Basketball Ambassador

FIBA Secretary General Borislav Stankovic is the first Yugoslav who had become a member of the legendary "Hall of Fame" in Springfield, U.S., due to his remarkable contribution to the world basketball development. It happened in 1991.

As a basketball player, Stankovic successfully played in Belgrade team Red Star and within the Yugoslav national team took part in the First world championship in Argentina in 1950.

After he had finished his career as a player, Stankovic had been training OKK Beograd for couple of years and then took over Oransoda team from Cantu, thus becoming first foreign coach who won national championship with an Italian club.

He was appointed FIBA Secretary General in 1976 and had become member of IOC in 1988.

Stankovic is responsible for closer connections between the American professional basketball and basketball from "the rest" of the world, which resulted in first appearing of the best NBA players on Olympic Games, in Barcelona 1992.

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