A three-time All-EuroLeague Team member, he won the EuroLeague title with FC Barcelona in 2010.

[1] Lorbek attended Michigan State University in the U.S., where he played college basketball for Tom Izzo and the Spartans.

Lorbek won the EuroLeague 2004–05 season's Rising Star award, and originally declared for the 2004 NBA draft, but he ultimately withdrew his name from consideration.

[2] Lorbek began the 2006–07 season on loan from the Spanish league club Unicaja Málaga to the Italian league club Benetton Treviso; however, in February 2007, the deal was voided by the Italian Basketball Federation, due to unspecified violations of federation regulations.

Lorbek then signed with Lottomatica Roma of the Italian league in 2007, where he became one of the best power forwards of the EuroLeague.

[15] In 2016, Lorbek joined the San Antonio Spurs' 2016 NBA Summer League roster.

He was one of the top players of the 2009 tournament, and earned the power forward position in the All-Tournament Team.

[18] In 2011, Lorbek said that he didn't want to play for the Slovenian national team at EuroBasket 2011, just 15 minutes before Slovenia's training camp started.