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}} Predrag Stojaković (; born June 9, 1977), also known by his nickname Peja (sr. Peđa/Pedja/Пеђа), is a Serbian retired professional basketball player and is currently the director of player personnel and development for the Sacramento Kings. He also holds Greek citizenship. Standing at 6 ft 10 (2.08 m), Stojaković played mostly at the small forward position. He won the NBA Three-point shootout two times, and was the first European-born player to win one of the All-Star Weekend competitions. Stojaković made 1,760 three-point field goals in his career which ranked 10th all-time at the point of his retirement. After starting in Crvena zvezda and while playing for PAOK, Stojaković was drafted fourteenth overall by the Sacramento Kings in the 1996 NBA draft. In the NBA, he had a breakthrough season in 2000–01 following two seasons on the bench, averaging 20.4 points and 5.8 rebounds while shooting .400 from three-point range in his first season as a starter. He finished second in voting for the 2001 Most Improved Player Award. A three-time All-star and a member of the 2004 All-NBA Second Team, Stojaković enjoyed success with the Kings reaching the 2002 Western Conference Finals. He also played for the Indiana Pacers, New Orleans Hornets and Toronto Raptors. Stojaković won an NBA Championship in 2011 as a member of the Dallas Mavericks. Stojaković led the Yugoslavian national team to gold medals in the 2001 FIBA EuroBasket and the 2002 FIBA World Championship. Often considered to be one of the most successful Serbian basketball players ever, Peđa was named the Euroscar European Basketball Player of the Year by the Italian sports newspaper ''Gazzetta dello Sport'' and the Mister Europa European Player of the Year twice by the Italian sports magazine Superbasket. On December 19, 2011, he announced his retirement from basketball.〔 On December 16, 2014, the Sacramento Kings retired his number. ==Professional career== Stojaković was born into an ethnic Serb family, to parents Miodrag and Branka Stojaković, in Požega, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, but his family fled to Belgrade at the start of the Yugoslav wars. His father stayed and fought in the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina against the Croatian Army until the fall of Western Slavonia (1995), after which he joined his son in Thessaloniki.〔 The Stojakovićs hail from the Papuk mountain region.〔 Many of his relatives now live in Serbia.〔 At 15 years of age (1991–92), he joined the KK Crvena zvezda, for whom he played 2 senior seasons, and won a national championship. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peja Stojaković」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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