Slavko Vranes

Slavko Vraneš (born January 30, 1983 in Pljevlja, Montenegro, then Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. At 2.29 m (7'6") he is one of the tallest basketball players in the world.

Contents Vraneš started playing basketball at FMP Železnik. Still a junior, he was snapped up by Turkey's Efes Pilsen in 2000-2001, but loaned to Antalyaspor. Unadjusted, he returned in January 2001 to Montenegro, playing from 2001-2003 with Buducnost Podgorica.

In 2004, Vraneš played for Red Star Belgrade (January-August), returning afterwards to Buducnost. In October 2007, he signed a three-year contract with another Belgrade-based team, Partizan Belgrade.

Vraneš was selected by the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks in the second round of the 2003 NBA Draft. In the American professional league, he played just one game – during the 2003-04 season, for the Portland Trail Blazers, missing a 15-foot jumper and drawing a foul in the final three minutes in a 96-75 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Target Center. He had been waived by the Knicks in December, and would leave the team before the end of January.