All Bulls center Nikola Vucevic did in five games in the EuroBasket tournament this summer was lead Montenegro in scoring (20.8 points), rebounding (11.6) and minutes played (33.9) and shoot a ridiculous 56.3% from three-point range. Afterward, he announced that, at 34, he had played in his last international competition. ‘‘The biggest impact on that was my family, my kids, my wife,’’ Vucevic said. ‘‘It takes a lot out of my summers. You’ve got training camp for a month, the competition, the preparation for it, so I just felt like it was the right moment to do it. I wanted to finish my national-team competition on a high. That was it.’’

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