Records of Dalipagic, Varajic and Danilovic

The best scorer of the Yugoslav basketball ever is Drazen Dalipagic. Playing for the Belgrade Partizan team, he was twice the best scorer of the league - in 1977 (34,6 points per match) and in 1982 (42,9).

It was hard to stop Drazen Dalipagic...

While playing for the Yugoslav national team, he took part in 243 games and recorded 3,131 points. With a total of 562 points he is firmly positioned first on the list of best scorers of the Yugoslav national team in the World Championships, ahead of Dragan Kicanovic. In the 8th World Championship in Manila in 1978, when Yugoslavia won a golden medal for the second time, Dalipagic was the best scorer (200 points) and the best player.

While playing in Italy, he was the best scorer of the league five times, and according to the scored points per game average, he is the best scorer of Italian Championships ever.

Zarko Varajic

The record in the number of points scored in the final matches of the European Champions' Cup (now the Euroleague) is held by a Yugoslav, Zarko Varajic, who, playing for the Sarajevo Bosna against the Italian Emerson in 1979 recorded as much as 47 points.

Predrag Danilovic is a Yugoslav basketball player with the greatest number of golden medals won in the European Championships. When he was 19 years old, he was the youngest member of the Yugoslav national team, which, in 1989, in Zagreb, won the first place. Two years later, in Rome, the same happened - by defeating Italy in the finals, Yugoslavia successfully finishes yet another quest towards the European basketball top, and Danilovic added another golden medal to his collection.

Predrag Danilovic

In the first bigger contest after the lifting of sanctions, in Athens in 1995, the Yugoslav basketball players only picked up where they left off, forcibly, four years ago in Rome, defeating, in a thrilling final match, the national team of Lithuania. The key roles of yet another triumph in the European Championships, were, aside from Djordjevic, played by Divac, Bodiroga, Savic and - Danilovic.

In Spain in 1997, the Yugoslav basketball players were, for the fourth time in a row, the best in Europe, and Danilovic enters the history of the Yugoslav basketball as the first and, for now, the only basketball player who won four golden medals in the European Championships.

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