Dalibor Ilić
{{short description|Serbian basketball player}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Dalibor Ilić
| image = Dalibor_Ilic_6.jpg
| image_size = 270px
| caption = Ilić with Igokea in April 2022.
| position = Power forward / center
| height_m = 2.06
| weight_kg = 94
| league = Serbian League
ABA League
| team = Spartak Subotica
| number = 22
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2000|3|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = Višegrad, Republika Srpska,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
| nationality = Serbian / Bosnian
| draft_year = 2022
| career_start = 2016
| years1 = 2016–2022
| team1 = Igokea
| years2 = 2019
| team2 = →Mega Bemax
| years3 = 2022–present
| team3 = Crvena zvezda
|years4 = 2024–present
|team4 = →Spartak Subotica
| highlights =
- ABA League champion (2024)
- 3× Bosnian League champion (2017, 2020, 2022)
- 2× Serbian League champion (2023, 2024)
- 5× Bosnian Cup winner (2017–2019, 2021, 2022)
- 2× Serbian Cup winner (2023, 2024)
- 2× All-Junior Adriatic League Team (2018, 2019)
| medal_templates =
{{MedalSport|Men's basketball}}
{{MedalCountry|{{bk|SRB}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Latvia|U18 Team}}
}}
Dalibor Ilić ({{lang-sr-cyr|Далибор Илић}}; born 4 March 2000) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Spartak Subotica of the Serbian League (KLS) and the ABA League as a loaned player from Crvena zvezda.
== Early career ==
Born in Višegrad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ilić started to play basketball for youth system of his hometown team Varda. In 2015, he joined youth teams of Igokea from Aleksandrovac. He won the third place at the 2017–18 Junior ABA League season with the Igokea U19 team. Over six season games, he averaged 20.8 points, 10.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.{{cite web |title=Dalibor Ilić Season Statistics |url=https://www.aba-liga.com/player.php?id=2640&sez=17&lea=7 |website=aba-liga.com |accessdate=4 August 2018}} Ilić won the third place at the 2018–19 Junior ABA League season with the Igokea U19 team. Over six season games, he averaged 26.7 points, 16.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game.{{cite web |title=Dalibor Ilić 2018–19 Season Statistics |url=https://www.aba-liga.com/player.php?id=2640&sez=18&lea=7 |website=aba-liga.com |accessdate=8 April 2019}}
Professional career
In 2016, Ilić was promoted to the Igokea first team. On 30 October 2016 he made his ABA League debut in a game against Cedevita.{{cite web |title=Igokea Aleksandrovac 69 : 84 Cedevita Zagreb |url=https://www.aba-liga.com/match.php?id=45&lea=1&sez=16&tab=Boxscore |website=aba-liga.com |accessdate=4 August 2018}} In March 2019, was loaned out to Mega Bemax for the rest of the 2018–19 Serbian League season.{{cite web |title=Igokea posudila talentiranog Ilića! |url=https://petnapetblog.com/2019/03/29/dalibor-ilic-promijenio-sredinu/ |website=petnapetblog.com |accessdate=29 March 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329203707/https://petnapetblog.com/2019/03/29/dalibor-ilic-promijenio-sredinu/ |url-status=dead }}
Following the 2020–21 season Ilić declared himself for the 2021 NBA draft. On July 19, 2021, he withdrawn his name from consideration for the 2021 NBA draft.{{cite web |title=NBA announces 51 early entry candidates withdraw from 2021 Draft |url=https://www.nba.com/news/nba-announces-51-early-entry-candidates-withdraw-from-2021-draft |website=nba.com |access-date=21 July 2021}}
On 14 July 2022, Ilić signed a four-year contract with Serbian club Crvena zvezda of the EuroLeague.{{cite web |title=Zvanično: Ilić u Zvezdi |url=https://www.b92.net/sport/kosarka/vesti.php?yyyy=2022&mm=07&dd=14&nav_id=2185130 |website=b92.net |access-date=14 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=Zvezda adds frontcourt depth with Ilic |url=https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/news/zvezda-adds-frontcourt-depth-with-ilic/?pageTitle=Homepage&historyUrl=/euroleague/ |website=euroleaguebasketball.net |access-date=14 July 2022}}
National team career
Ilić was a member of the Serbian U16 team at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 7.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game.{{cite web |title=Serbia 9 - Dalibor Ilic |url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/123172/sid/12295/tid/96799/tid2//_/2016_FIBA_U16_European_Championship/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806055138/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/123172/sid/12295/tid/96799/tid2//_/2016_FIBA_U16_European_Championship/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 6, 2018 |website=archive.fiba.com |accessdate=4 August 2018}} He was a member and the team captain of the Serbian U18 team that won the gold medal at the 2018 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship in Latvia. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 9.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.{{cite web |title=Dalibor ILIC 2018 FIBA Profile |url=http://www.fiba.basketball/europe/u18/2018/player/Dalibor-Ilic |website=fiba.basketball |accessdate=6 August 2018}}
Ilić was a member of the Serbian under-19 team that finished 7th at the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup in Heraklion, Greece. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 10.9 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game.{{cite web |title=Average Statistics of Serbia at the 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup|url=http://www.fiba.basketball/world/u19/2019/team/Serbia#tab=overview |website=fiba.basketball |accessdate=7 July 2019}}
Career statistics
{{Euroleague player statistics legend}}
=EuroLeague=
{{Euroleague player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"| Crvena zvezda
| 7 || 0 || 9.6 || .636 || .000 || .750 || 2.3 || .1 || .4 || {{sort|-|—}} || 3.3 || 5.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24
| 15 || 4 || 8.8 || .591 || .429 || .250 || 1.7 || .4 || .2 || .1 || 2.0 || 2.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 22 || 4 || 9.1 || .606 || .375 || .625 || 1.9 || .3 || .3 || .0 || 2.4 || 3.4
{{S-end}}
=Basketball Champions League=
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"| Igokea
| 10 || 10 || 23.1 || .535 || .125 || .650 || 5.4 || .8 || .5 || .4 || 6.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22
| 8 || 8 || 27.1 || .571 || .200 || .577 || 7.4 || 1.4 || .5 || .5 || 8.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 18 || 18 || 24.8 || .553 || .154 || .609 || 6.3 || 1.1 || .5 || .4 || 6.9
{{S-end}}
=Domestic leagues=
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%; text-align:right;"
! Year
! Team
! League
! {{Tooltip|GP|Games played}}
! {{Tooltip|MPG|Minutes per game}}
! {{Tooltip|FG%|Field goal percentage}}
! {{Tooltip|3P%|3-point field-goal percentage}}
! {{Tooltip|FT%|Free-throw percentage}}
! {{Tooltip|RPG|Rebounds per game}}
! {{Tooltip|APG|Assists per game}}
! {{Tooltip|SPG|Steals per game}}
! {{Tooltip|BPG|Blocks per game}}
! {{Tooltip|PPG|Points per game}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 2 || 2.0 || .000 || .000 || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || 0.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|Liga BiH || 15 || 16.3 || .500 || .143 || .625 || 4.7 || .9 || .3 || .1 || 6.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 21 || 14.7 || .565 || .450 || .813 || 4.1 || .8 || .3 || .2 || 4.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Serbia|size=20px}} Mega || style="text-align:center;"|KLS || 12 || 23.5 || .528 || .286 || .739 || 5.7 || 1.9 || 1.2 || .6 || 10.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|Liga BiH || 15 || 25.7 || .598 || .185 || .657 || 9.1 || 2.1 || .9 || .7 || 11.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 20 || 23.3 || .512 || .216 || .667 || 5.8 || 1.0 || .8 || .3 || 8.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|Liga BiH || 10 || 24.9 || .729 || .500 || .613 || 8.1 || 1.8 || .6 || .6 || 13.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 23 || 20.6 || .479 || .167 || .645 || 4.4 || 1.0 || .5 || .3 || 7.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|Liga BiH || 8 || 21.5 || .526 || .308 || .692 || 5.6 || .9 || .4 || .2 || 7.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Bosnia|size=20px}} Igokea || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 24 || 26.1 || .575 || .339 || .713 || 7.7 || 1.2 || .7 || .4 || 12.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Serbia|size=20px}} Crvena zvezda || style="text-align:center;"|KLS || 2 || 13.1 || .286 || {{sort|-|—}} || .636 || 3.0 || 1.5 || {{sort|-|—}} || {{sort|-|—}} || 5.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Serbia|size=20px}} Crvena zvezda || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 19 || 14.6 || .667 || .375 || .524 || 3.4 || .8 || .7 || .2 || 5.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Serbia|size=20px}} Crvena zvezda || style="text-align:center;"|KLS || 3 || 17.7 || .750 || .333 || .500 || 4.3 || .3 || .3 || .3 || 5.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24 || style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|Serbia|size=20px}} Crvena zvezda || style="text-align:center;"|ABA || 22 || 11.0 || .490 || .278 || .690 || 2.9 || .4 || .3 || .1 || 3.4
{{S-end}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.aba-liga.com/player/2640/24/1/dalibor-ilic/ Dalibor Ilić] at aba-liga.com
- [https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Dalibor-Ilic/Summary/97161 Dalibor Ilić] at realgm.com
- {{Instagram|ilicd_}}
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