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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Košarkaški klub Mega Basket (Template:Lang-sr-cyr), currently referred to as Mega Superbet for sponsorship reasons, is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association.[1]

In addition to Belgrade, the club also played its home games in Kruševac (2012–13 season), Smederevo (2013–14 season), and Sremska Mitrovica (2014–2019). The club participates in the Serbian League (KLS) and the ABA League.

History

The Avala Ada era (1998–2005)

KK Avala Ada (Template:Lang-sr-cyr) was established on 23 December 1998 by a group of basketball enthusiasts, all employed at the Avala Ada packaging factory located in the Viline Vode neighbourhood on the outskirts of Belgrade. Finally implemented in late 1998, the idea of launching a full-fledged basketball club within the state-owned factory's legal framework had been considered since summer 1995, initially on the heels of yet another participation of Avala Ada employees in basketball competitions at the Workers' Sporting Games (Radničke sportske igre; state-funded excursionary social, leisure, and team building gatherings featuring semi-formal sporting competitions for employees within various industries). Even prior to 1995, Avala Ada employees had regularly participated at the Workers' Sporting Games, continually placing high against basketball select squads of other factories/companies within the packaging industry in FR Yugoslavia and also earlier in pre-1992 SFR Yugoslavia. Though the idea of launching a more formal and permanent basketball program within the factory had been bandied around since 1995, the immediate catalyst for its late 1998 formation turned out to be the factory basketball team's notable showing at the 1998 Workers' Sporting Games in Divčibare several months earlier during summer 1998. Furthermore, having already secured a steady revenue and regular customer base allowed the company to financially support such a venture outside of its core business activity. Within months, Košarkaški klub Avala Ada (Avala Ada Basketball Club) was established as a legal entity within the Avala Ada sports society that was formed simultaneously.[2][3]

With KK Avala Ada's management—club president Veljko Grujić and sporting director Velimir Mihailović—appointed from the factory employee ranks, coaching hires were made from outside the factory: young head coach Miodrag "Miša" Perišić and his assistant Rade Orlović.[2][3] Players on the roster were also a mix of factory's employees and outside acquisitions: the team's first captain was the factory's commercial director Bratislav Gajić.

The newly-established club started out in the lowest rank of the FR Yugoslavia basketball system: Belgrade Municipal League, the so-called "Concrete League" (Beton liga), fifth tier of competition in the country. In the early summer of 1999, the club won the Belgrade Municipal League (played outdoors only during summer), thus qualifying for the Serbian Second League (4th-tier competition on the FR Yugoslavia basketball pyramid). Playing the 1999–2000 season in the fourth-tier Serbian Second League, the Perišić-coached club set an ambitious goal of gaining promotion on its first try and succeeded.[2][3]

The 2000–01 season was played in the third-tier Serbian First League, finishing third and barely missing out on promotion. Head coach Miša Perišić left the club after eventful two and a half years, taking the offer from the Serbian First League rivals KK Nova Pazova. The following 2001–02 season, Avala Ada finished third again, failing to gain promotion to the higher rank.

In the 2002–03 season, with Miša Perišić returning to the club as head coach, the club again missed promotion based on the league standing, however, it managed to qualify to the federal First B League through playoffs in Novi Bečej, beating Vrbas and KK Zeta.[3]

Playing its first season, 2003–04, in the country-wide federal rank in the second-tier First B League (Serbian group), Avala Ada finished third thus missing promotion to the top league. Also, in 2003, Avala Ada packaging factory (founded in 1946) was privatized after 57 years of public ownership.[4] Its new private owner Nebojša Šaranović was entirely not keen on continuing the financial support of a basketball club within his newly-acquired packaging factory asset and thus set about carving KK Avala Ada out of the factory's structure with the intention of selling it.

Before the start of the 2004–05 season, the most significant development in club's short history occurred—it was taken over by the Miško Ražnatović-owned BeoBasket sports agency.[3]

The Mega Basket era (2005–present)

Based on their performance in the 2004–05 season, Avala Ada managed to gain promotion to the Serbia-Montenegro top-tier league. During the 2005–06 campaign, playing its first top flight season, the club changed its name to KK Mega Basket on 19 December 2005.[3][5] At the same time, it signed a sponsorship deal with the Smederevo-based Ishrana food company, leading to the club competing as Mega Ishrana until 2007.[3] The team got relegated at the end of the 2005–06 season, however, the May 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum that meant that Montenegro would become a fully independent state also resulted in the basketball league being re-organized and Mega Ishrana remaining in Serbia's top-tier basketball league.

Later, also via a naming-rights sponsorship deal, the club was called Mega Aqua Monta for the 2007–08 season, and Mega Hypo Leasing in the 2008–09 season.

In August 2009, before the start of the 2009–10 season, another Belgrade-based club KK Vizura merged into KK Mega Hypo Leasing, and the club was renamed KK Mega Vizura. In November 2014, the club changed its name to Mega Leks due to sponsorship reasons.[6] In 2016, Mega Leks won its first trophy ever when it beat KK Partizan 86–80 in the Serbian Cup Final.[7] In 2017, the club changed its name to Mega Bemax due to sponsorship reasons.

On June 14, 2018, the club signed a contract on sports and technical cooperation with OKK Beograd.[8][9] Later that summer, on August 11, 2018, the club played a pre-season preparation game under NCAA basketball rules against the most recent NCAA tournament Southern Regional semifinalist University of Kentucky men's basketball team at the Imperial Arena on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, losing heavily 100–64.[10] Some ten days later, on August 23, 2018, Mega played the University of Michigan men's basketball team, recent NCAA tournament runner-up, this time under FIBA rules, in Sant Julià de Vilatorta, Spain and winning 81–73.[11]

As an organization focused primarily on showcasing its roster and providing a springboard platform for player transfers to bigger clubs in Europe and the NBA, in summer 2019, Mega continued the pre-season practice of travelling to the Bahamas to face off against top U.S. collegiate teams in preparatory games. This time, it was two games against the Texas Tech University basketball team, most recently the NCAA tournament runner-up; Texas Tech won the first contest 94–92 on August 16, 2019 at Imperial Arena on Paradise Island while Mega won 73–76 four days later at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

On September 15, 2020, the club changed its name to Mega Soccerbet for the 2020–21 season due to sponsorship reasons.[12][13] On October 28, 2021, the club changed its name to Mega Mozzart for the 2021–22 season due to sponsorship reasons.[14] In July 2022, the club changed its name to Mega MIS for the 2022–23 season due to sponsorship reasons.[15][16] On 6 January 2025, the club changed its name to Mega Superbet.[17]

Sponsorship naming

The club has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:

  • Mega Ishrana (2005–2007)
  • Mega Aqua Monta (2007–2008)
  • Mega Hypo Leasing (2008–2009)
  • Mega Vizura (2009–2014)
  • Mega Leks (2014–2017)
  • Mega Bemax (2017–2020)
  • Mega Soccerbet (2020–2021)
  • Mega Mozzart (2021–2022)
  • Mega MIS (2022–2025)
  • Mega Superbet (2025–present)

Home arenas

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Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall

Mega Basket plays their ABA League domestic home games at the Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall, located in the Belgrade municipality of New Belgrade. The arena, then named New Belgrade Sports Hall, was built in 1968. It has a seating capacity of 5,000. Mega Basket plays their BLS home matches at the Mega Factory Hall.

The club has had several home arenas through the years in four cities:

Players

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Current roster

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Depth chart

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Players at the NBA draft

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2007 2 60 Script error: No such module "flag". Milovan Raković# C Dallas Mavericks (traded to Chicago Bulls)
2014 2 41 Script error: No such module "flag". Nikola Jokić* C Denver Nuggets
2014 2 52 Script error: No such module "flag". Vasilije Micić PG Philadelphia 76ers (traded to Oklahoma City Thunder)
2014 2 54 Script error: No such module "flag". Nemanja Dangubić# SF Philadelphia 76ers (traded to Brooklyn Nets)
2016 1 24 Script error: No such module "flag". Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot G/F Philadelphia 76ers
2016 2 32 Script error: No such module "flag". Ivica Zubac C Los Angeles Lakers
2016 2 35 Script error: No such module "flag". Rade Zagorac# SF Boston Celtics (traded to Memphis Grizzlies)
2017 2 49 Script error: No such module "flag". Vlatko Čančar SF Denver Nuggets
2017 2 58 Script error: No such module "flag". Ognjen Jaramaz# PG New York Knicks
2017 2 60 Script error: No such module "flag". Alpha Kaba# PF/C Atlanta Hawks
2019 1 18 Script error: No such module "flag". Goga Bitadze C Indiana Pacers
2020 2 44 Script error: No such module "flag". Marko Simonović C Chicago Bulls
2021 2 50 Script error: No such module "flag". Filip Petrušev PF/C Philadelphia 76ers
2022 1 27 Script error: No such module "flag". Nikola Jović SF Miami Heat
2022 2 52 Script error: No such module "flag". Karlo Matković C New Orleans Pelicans (from Utah Jazz)
2024 2 43 Script error: No such module "flag". Nikola Đurišić# SG/SF Miami Heat (traded to Atlanta Hawks)
2025 2 47 Script error: No such module "flag". Bogoljub Marković# PF Milwaukee Bucks

Coaches

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Avala Ada
Mega Basket

Season-by-season

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2005–06 1 BLSM First League 10 9–13
2006–07 1 BLS First League 3 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />SLScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 6th 16–20 Quarterfinalist
2007–08 1 BLS First League 5 12–10
2008–09 1 BLS First League 5 15–11 Balkan League 3rd 6–6
2009–10 1 BLS First League 8 13–13
2010–11 1 BLS First League 4 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />SLScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 8th 18–22 Quarterfinalist
2011–12 1 BLS First League 4 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />SLScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 6th 22–18 Quarterfinalist
2012–13 1 BLS First League 2 Semifinalist 30–13 Semifinalist
2013–14 1 BLS Super League 3 Semifinalist 9–7 Runners-up ABA League 8 12–14
2014–15 1 BLS Super League 4 Semifinalist 7–9 Runners-up ABA League 10 11–15
2015–16 1 BLS Super League B2 Semifinalist 4–4 Winners ABA League 2nd 19–12
2016–17 1 BLS Super League 4 Semifinalist 9–7 Semifinalist ABA League 6 11–15 Champions League 7th 4–10
2017–18 1 BLS Super League A3 Quarterfinals 8–6 Semifinalist ABA 1st League 9 8–14
2018–19 1 BLS Super League B2 Semifinalist 7–5 Semifinalist ABA 1st League 5 10–12
2019–20 1 BLS Super League <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />AbandonedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Semifinalist ABA 1st League <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />AbdScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 6–15
2020–21 1 BLS Super League <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />NHScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Runners-up 5–3 Runners-up ABA 1st League 6 14–12
2021–22 1 BLS Super League <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />NHScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Semifinalist 7–2 Semifinalist ABA 1st League 10 10–16

Trophies and awards

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Trophies

Individual awards

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Management and staff

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Current head coaches are:[21]

  • Senior team: Marko Barać
  • U18 and U19 teams: Milan Vidosavljević
  • U16 team: Dejan Pejić

Notable players

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International record

Season Achievement Notes
Basketball Champions League
2016–17 Regular season 7th in Group D with SIG Strasbourg, Sidigas Avellino, Iberostar Tenerife, Telenet Oostende, Cibona, Juventus, and Mornar (4–10)

References

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External links

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  • Club Profile at aba-liga.com
  • Club Profile at eurobasket.com

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