{"id":25275,"date":"2024-02-12T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/25275\/steve-kerr-attends-funeral-of\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:40:21","slug":"steve-kerr-attends-funeral-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=25275","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kerr attends funeral of Warriors assistant Dejan Milojevi\u0107 in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Kerr attends funeral of Warriors assistant Dejan Milojevi\u0107 in Serbia\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BELGRADE, Serbia \u2014 Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevi\u0107, mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, was buried Monday in his native Serbia after suffering a heart attack last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral on a rainy day at a Belgrade cemetery, including Warriors coach Steve Kerr, general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr., basketball operations consultant Zaza Pachulia and coach Rick Celebrini.<\/p>\n<p>A coffin draped in flowers was carried by Milojevi\u0107&#39;s former Serbian teammates.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Steve-Kerr-attends-funeral-of-Warriors-assistant-Dejan-Milojevic-in.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Milojevi\u0107 died on January 17 in Salt Lake City, where he was hospitalized after a medical emergency during a private team dinner.  Milojevi\u0107, who was part of the staff that helped the Warriors <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the 2022 NBA championship, was 46 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Milojevi\u0107&#39;s death sparked a huge outpouring of sympathy from the basketball community and fans in his native country, where he was a star player for Partizan Belgrade and other clubs in Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey and Spain before turning to the coach.<\/p>\n<p>Predrag Danilovi\u0107, president of the Serbian Basketball Federation, said that no one respected and liked Milojevi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA great basketball player, a great coach has left us, and above all a great <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">man<\/a>, a man without the slightest stain. I had the honor and the pleasure of being friends with him even if we did not play together &#8221; Danilovic said during an official ceremony.  commemoration of Milojevi\u0107 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Marko Ke\u0161elj, from the Serbian Sports Ministry and a former basketball player, said the sport was Milojevi\u0107&#39;s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith his positive energy, he brought out the best in us,\u201d Ke\u0161elj said.  &#8220;He motivated us to be better in every way, as people and as players. Deki was a friend, a mentor, he was a leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Milojevi\u0107 was in his third season with the Warriors.  He previously coached in Serbia \u2013 where he worked with a young Jokic before the current Denver Nuggets star came to the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> States \u2013 as well as Montenegro, and was an assistant coach for the Serbian national team in the alongside current Hawks assistant Igor Koko\u0161kov.<\/p>\n<p>Milojevi\u0107 worked closely with Jokic, Clippers center Ivica Zubac, Magic center Goga Bitadze and Rockets center Boban Marjanovic, among others, during his coaching tenure in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Milojevi\u0107 won three consecutive MVP awards in the Adriatic League, which includes teams from the former Yugoslavia, winning those trophies in 2004, 2005 and 2006, when the 6-foot-7, 240-pound power forward was at the top of his playing career.  Jokic was MVP of this league in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Warriors, Milojevi\u0107 had experience in the NBA through summer league assistant coaching positions in Atlanta, San Antonio and Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr and the other Warriors representative will not return in time for Monday&#39;s game against the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Milojevi\u0107 is survived by his wife, Nata\u0161a, and their children, Nikola and Ma\u0161a.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#39;s Kendra Andrews contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Kerr attends funeral of Warriors assistant Dejan Milojevi\u0107 in Serbia\u060c BELGRADE, Serbia \u2014 Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevi\u0107, mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, was buried Monday in his native Serbia after suffering a heart attack last month. 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