“It was even hard to imagine I was going to play in the NBA, because so many guys playing in Europe are not even getting to the Euroleague and everything. But everybody wants to play in the NBA. So when draft night came, it was a dream come true.”

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.