Miodrag Raznatovic, Misko, is considered the largest and most powerful representatives of Euroleague players. The Jorge Mendes of basketball. Among them, Thomas Heurtel, who is in the middle of the storm due to his negotiations to dissociate himself from Barça. The Barça team feels deceived both by the player and by his representation agency, BeoBasket, for his attempt to land at Madrid through negotiations behind the club’s back. A movement that ended with the French thrown in Istanbul (Turkey) after the Catalans, in a certainly criticizable and reprehensible decision in the midst of a pandemic, prevented him from getting on the plane with the rest of the expedition back to Spain and made him fly on your own.
Raznatovic (Krusevac, Serbia, 1966) created the aforementioned BeoBasket in 1995 in Belgrade, although four years earlier he was already practicing as a lawyer. From the beginning he began advising basketball players, always linked to the sport of the basket. He knows how to negotiate and the players trust him. Nowadays represents more than 300 players. In the Endesa League, 28 like Barça Brandon Davies and the aforementioned Heurtel. In his portfolio there are also female players, most of the Balkan countries, coaches and, of course, NBA stars: Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets), Ivica Zubac (Los Angeles Clippers), Boban Marjanovic (Dallas Mavericks)…
“BeoBasket is recognized as the agency with the record of players entered in the Euroleague, EuroCup and all the major European national competitions, including the biggest and highest paid deals in Europe. In addition, BeoBasket is the European agency with the largest number of NBA players, (…) it also has the record of players who have participated in the Hoop Summit Game and Treviso Camp ”, says the agency’s cover letter on its website .
“I do what it takes to defend my players”
He was the one who brought Lamar Odom to Vitoria and the one that got Nikola Pekovic to sign a big contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2014: $ 60 million in five years. Crumbs when compared to what Jokic got in his last renewal with the Denver Nuggets: $ 148 million spread over five seasons. Nothing bad.
“What matters to me are my players and I do what is necessary to defend them”, expressed in February 2014 to AS Raznatovic, that he knows perfectly the basketball of the negotiating tables, but also that of the court: he was a basketball player and played for Radnicki, Zeleznik, Ulcini, Napredak, Vojvoda Stepa and Banjica . He did not retire until 2005, at almost 39 years old, after 20 years of professional career.
