The World of Stats: Nikola Ivanović joins the 500+ assists club
Are you interested in the ABA League all-time records? Check out the following article and find out which major stats changes occurred during the last round.
The World of Stats
Maik Zirbes (Cedevita Olimpija) scored 8 points in a thrilling match against FMP and has therefore reached a total number of 1000 points scored in the ABA League. Zirbes is only the 9th foreign player to score 1000+ points in the regional competition. The other eight are: Aliaksei Lashkevich (1450), Julius Johnson (1332), Marton Bader (1284), Vladimer Boisa (1226), Chris Warren (1215), Chris Booker (1100), Charles Jenkins (1085) and Jacob Pullen (1045).
Marko Jagodić Kuridža (Crvena zvezda mts) has played his first ever Belgrade derby and it was his 100th game in the ABA League. Jagodić Kuridža has made 86 appearances for Cibona, with whom he won the 2013/14 ABA League championship (beating his current team Crvena zvezda mts in the semi-finals), he has then made 11 appearances for Koper Primorska and has so far played 3 games for Crvena zvezda mts in the regional competition. Jagodić Kuridža has made 840 points, 583 rebounds, 165 assists, 45 steals and 42 blocks so far in his ABA League career.
Speaking about the last-round Belgrade derby, Novica Veličković (Partizan NIS) scored 6 points in that match and has therefore reached a total number of 1670 points scored in the ABA League. Veličković has therefore made it to the Top 25 Scorers of all-time, as he moved in front of Boris Savović (1665 points) on the ABA League All-Time Scoring Leaders list.
Marko Jeremić (FMP) scored 4 three-pointers in the match against Cedevita Olimpija and has therefore reached a 100+ made 3-pointers milestone (103 three-pointers). Counting only the active players from the 2019/20 ABA League season, Jeremić has become the 31st player to score 100+ three-pointers in the regional competition.
Ivan Ramljak (Krka) made 10 rebounds in the last-round match against Cibona and has therefore reached a 900+ rebounds milestone. Ramljak now has 902 rebounds in his ABA League career stats and has moved past Novica Veličković (898 rebs) to take the 11th place on the All-Time Rebounds list. Ramljak needs 4 more rebounds to reach Predrag Samardžiski who is holding the 10th place on this list.
Nikola Ivanović (Budućnost VOLI) made 5 assists in a convincing in against Igokea and has become only the 13th player in the history of the ABA League to make 500+ assists in the regional competition. Ivanović now has 500 assists in his ABA League career stats, while there are 3 more active players from the 2019/20 ABA League season who are part of the 500+ assists club: Nemanja Gordić (913), Filip Čović (749) and Marin Rozić (533).
Special mention
On February 1, 2015, Crvena zvezda mts hosted Szolnoki Olaj in Round 20 of the 2014/15 ABA League season. Zvezda scored a convincing win (90:47), while the special thing about this game is the number of defensive rebounds made by the home team. The red & whites made 39 rebounds in this match, which is still the all-time record.
On February 1, 2014, Radnički Kragujevac hosted Szolnoki Olaj. This time it was Szolniki Olaj who scored the away win (82:91), but the final score is not why we mentioned this game. The real reason is the number of 3-point attempts made by Radnički Kragujevac. The home team had 46 attempts for 3-points, which is the still the single-game record in the ABA League. Unfortunately for Radnički, they made just 12 out of those 46 attempts and therefore lost the match.
