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NextGen Belgrade Group B Rosters: FMP, Hapoel, INSEP, Partizan

The Adidas NextGen EuroLeague tour finishes in Belgrade with three former champs on board: FMP, INSEP and Zvezda. Here is a breakdown of the rosters in Group B.

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David Hein
Mar 18, 2026
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The Adidas NextGen EuroLeague returns after less than a week after its third stop on the qualifying tour with the fourth and final event in Belgrade from March 20-22. The tournament in the Serbian capital will be headlined by three former champions: hosts and 2014 winners Crvena Zvezda Belgrade as well as the pair of two-time winners 2008 and 2009 champs FMP Belgrade and 2010 and 2017 title holders Pole France INSEP Paris.

The eight-team field also includes Anadolu Efes Istanbul from Türkiye, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv from Israel, the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade and the Next Gen Team Belgrade.

Eight teams will fight it out at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall with the first place finisher gaining a spot at the Adidas NextGen Finals at the EuroLeague Final Four in Athens in May. The winner will join Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana and FC Barcelona in Greece after the Slovenian and Spanish clubs claimed the crowns at the NextGen Ulm and NextGen Bologna tournaments, respectively.

The two groups are broken down as followed: Group A: Efes, Maccabi, NGB and Zvezda; Group B: FMP, Hapoel, INSEP and Partizan .

The two group winners will face off in Sunday’s first place game while the second placed finishers in the group will square off for third place and places 5-8 will also be played out.

Here is a breakdown of the rosters from the four teams in Group B


FMP Belgrade

FMP returns to the competition for the first time since the 2010-11 season and eighth time in total. The Belgrade side was a NextGen powerhouse for a time as it reached the NextGen Championship Game in four straight seasons from 2007 to 2010 and won back-to-back titles in 2008 and 2009. The Serbian club Dynamic Belgrade merged with FMP in the summer of 2025.

Lazar Miličić - 2009 - SRB

Miličić will be playing in his first NextGen competition. He is averaging 9.8 ppg 2.8 rpg 1.9 apg 1.3 spg in the Serbian U19 league as well as 1.5 ppg in four games in the Serbian top flight. And he is totalling 14.5 ppg 4.9 rpg 3.8 apg 1.9 spg in the U17 league.

Miličić helped Serbia win the title at the FIBA U16 EuroBasket 2025 with 6.1 ppg 2.3 rpg 1.0 apg. The Novi Sad native is the son for former Serbian national team player and No. 2 pick in the 2003 NBA Draft Darko Miličić. Lazar used to play with CB Las Rozas (CBLR) in Spain.

He was with the Serbian U15 national team in the summer of 2024 and was a guest player for Real Madrid in the 2023 U14 Future Stars Zuera tournament. Lazar’s sister Lara Miličić plays tennis.

His Instagram profile reads: “С вером у Бог” - “With faith in God”. He took part in the Jr NBA in July 2023.

In an interview after the cadet European championship Darko said of his son: “He’s a guy and he’s already surpassed me in every way. I hope he continues to improve - both spiritually, humanly and basketball-wise.”

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