Coach Darko Rajaković, a native of Čačan, took over the Toronto Raptors and will become the second Serbian on the bench of an NBA team, after Igor Kokoškov.
Serbia has had the best player in the NBA for years, and the latest news from the USA shows that “the profession” is also at a premium! Serbian Darko Rajaković (44) will be the new coach of the Toronto Raptors in the strongest basketball league in the world, reported Adrijan Vojnarovski. One of the most influential sports journalists in the world, under the code exclusively, claims that all the details have been agreed and that Rajaković will take over the team that was the NBA champion a few years ago!
Canada’s only representative in the NBA has been busy looking for a coach for the next period in recent weeks, and Rajaković has quickly become the focus of interest. He was one of the candidates they interviewed, and in the end they decided on him as a long-term solution on the bench of the Raptors!
ESPN Sources: The Toronto Raptors are finalizing a deal to hire Memphis Grizzlies assistant Darko Rajakovic as the franchise’s next coach.pic.twitter.com/AEPu64p2F2
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn)June 10, 2023
Rajaković has been in the coaching staff since 1996, and in Serbia he worked as a coach in the younger categories of Borac Čačan and Crvena zvezda. Already in 2009, he moved to the USA, and since 2014 he has been in the NBA league, where he was an assistant in the coaching staffs of Oklahoma, Phoenix and Memphis. From time to time, he led the matches of those teams on his own, and next season he will have the opportunity to do it “on a daily basis”.