Slaven Rimac


Slaven Rimac is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player.
His mother, Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, brother Davor Rimac and aunt, Kornelija Meglaj, were all professional basketball players.

Playing career

Rimac led the 1996–97 EuroLeague in free throws shooting percentage 93.1%. He retired from professional basketball in May 2012, as a member of the French club EB Pau-Orthez.

National team career

Rimac was a member of the senior Croatia national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and EuroBasket 1997.

Coaching career

Cibona (2013–2015)

On 14 November 2013, Rimac was named a head coach for Cibona, following the departure of Neven Spahija.
He led Cibona to winning the 2014 ABA League championship, despite the huge financial problems that the club was facing at the time. As the champion of the ABA League, Cibona gained a direct spot in the following EuroLeague season, but the club withdrew from it in order to stabilize financially. Eventually, Crvena zvezda, the third placed team in the league, took Cibona's spot in the EuroLeague.
He was sacked in Cibona on 6 December 2015, after a series of poor results in the ABA League.

Cedevita (2017–2019)

From 2017 to 2018, Rimac worked as an assistant coach for Cedevita, under the coaching staff of Jure Zdovc, while from June 2018 to October 2018, he worked as the head coach of the Cedevita second team, that has played in the Croatian League.
On 25 October 2018, following the departure of Sito Alonso who led the first team in the ABA League and EuroCup, Rimac was named his successor as the head coach.
Following Cedevita's merge with Petrol Olimpija in July 2019, he left the club, becoming the first head coach for Cedevita Olimpija in the newly-formed club history.

Cedevita Olimpija (2019–2020)

On 8 July 2019, Rimac was named a head coach for the newly formed club Cedevita Olimpija. On 27 January 2020, he was replaced by Jurica Golemac as the head coach.