Basketball Player-John Wick Star Leaving NBA

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Serbian basketball player Boban Marjanović has had a successful career in the NBA for the past decade, becoming a favorite of many and even breaking into the big screen with film roles. But nine years after his first NBA season, Marjanović is returning to Europe.

Sources confirmed this on September 18 ESPN Marjanović will leave the NBA and join the EuroLeague – a return of sorts to the league he started in in the early 2010s. He will join Turkish team Fenerbahçe Beko.

Fenerbahçe Beko Sarunas Jasikevicius said regarding his transfer, “We want Boban to be Boban, that's all. We are waiting for him.” Eurohoops.

Marjanović has played for many teams in both the EuroLeague and the NBA throughout his career. In the EuroLeague, he played for Eastern European teams such as CSKA Moscow, Žalgiris, Nizhny Novgorod, Radnički Kragujevac, Mega Vizura and Crvena zvezda. He joined the NBA in 2015 and has played for the San Antonio Spurs and later the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers and Dallas Mavericks. He most recently played two years with the Houston Rockets.

In 2019, Marjanović made the transition from the basketball court to the big screen, taking on a small role as an assassin named Ernest in the action thriller. John Wick: Chapter 3 – ParabellumIn his scene, he fights John Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, in the New York Public Library. Marjanović later starred in the basketball movie Rush In 2022; the following year, he took on the role of an assassin again in the 2023 film Confidence.

When Marjanović quits basketball for good, a promising career in Hollywood may be waiting for him.

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