We can't yet know if Serbian star Nemanja Bjelica is ready for the NBA, but his work in the 2015 FIBA Eurobasket tournament makes it clearer than ever that he's got nothing left to prove internationally.
Bjelica led Serbia to a semifinal tilt against Lithuania with tournament averages of 14.1 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists on 59.2 percent shooting from the field. Though Lithuania advanced with a 67-64 win, the result doesn't detract from a sterling overall effort by Bjelica.
Those stats are all the more impressive because Bjelica didn't fun them up as his club's sole option; Miroslav Raduljica has NBA games on his resume and Milos Teodosic was the Euroleague MVP in the 2009-10 season. The latter will be highly sought-after by NBA teams when his contract with CSKA Moscow expires in 2017.
Bjelica is standing out among, well...standouts. And any doubts about where he sat on the Serbian basketball hierarchy disappeared much earlier in the tournament when he was the man to take the last shot against Germany.
It turned out well.
That's a 6'10" forward hitting a game-winning floater, by ...
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