The meeting between the Utah Jazz and the Golden State Warriors, scheduled for Wednesday, is postponed due to the emergency hospitalization of Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic, the franchise and the NBA said in two press releases. “Dejan Milojevic was hospitalized last night in Salt Lake City, Utah, after suffering a medical emergency during a private team dinner,” the Warriors wrote. No further details on the nature of the emergency. ESPN speaks of “a sudden and serious health problem”.
Milojevic, aged 46, was crowned European champion in 2001 with Yugoslavia as a player. First coach of the Serbian club Mega Basket, this close friend of Denver’s Serbian pivot Nikola Jokic was recruited as an assistant coach in 2021 by Steve Kerr’s Warriors, with whom he won the NBA championship title in 2022. The meeting between the Jazz (9th in the Western Conference standings) and the Warriors (12th) has not yet been rescheduled, specifies the NBA.