[4] Following his three-year stint in Čačak, Rajaković was named the head coach for the Crvena zvezda youth system in Belgrade.
In his first season, Rajaković led the Torrelodones to the Primera Division – Community of Madrid Group (5th-tier) title, promoting the team to the Liga EBA.
Rajaković witnessed five of his Tulsa players receive call-ups to the NBA, including four to the Oklahoma City Thunder (Grant Jerrett, Daniel Orton, Mustafa Shakur and Reggie Williams).
[1] During his time with the Thunder, Rajaković helped develop many players, including Steven Adams, Andre Roberson, Terrance Ferguson, Victor Oladipo, Dennis Schröder and Alex Abrines.
That makes a lot of sense when you consider he has been poached twice—Phoenix and Memphis—over the past couple of years by incoming head coaches assembling a staff from scratch.
A European head coach has yet to break through with a sustained career in the NBA, but Rajakovic (Serbia) has the intellect and passion for the craft that makes him the current morning-line favorite to become the first.
The man has authored academic-journal style articles about the evolution of the pick-and-roll, but he's anything but academic in his warmth with players and fellow coaches.On 13 June 2023, Rajaković was hired by the Toronto Raptors as the 10th head coach in franchise history.
[20] On July 18, 2019, Rajaković was hired as an assistant coach for the Serbia men's national basketball team under Aleksandar Đorđević.