“I was really mad until the 23rd pick and I wasn't selected and my agent told me, 'If nobody selects you, you're going to the Lakers.' So I was hoping to not go in the first round of the draft.”

Croatian basketball player

Ivica Zubac is a Croatian professional basketball player in the NBA, born in 1997. He plays for the Indiana Pacers and for the Croatian national basketball team. He was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the 2016 NBA draft. After playing for the Lakers, he was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers at the 2019 trade deadline. In the 2021 NBA Playoffs, he helped the Clippers reach the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history, and at the 2026 trade deadline he was acquired by the Pacers.