By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Andrej Stojakovic, son of former NBA champion, three-time All-Star and Serbian basketball legend Peja Stojakovic hasn’t made a decision on which national team he’ll choose to play for. Stojakovic is eligible to join either Greece or Serbia via his mother and father respectively.
“I haven’t thought about it all. I don’t think about the national team I’ll play with,” Stojakovic said in an interview with COSMOTE TV. He was born in Greece in 2004. |Now, my biggest priority is Stanford and how we’ll go this year. When the time comes and a national team asks me to join them, that’s when I’ll discuss it.”
“I’ll wait. As my father tells me, if I’m good, everybody will want me,” Stojakovic added. “When the time comes I’ll decide about it. Greece, Serbia. It doesn’t matter to me, I’ll be happy to play with either of them.”
Stojakovic is getting ready for his freshman year at Stanford. He mentioned that he picked this college over other famous programs, like Kentucky or Louisville both for academic reasons and because it’s closer to home at Sacramento.
“I’m very happy to choose this college, we managed to go to France for my teammate Maxime [Raynaud] and now that we have come to Greece and my family has come here. I can’t describe this, I’m very happy.”
Being the son of someone like Peja Stojakovic, Andrej is fully aware of the hype that comes with it.
“Hype comes with basketball and the name,” he said. “The fact that everybody is following me and watching me play is part of the gig. But I’ll try, as my father tells me as well, to stay in the moment and not think about what others think about me.”
Stojakovic would love to follow in his father’s footsteps and have a career in the NBA but he’s not thinking that far ahead for now.
“First of all, to stay healthy and be happy with whatever I do,” Stojakovic said. “Of course, the NBA is the goal. But you never know. This is the biggest thing I’ve understood this year. To not be affected by my time in Stanford, and whatever other thinks about me. I’ll do things with my own rhythm and we’ll see.”