Two-time ABA League MVP Luka Bozic has joined the Chinese Guangdong Southern Tigers, as Basketball Sphere reported earlier this week.
Report about Luka Bozic going to China’s CBA League was confirmed by his manager and former basketball player Ivan Zoroski via social media.
“Luka Bozic is heading to China! After an outstanding season in the ACB League, where he established himself as one of the best players in the competition, Luka takes the next big step in his career.
The Croatian national team forward signs with Guangdong Southern Tigers, one of the biggest and most successful clubs in China’s CBA League. A new league. A new challenge. Let’s go Luka”, Zoroski wrote on X.
Luka Božić is heading to China!🇨🇳
— Ivan Zoroski (@tripledoublesm) September 9, 2026
After an outstanding season in the ACB League,where he established himself as one of the best players in the competition,Luka takes the next big step in his career.
The Croatian National Team forward signs with Guangdong Southern Tigers,one of… pic.twitter.com/ArD9Gir35o
Bozic’s great individual season
As a result, Luka Bozic will play in Asia for the first time in his career, serving as one of the foreign players in the Chinese CBA League for a team recently taken over by Serbian head coach Nenad Jakovljevic.
Looking at the statistical parameters, the Croatian national team player fully deserved his inclusion among the 20 candidates for the Liga Endesa MVP award, even though Granada finished near the bottom of the table. He averaged 16.2 points, 6.6 rebounds, just over three assists, and one steal per game.
He previously played for Bjelovar, Pula, Zagreb, Zadar – where he made his biggest mark – Buducnost, Siroki, and spent the last two seasons in Spain playing for Lleida and Granada.
During the 2025/2026 season, Luka Bozic recorded 12 consecutive games with a performance index rating (PIR) of at least 27, setting the record for the best streak in Liga Endesa history.
More than 34 years had passed since Arvydas Sabonis achieved the same streak, holding a record that had stood since the period between January and March 1992.
Bozic also tied the record held by Marc Gasol for the most games with a PIR greater than 30 in a single regular season this century. The brilliant center from Sant Boi had 15 such performances in the 2007/08 season, a mark the Croatian player equaled in 2025/26.
