Day: March 13, 2024

Partizan forward Tristan Vukcevic has reached a contract buyout agreement. Vukcevic, who turned 21 years old earlier this week, will continue his career in the NBA with the Washington Wizards, per Partizan team president Ostoja Mijailovic.

Vukcevic has played for Partizan for the last three seasons, after beginning his career with Real Madrid. In 30 total games this season, the 6-foot-10 forward has averaged 7.7 points in 14.4 minutes, mostly off Partizan’s bench. Vukcevic has 54/43/84 shooting splits this season.

The Wizards drafted the Serbian/Italian dual-national with the 12th pick in the second round of the 2023 NBA Draft. Vukcevic appeared in four Summer League games for Washington last year. He averaged 11.7 points and 6.5 rebounds per game for the Summer Wizards.

NBA scoring has been down significantly since the All-Star break with teams averaging 111.7 points and 19.9 free throws compared to 115.5 points and 22.7 free throws before.

The NBA had received criticism about the explosion of offense and there is now a widespread belief that referees were asked to call the game differently.

An NBA spokesman, however, told Marc Stein that “there has been no directive from the league office to referees to call games differently.”