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Toni Kukoč won three NBA championships, all with the Chicago Bulls, in 1996, 1997, and 1998. He came off the bench as the sixth man in each of the final two championship runs and was the team's leading scorer off the bench in both the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals.
Toni Kukoč won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 1996, the same season the Bulls went 72-10. He became the fourth player in league history to win that award and the NBA title in the same year, joining Kevin McHale, Bill Walton, and Bobby Jones.
Toni Kukoč was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. He had previously been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2017.
Kukoč signed with Benetton Treviso in 1991 for a contract worth $23 million over six years, an average annual salary of $3.8 million. At the time, this made him one of the highest-paid basketball players in the world.
Toni Kukoč won two Olympic silver medals: one at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games representing Yugoslavia and one at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona representing Croatia.
The nickname "the Waiter" was one of several Kukoč collected during his career in European basketball, alongside "the Spider from Split", "the Pink Panther", "Euro Magic", and "the Croatian Sensation." The source does not specify the precise origin of the name, but it was in use throughout his time in Italy and carried into his NBA years.