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The Serbian coach has been appointed Head of Player Development as Project B continues building its long-term talent pipeline<\/p>\n By Aris Barkas\/\u00a0barkas@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n Project B has appointed Igor Koko\u0161kov as its new Head of Player Development, with the experienced Serbian coach taking charge of the organization\u2019s long-term talent strategy.<\/p>\n The appointment is part of Project B\u2019s efforts to establish a player development pipeline alongside its professional competition, with a focus on identifying and developing young talent.<\/p>\n Koko\u0161kov brings more than 30 years of coaching experience across European basketball, international competitions and the NBA. In 2018, he became the first NBA head coach born and raised outside North America when he took over the Phoenix Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n On the international stage, Koko\u0161kov led Slovenia to the 2017 EuroBasket title and has also served on the Serbian national team\u2019s coaching staff.<\/p>\n In European club basketball, he most recently coached Anadolu Efes<\/a> and previously had a successful stint with Fenerbahce<\/a>.<\/p>\n Project B has been expanding its basketball operations with an emphasis on player development, and Koko\u0161kov\u2019s appointment represents another step in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-16T15:30:20+00:00 2026-07-16T15:30:20+00:00 2026-07-16T16:24:36+00:00. Nikola Miloradovic 16\/Jul\/26 15:30 Eurohoops.net Nikola Miloradovic The Serbian coach has been appointed Head of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-804397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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