Partizan and Red Star faced off in the first semi-final game of the ABA League, with the Black-Whites hosting. Before the match, a small ceremony was held to honor the most valuable player of the season in this competition—Bogoljub Marković.

The player from Mega received his award before the match between two eternal rivals. As the most valuable player of the ABA League, Marković was given a trophy and an even more valuable gift. This season, one of the ABA League’s sponsors, Changan, which produces automobiles, awarded Marković with a Changan Deepal S05 car, worth around 30,000 euros on the market.

Incidentally, Marković has been in the spotlight this season, as during a game against Red Star, he decided to dribble unnecessarily when everything was nearly over, prompting Saša Obradović to comment that someone would "break his hand" because of it.