#4/Center Nikola Vucevic/Current Teams Montenegro men's national basketball team #9/Center with the Chicago Bulls Nikola Vucevic is a Center who currently plays for the Montenegrin national basketball team. He has played in the NBA since being drafted number nine overall by the Chicago Bulls in 2014. Vucevic has also played for Orlando Magic and Vancouver Grizzlies. His career averages are 14.8 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. Vucevic was born on January 4th, 1992 in Titograd, Yugoslavia (now Podgorica, Montenegro). His mother is Serbian and his father is Albanian. He has two siblings named Teodor and Tamara. His family moved to Canada when he was ten years old so he could get better training opportunities. When he was younger, Vucevic wanted to be a soccer player like his older brother Teodor but when he saw how hard of work it required of him he decided to try out for basketball instead. He started playing organized basketball at the age of 11 after coming to Montreal for training with local teams. During this time he also learned English very well which helped him fit in with Canadian culture when he first arrived here.