Alen Smailagic is the new big-man of Virtus Bologna. The Serbian player, born in 2000, 206 cm tall and 100 kg, arrives from Zalgiris Kaunas, where he ended his third season in Euroleague with 8.1 points and 2.9 rebounds per game with a 35% three-point shot. After a less successful adventure with the Golden State Warriors, Smailagic returned to Europe in the summer of 2022 and spent two years under coach Zeljko Obradovic at Partizan Belgrade, where he was able to enrich his technical baggage and accumulate important experience with that epic playoff series lost to Real Madrid only at game-5 in the 2022-23 season. Smailagic is an extremely versatile player, an excellent attacker, with a great shooting range and deadly accuracy with his feet beyond the arc. The basketball IQ is excellent, of great Serbian school, and, despite the always heated doubts on consistency in the defensive metacampo, he will be a huge addition to the new team of coach Dusko Ivanovic. The third white-black strike is already in the city and is undergoing medical checks, ready to sign a two-year contract with an option for a third season. Alen Smailagic, Serbian big-man born in 2000, 206 cm tall and 100 kg, arrives from Zalgiris Kaunas, where he ended his third season in Euroleague with 8.1 points and 2.9 rebounds per game with a 35% three-point shot. After a less successful adventure with the Golden State Warriors, Smailagic returned to Europe in the summer of 2022 and spent two years under coach Zeljko Obradovic at Partizan Belgrado, where he was able to enrich his technical baggage and accumulate important experience with that epic playoff series lost to Real Madrid only at game-5 in the 2022-23 season. Smailagic is an extremely versatile player, an excellent attacker, with a great shooting range and deadly accuracy with his feet beyond the arc. The basketball IQ is excellent, of great Serbian school, and, despite the always heated doubts on consistency in the defensive metacampo, he will be a huge addition to the new team of coach Dusko Ivanovic.