2016 NBA Draft: Hardest names to pronounce, ranked

3. Rade Zagorac, SG/SG, Serbia

Broadcasters who plan to be working through the second round of this year’s draft need to start brushing up on their Serbian thanks to Rade Zagorac.

The 20-year-old Mega Leks forward, who averaged 13.8 points and 5.9 rebounds in 28.2 minutes per game across 16 contests in the Adriatic League and Serbian League this past season, originally declared for the 2015 NBA Draft before pulling out. He broke his left arm during the opening game of the Adriatic League this past October, which sidelined him for three months, but he returned with a vengeance in mid-January to salvage as much of the campaign as he could.

Despite the injury, “teams are intimately familiar with Zagorac, even with the amount of time he missed with injury, as the club frequently drew top NBA decision-makers when they took the trip across the pond,” according to Matt Kamalsky of DraftExpress. That may help explain why he’s 37th in DX’s latest mock draft, 40th on the latest big board of CBS Sports’ Sam Vecenie and 45th on the latest Top 100 of ESPN’s Chad Ford.

While mock drafts and big boards should hardly be taken as gospel, particularly when it comes to second-round picks, teams will already be scouting Mega Leks tape for Timothe Luwawu, which gives Zagorac a leg up over other international prospects playing for less-heralded teams. According to his agent, Misko Raznatovic, he also has an agreement for an NBA buyout clause in his contract, which could inspire more confidence in teams considering selecting him in the second round.

Assuming he does get snapped up on draft night, analysts should watch this video on an endless loop, as the pronunciation of his name (sounds like “rah-DAY ZAH-gor-ats”) is nowhere near what you’d expect based on the spelling.

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