EuroLeague Legend basketball coach Dušan Ivković, who was Jarić's head coach on the Radnički Belgrade youth team, stated that Jarić was the, "biggest talent that he ever had under his charge".
He played with the Yugoslav clubs Radnički Belgrade (under head coach Slobodan "Piva" Ivković), Šibenka (under head coaches Vlado Djurović and Zoran "Moka" Slavnić), and IMT Belgrade.
With Šibenka, where he was a teammate of Dražen Petrović, Jarić also won the Yugoslav First Federal League championship of the 1982–83 season.
On the European-wide level, in Europe's premier level competition, the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague)'s 1973–74 season, Jarić led Radnički Belgrade to the competition's semifinals.
[5] Jarić was born in Kikinda, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia.