FIBA 3x3 All Stars - Team Preview: Novi Sad Al Wahda (UAE)

1 Dec 2015

DOHA (2015 FIBA 3x3 All Stars) - The 2015 FIBA 3x3 All Stars will be staged in Doha on Friday 11 December 2015. In the lead-up to the event, we break down the six participating teams. Here's a closer look at reigning champs Novi Sad Al Wahda (UAE).

NOVI SAD AL WAHDA (UAE)

Seed: #1
Qualified: By winning the 2015 FIBA 3x3 World Tour
Previous All Stars appearances: 2013 (runners-up), 2014 (winners)

Roster
- Dusan Domovic Bulut aka 'Mr Bullutproof' (SRB): 30 years old; 1.91m; World Rank: 1
- Dejan 'The Maestro' Majstorovic (SRB): 27 years old; 2.00m; World Rank: 2
- Marko Savic (SRB): 28 years old; 1.97m; World Rank: 3
- Marko 'Sub Zero' Zdero (SRB): 30 years old, 1.90m; World Rank: 4

Notes
- Won every single FIBA 3x3 World competition (2012 FIBA 3x3 World Championships representing Serbia, 2014 and 2015 FIBA 3x3 World Tour, 2014 FIBA 3x3 All Stars)
- Only Novi Sad Al Wahda players (Bulut and Majstorovic) have finished at the top of the FIBA 3x3 Individual World Ranking since June 2014.
- Became the first team to win the FIBA 3x3 World Tour twice (2014, 2015)
- Bulut, Savic and Zdero are part of an exclusive group of five players who have participated in both editions of the FIBA 3x3 All Stars (Doha's Yaseen Musa and Tokyo's Tomoya Ochiai are the other two).
- Bulut was the top scorer of the 2014 FIBA 3x3 World Tour.
- Bulut, Savic and Zdero are friends since they were children growing up in the same neighbourhood

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