ion, just beforedeal with Blues At the beginning of August, Nikola Vučević swallowed all their news. This was especially evident this summer, with more rumors that announce it elsewhere than in Chicago. However, Montenegrin turn See you really start the season in Illinois. He “almost without a doubt,” he said in particular.

Almost 35 years (they will have them 24. October), gender from Morges (Switzerland) would also want “ Try to play for a team that has ambitions to win NBA title “. The ambitions are set for a safe bet of the NBA, who continued to work last season at 18.5 points in 53% of successes in recordings, 10.1 reception and 3.5 helps at 31. minutes. Minutes. All in 73 regular seasonal games.

But before considering its 15th season in a large league, the old interior of Six and Magic wants to have fun with Montenegro during the next Eurobasket (27. August – 14. September), probably his last international competition.

You announced in the middle of July that the next European Championship would certainly be your last competition with Montenegro. Where are you in your reflection?

I may change my mind, but for now, I think it will be my last. The following (European Championships) is only in two years. I will be 36, 37 years old. I would also like to focus more on my career in the NBA. With age, I have to think about my body and recovery, before I survive the season.

During the year I am often absent for traveling, training and matches. Summer is an opportunity to compensate for lost time with my three children and enjoy. This is currently my biggest priority.

What are you going to remember?

With almost four participation in the European Championships and the two World Cups, I am satisfied with the career in the choice. For Montenegro, participation in each major international competition is already success as such, because we are a small country with few players.

In recent years, you preferred to have good results …

Yes, they were the most successful, including 12½th place at World Cup 2023, it was huge for us. Before the team cohesion was not always always there. While now, with a new generation, there is real alchemy, envy. This is what specializes our good results in particular. I think a player like the port of Bogavac can become a leader in Montenegrin choice. He is the son of Nebojsa Bogavac (coach de bite-Souffel, in Pro B), there are a lot of talents and plays next season in North Carolina.

“A little chance” to pass 1. The round of euros

Before you are probably closing your chapter in the National Election Choice, you have the last European Championship you need to play. You ended 13. In 2022 years, what will your ambition this year be?

We are a pretty heavy hen (in group B, with German, Finnish, Great Britain, Lithuania and Swedish), so if we pass the first round, it will be a huge success. We have absent players, wounded, so it will be quite difficult in the current state, but I think we still have a little chance to achieve it.

Let’s talk about your NBA career now. You were in the heart of the rumor at the beginning of the summer. What is your own bull situation like?

A week ago (the interview was conducted in August), GM des Bulls, who contacted me after all the rumors on me, confirmed that nothing was true and that everything we said after the season was still of course. I knew that, but it’s always nice when GM contacts you to tell you.

So you expect to start the season at Chicago ?

Yes, I almost had no doubt. In this state of mind I am preparing. After that, we will see, I don’t know what will happen

How did you manage different rumors about you?

The rumors are always. Most are false. It’s a little like anything. For example, that in Europe was interpreted in Europe: the journalist wrote that if there was no “trade” during the season, there may be the possibility of “purchasing” before “Roka”.

I know how business works: In the last year of the contract, there are always speculations. Since I can’t control anything, I’m trying not to take the lead.

To return to the last season, you were once more very close to the playoffs, before the heat “play”. What evaluation do you make?

It is very frustrating because as a player you always want to go to the playoffs, especially from three years to be eliminated in “Play-in” Miami. But it remains a very good season, especially because there were a lot of questions about my ability to adapt to the new style game.

In 2023-2024, I was a little below what I was doing, so I was motivated to show that it was just a little less good season. I managed to find my level, I played well, so I’m happy.

What do you yell for your end of your career?

I would like to try to play for a team that has ambitions to win NBA title. It is easier to join in Europe, but in the NBA is complicated due to the rules and “trade”.

“I feel very well physically and mentally”

Do you think that could be with Chicago?

Maybe not this season, because we will be a young team. But you never know, team ambitions are changing since years of age, in line with injuries and transfers.

How old do you want to play, before you curb?

I didn’t set the age limit. As long as I’m physically physically, motivated and I have a role in the field that suits me, I hope I will continue to play. I feel very well physically and mentally. I come from a very good season. I’m in my last year of the contract with Chicago. After that, see you according to opportunities and offered roles. I know that, sooner or later, my role will develop and I’m ready to accept it. I think I have a few good years in front of you.

Tell us about two young people, very considering bulls, Australian leader Josh Giddei (22) and Lithis Buzelis (20) Lithis Winger ……

Josh had a great season. He was very motivated after leaving the OKC and adjusted well to our style game. He even helped him get even better. I like to play with him because the leader that makes a passage, which is good in “choosing and rolling” and that sees certain things many do not see. As a turn, it helped me have a lot of easier baskets.

As for Matas, it is a very big talent. I think he will have a big career in the league. He was young, but he had already shown that he had his place in the NBA. It has a strong self-confinement, but it is a personality trait I love. Because when you are young, you have to believe in yourself. But it’s not arrogance. He was realistic: He knows what he can do. He is the player I really like.

Finally, few words in the season, your best friend just scored, Evan FournierAt Olympiakos …

I am very happy for him. He had two complicated years in New York, and then in Detroit. It saw that he was not happy, that he had no one of this flame for the game that was normal. Olympiacos, with her fans, her energy, that was good.

Interview in La Roche-sur-Ion (Vendee).