HEROES ARE GIANTS. NOT (JUST) BECAUSE THEY ARE TALL. BUT BECAUSE THEY DO GIANT THINGS. AND BECAUSE THEY LIFT PEOPLE UP.
WHOM DID YOU INSPIRE, HELP OR MADE HAPPIER TODAY? DID YOU GET UP? DID YOU HELP SOMEONE GET BETTER OR HAPPIER?
SEND YOUR STORY WITH PICTURES OR VIDEO, THIS WORLD NEEDS MORE HEROES.
I WILL BE AWARDING THE BEST HERO STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
Awards are great, but you gotta be carefl.
The problem with awards is that you cannot depend on them.
They are here just to push you forward and up.
Two Times Winner Kia Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month Honors for December and March
Selected to the World Team at All-Star Weekend in New York, Where he finished with 16 points (6-9 FG, 4-6 3FG) and 4 rebounds in 20:36
Ranks 3rd all-time in the Bulls rookie record books
Euroleague Rising Star Award (2010-11 and 2011-12), Which is awarded to the league’s best player under 22 years of age
Participated in Basketball Without Borders Europe Camp Turkey 2008 as well as Basketball Without Borders Europe Camp in 2007.
Early-entry candidate for the 2011 NBA Draft
Named to the 2012-13 All-Euroleague Second Team and named the 2014 Spanish Cup Final MVP. Parimatch ambassador
The Order of Saint Sava, the highest award presented by the Serbian Orthodox Church for humanitarian work and philantrophy.
I am proud I have won them but I keep trying as if I have to win them all over again.
I was born in Montenegro and I was raised to respect all the people in the world.
People are really tall there and they love to win.
I guess that’s why good basketball is played in Montenegro.
My first love was… you will never guess it – soccer!
I was really tall, which was cool, but so tall that I had to switch the ball!
The first basketball practice ended up in tears. I thought I was never gonna do this.
But that was all before I met my coach Jadran Vujacic in the basketball club Joker in Podgorica.
It took a lot of patience and endurance to learn this game. He literally changed the way we all saw basketball and showed us the magic of playing the hoops.
Then, when I was just starting to get good at it, my family moved to Spain.
It was hard being without my friends, my city and my hood, but Spain opened the world for me.
The most important words I have ever heard were from a fan who said –
Hero?
I was struck and humbled. What was I supposed to do?
How do you train to be a hero?
Being a hero is not a vocation.
That is something bigger… it’s a life’s mission.
So I remembered my childhood heroes –
they were great players and great inspirations to others.
Can I be like them?
I thought, to be able to continue to be someone’s hero, I have to improve myself.
Everyday.