Edo Murić extended with Cedevita Olimpija

Edo Murić, a member of the golden generation of the Slovenian National Team from 2017, remains in Ljubljana. The 29-year-old from Ljubljana has signed a contract with Cedevita Olimpija, and he will wear the jersey of the Ljubljana club at least until the end of the 2021/22 season.

Edo Murić started his basketball career at Parklji in Bežigrad, and in the 2008/09 season he was loaned to TCG Mercator in Škofja Loka. Murić said goodbye to the Bežigrad club in 2010 and went to Novo mesto, to Krka. With very good performances in Novo mesto, he also earned a place in the Atlanta Hawks team in the NBA Summer League in 2014, and in September 2014 he then strengthened Belgrade's Partizan NIS.

From Belgrade, his career then led him to Turkey, where he wore the Banvit jersey in the 2016/17 season, and then signed a contract with Anadolu Efes in September 2017, but left the club in December of the same year. The 2017/18 season was concluded by Murić in Poland at Zielona Gora, with which he then terminated his contract in September 2018 and joined the Zagreb team Cedevita in December of the same year. In 2019, Murić became the first basketball player in history to become part of Cedevita Olimpija following the merger of Petrol Olimpija and Cedevita Zagreb.

Murić has been a permanent member of the Slovenian men's national team practically since the beginning of the last decade. He played in three European Championships (2011, 2013, 2017) and one World Championship (2014), and in 2017 he was one of the key members of Slovenia on the way to the title of European champion. Among other things, Murić is also part of the Slovenian men's national team, which will fight for Slovenia's performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer.

In the 2020/21 season, Murić appeared in 24 ABA League games and averaged 8.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 24.2 minutes on the floor. 

As he agreed on extension of the cooperation with the Ljubljana squad, Murić stated: “I am happy to be staying in Ljubljana. I feel very well at Cedevita Olimpija, the club is superbly organized, and the atmosphere in the locker room is always great. We all know that we want to take a step forward in the coming season, and this will be the main motivation when returning to work in Stožice. I can't wait to see my teammates again after the summer, which will be marked by the national team campaign. I hope and wish that the hall would be nicely filled next season, and that the fans would enjoy the matches that await us.”

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Edo Murić ostaja v Cedeviti Olimpiji

Slovenski reprezentant in prvi igralec, ki je ob združitvi Olimpije Ljubljana in Cedevite Zagreb postal del članske zasedbe Cedevite Olimpije, Edo Murić, ostaja v Ljubljani vsaj še eno sezono.

Edo Murić, član zlate slovenske reprezentance iz leta 2017, ostaja v Ljubljani. S Cedevito Olimpijo je 29-letni Ljubljančan podpisal pogodbo, dres ljubljanskega kluba pa bo nosil vsaj do konca tekmovalne sezone 2021/22. Ljubljančan tako ostaja v klubu, s katerim je v minuli sezoni osvojil naslov državnega in superpokalnega prvaka.

Svojo košarkarsko pot je Edo Murić začel pri bežigrajskih Parkljih, v sezoni 2008/09 pa je bil posojen v škofjeloški TCG Mercator. Od bežigrajskega kluba se je Murić poslovil leta 2010 in odšel v Novo mesto, h Krki. Z zelo dobrimi predstavami v dresu Novomeščanov si je leta 2014 prislužil tudi mesto v ekipi Atlanta Hawks na Poletni Ligi NBA, septembra leta 2014 pa je nato okrepil beograjski Partizan NIS.

Iz Beograda ga je kariera nato vodila v Turčijo, kjer je v sezoni 2016/17 nosil dres Banvita, septembra 2017 pa nato podpisal pogodbo z Anadolu Efesom, a klub zapustil decembra istega leta. Sezono 2017/18 je Murić sklenil na poljskem pri Zieloni Gori, s katero je septembra 2018 nato prekinil pogodbo in se decembra istega leta pridružil moštvu zagrebške Cedevite. Leta 2019 je Murić kot prvi košarkar v zgodovini postal del Cedevite Olimpije.

Stalni član slovenske moške članske reprezentance je Murić že praktično vse od začetka minulega desetletja. Zaigral je na treh evropskih prvenstvih (2011, 2013, 2017) in enem svetovnem prvenstvu (2014), leta 2017 pa bil eden izmed ključnih členov Slovenije na poti do naslova evropskega prvaka. Murić je med drugim tudi del slovenske moške članske reprezentance, ki se bo letošnje poletje borila za nastop Slovenije na olimpijskih igrah v Tokiu.

V tekmovalni sezoni 2020/21 je Murić zaigral na 24 tekmah Lige ABA in v povprečju beležil 8,5 točke, 3,9 skoke in 1,8 asistence v 24,2 minutah, ki jih je preživel na parketu.

Ob podaljšanju sodelovanja z Ljubljančani je Murić dejal: „Vesel sem, da ostajam v Ljubljani. V Cedeviti Olimpiji se počutim zelo dobro, klub je vrhunsko organiziran, prav tako pa je vzdušje v garderobi vedno odlično. Vsi vemo, da želimo v prihajajoči sezoni napraviti korak naprej, in to bo glavna motivacija ob vrnitvi na delo v Stožice. Komaj čakam, da se s soigralci po poletju, ki ga bo zaznamovala reprezentančna akcija, znova vidimo. Upam in želim si, da bo dvorana v prihodnji sezoni lepo napolnjena, in da bodo navijači skupaj z nami uživali v tekmah, ki nas čakajo.“