Dejan Milojevic suffers a heart attack / News - Basketnews.com

Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic unfortunately suffered a heart attack.

Dejan Milojevic, one of the assistant coaches of the Golden State Warriors, has suffered a heart attack.

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Serbian outlet Telegraf states that he was rushed to a hospital and that he is thankfully stable at the moment.

Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne from ESPN confirmed the story, adding that there were players and coaches dining together when Milojevic's health episode occurred.

Milojevic, who is 46 years old, had previous coaching experiences in the ABA League. He was the head coach of Mega Basket for 8 years between 2012 and 2020, and he had a brief stint with Buducnost VOLI Podgorica in 2021.

Currently, he is one of the seven assistant coaches of the Golden State Warriors.

The Serbian was also a former basketball player who once made it to the All-Europe Second Team and became ABA League MVP three times with the Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade jersey.

He was also part of the Yugoslav squad under Svetislav Pesic in the 2001 EuroBasket, where Yugoslavia won over Turkiye in the final game to claim the trophy.

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