Danko Cvjetićanin

Danko Cvjetićanin (often credited as Cvjetičanin; born 16 October 1963) is a Croatian basketball scout and former player.

Cvjetićanin won two silver medals at the Olympic Games, one with Yugoslavia (1988) and the other with Croatia (1992). Cvjetićanin, who started his career with Partizan, won the European Club Championship with Cibona in 1986. He also played professionally in Spain and Italy.

Early life Born in Zagreb, six-year-old Cvjetićanin moved to the Yugoslav capital Belgrade along with his parents and sister when his sociologist father Vladimir Cvjetićanin, whose areas of study primarily focused on the social structure of the Yugoslav population, took a management position at the state-owned Ivo Lola Ribar metallurgical factory in the Belgrade suburb of Železnik.

Growing up during the 1970s in Belgrade, Cvjetićanin attended the Drinka Pavlović Primary School. —as Yugoslavia made the final where they lost to Soviet Union.

Playing in the backcourt with his Cibona club teammate Dražen Petrović or Partizan's Željko Obradović, Cvjetićanin's best scoring outing came at the preliminary group stage with 18 points versus the minnows of the group, South Korea. He also had an important 16-point contribution (on 83.3% field goal percentage including 4 of 4 three-pointers) in the quarter-final versus Canada in only 17 minutes of action, taking advantage of Canada's defensive focus on Yugoslavia's star player and leading scorer, Petrović.

Post-playing career After playing career, Cvjetićanin worked as the European scouting coordinator for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers from 1998 to 2010. He has been performing the same position for the New Jersey Nets since 2010.

Personal life Cvjetićanin married Nika Antunac. In January 1993, while Cvjetićanin was playing professionally with CB Estudiantes, their son, Filip, was born in Spain. Following in his father's footsteps, Filip Cvjetićanin would end up pursuing basketball as well, starting out in the Estudiantes youth categories before switching to college basketball in the United States at the Florida Gulf Coast University.

After divorcing Antunac, Cvjetićanin married Marga Pirjać. The couple has two children, daughter Lana (born in 2014) and son Tin (born in 2016).