The Damir Mrsic story dates back to the golden days of Yugoslav basketball. Mrsic made his first steps with Sloboda Dita Tuzla in the late nineties. He was born just a few years after the golden generation of Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoc, Dino Radja and Sasha Djordjevic. Blessed with above average skills, he had just begun to make himself a name – winning the 1992 Yugoslav All Star Game three-point shooting contest - when the war broke out. His native Bosnia was worst hit and Damir soon moved to look elsewhere to fulfill his basketball dream. His first destination was Split, in Croatia, which was still entangled in a bloody civil conflict. He stayed there for three years and ironically, in the year the war in his country finally ended, Mrsic went abroad, moving this time to Turkey. This proved the right move: in his subsequent career, Mrsic played for four Turkish clubs; he led the Turkish league in overall points scored twice and in assists once. He obtained Turkish citizenship and an adoptive name, Demir Kaan. Other than two seasons in the Russian Superleague, Turkey has been his home for nearly ten years. Last season with Fenerbahçe, he was the fourth leading scorer in the league (20.3 ppg) to go along with 4.5 assists per game.