title: Mile Protić
text: # Mile Protić
  
  Mile Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миле Протић, born 2 October 1950) is a Serbian former professional basketball coach.
  
  ## Coaching career
  
  Protić coached Belgrade-based team Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav First Federal League over 8 games during the 1978–79 season. He coached Bulgarian team Levski Sofia in the first half of the 1990s where he won two Bulgarian League championships (1992–93, 1993–94) and one Bulgarian Cup (1993).
  
  Protić was a youth coach for Balkan Botevgrad.
  
  Protić was a coach at the Crvena zvezda youth teams. In recent years, he has been working as a youth coach in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
  
  Protić owns a Belgrade-based club Probasket for a youth development.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  In July 2016, Serbian coach Dušan Ivković and Protić reportedly got into a verbal altercation at a basketball clinic in the Šumice Center that nearly turned physical.
  
  