Nikola Vučević

Boro Vučević ended up playing professionally for 24 years, a journeyman career with stops in Yugoslavia, Switzerland, and Belgium, the highlight of which was being on the KK Bosna roster that won the European Champions Cup in 1979 in addition to several Yugoslavia national team appearances, primarily at the 1983 Mediterranean Games in Casablanca, Morocco and EuroBasket 1985 in West Germany.

Vučević's Serb mother, Ljiljana Kubura, also played basketball professionally as a 6-foot-2 forward for the Sarajevo club Željezničar, as well as for the Yugoslavia women's national team.

Furthermore, even Nikola's extended family is immersed in professional sports with his paternal uncle Savo Vučević having played professional basketball before going into coaching and his aunt Ljiljana Mugoša who played handball professionally.

Nikola Vučević (Никола Вучевић, ; born 24 October 1990) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The youngster was primarily raised in Belgium where the family moved in 1992 when his father got a professional contract there.

The Vučević family moved to Montenegro within the Serbia and Montenegro state union in 2003 during Nikola's pre teens, settling in the coastal town of Bar, his father's hometown.

Identifying youth basketball work in Belgium to be inferior compared to that in the Balkan countries, Boro Vučević's primary motivation for moving the family to Montenegro was giving his talented adolescent son Nikola a better chance at developing his basketball skills during a critical juncture in his basketball development.

The youngster began training within KK Mornar's youth system while his father simultaneously took over a youth team coaching post at the club.

In January 2006, while returning home to Bar from the KK Mornar youth team winter training in Kolašin, fifteen-year-old Vučević and his father survived the Bioče derailment, a train crash in Montenegro that killed 47 people and injured nearly 200 others.

In 2007, seventeen-year-old Vučević was named Montenegro's Best Young Player.

Vučević moved to Simi Valley, California in the United States in October 2007 to play his senior year of high school at Stoneridge Prep.

He knew little English, but did speak French, which many of his teammates also spoke.

Under coach Babacar Sy, a friend of his father's, he was team captain and led the team in scoring and rebounding with 18 points and 12 rebounds per game.

Vučević played three seasons with the Trojans of the University of Southern California.

Vučević missed the first eight games of the season while waiting to have his amateur status confirmed by the NCAA Clearinghouse.

He averaged 2.6 points and 2.7 rebounds in 23 games in three starts.

Vučević played in his first game with USC on 15 December 2008, against Pepperdine, and had two points, two blocks, and two rebounds in six minutes.

He made his first start of the season on 24 January 2009, at Washington State in the Trojans' 46–44 win with a season-high eight points and five rebounds.

He also scored eight points on 9 February 2009 at UCLA, and in his second start of the season on 19 February against Washington State.

Vučević had a season-best seven rebounds in that game and matched that total on 5 March 2009, vs. Oregon.

Vučević scored six points and had four rebounds in the NCAA second-round loss to Michigan State on 22 March.

In all, he made 57.8 percent of his shots from the field (26-for-45).

Vučević began to excel in his sophomore season.

He scored 18 points and had eight rebounds in the first game of the season against UC Riverside on 17 November 2009, both totals better than any of his freshman games.

Vučević had 18 points and 14 rebounds at Texas on 3 December 2009.

He scored a career-high 19 points and had 11 rebounds vs. Loyola Marymount on 21 November 2009, for his first career double-double.

Vučević was named the 2009–10 Pac-10 Most Improved Player, and earned all-Pac-10 second team and Pac-10 honorable-mention all-defensive team honors.

He had the second-most blocks ever in a season by a Trojan sophomore and the third-most rebounds.

Vučević started all 30 games for USC and posted 10 double-doubles.

As a junior, Vučević averaged 17.1 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.

He matched his career high with 19 points on 9-of-12 shooting at UCLA on 16 January 2010, scoring 17 points in the second half.

By the end of the year, he had led USC in scoring five times and in rebounding 20 times, including the last nine games.

Overall, he was the second-best scorer and leading rebounder on the Trojans, with 10.7 points and 9.4 rebounds per game.

Vučević led the Pac-10 with 283 rebounds and offensive rebounds per game (6.3) and his 39 blocks were the fourth most in the conference.

Vučević's .504 shooting percentage (126-for-250) led USC and was seventh best in the Pac-10.

He played college basketball for the USC Trojans before being drafted 16th overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.

Vučević, who spent his rookie season with the 76ers, was traded to Orlando Magic before the start of the 2012–13 season as a part of the four-team trade that sent Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers.

He played nine seasons for the Magic and was named an NBA All-Star twice during his tenure with the team.

In the middle of the 2020–21 season, the Magic traded Vučević to the Chicago Bulls.

Vučević was born in Morges, Switzerland during the time his professional basketball player father, Boro, played for a club based in nearby Lausanne.