Miško Ražnatović: Godfather Of European Hoops | EXTRA SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME Basketball
All The Smoke
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4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In a special EXTRA SMOKE episode, we take you into the guys Croatia trip where they interviewed Nikola Jokic's agent, Miško Ražnatović. The godfather of European hoops explains how he found Jokic, the difference between the European game and the NBA, why international players are having so much success in the league, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back all the smoke international we're over the waters out here in |
| 0:28.7 | Croatia. I mean we have a really special guest today and forgive me if I butchered your name. |
| 0:34.4 | I've been practicing it for the last 30 minutes. Measco, Rosnadevich. |
| 0:37.5 | Good to see you. |
| 0:38.7 | That was close. |
| 0:39.5 | One of the most respectful and influential agents in the world coming to you. |
| 0:39.5 | Obviously from the beautiful sunset media festival out here in Croatia. |
| 0:43.9 | Let's just jump right into it. You have three players in the NBA finals right now. |
| 0:48.6 | One is a two-time MVP, Nicola Yokic. |
| 0:54.0 | You were someone who discovered him so tell us about how you discovered him and talk a little |
| 0:56.8 | bit about him as a person. We obviously get to see the amazing basketball player but |
| 1:01.8 | he's some of the starting to come out of his shell and talk a little bit more but we haven't |
| 1:06.8 | really heard him talk too much. So tell us how you discovered him and who he is he as a person. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah I mean this is pretty unique story because generally all the players from NBA or even Uroly, |
| 1:14.8 | you know they discover by team of scouts who are going all over the country and see the kids |
| 1:23.0 | eight years or ten years or then start following them. Somehow nobody really paid attention on this |
| 1:29.4 | guy. What is really funny is I have Belbasket as my company. We have very big scouting department |
| 1:35.9 | and very good especially in territory of Serbia because this territory is not a big one. |
| 1:43.1 | Somehow they also didn't find him and they didn't notice him. What really happened because I'm |
| 1:47.1 | all fashion guy. I like to read newspapers not to go to web portals. So every Sunday there is |
| 1:52.6 | Serbia newspapers with the results from all over the country and all over all leaks. So I was reading |
| 1:59.4 | newspaper and saw that one guy in the competition Serbia in under 18 what is really low had 29 points |
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