Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.
Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 200,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the Adriatic islands and the Apennine peninsula.
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Its capital, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics and ethnic Croats.
The color of jerseys is blue.
Currently competes in the A-2 Liga-Jug. Head coach is Mirko Gašpar.
The club is nicknamed "growers". Dalvin stands for Dalmacijavino, a company that was a longtime patron of the club. KK Dalvin was the first club in the former country that had "American style" jerseys.
The club had its most beautiful moments at the end of 1970s when it entered the first division of the former state. They have played only one season in the first division and scored only one victory - in Split against Rabotnički from Skopje.
KK Rabotnički is a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.
Skopje is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic center.
Famous players and coaches
Although not having won titles, some of Croatia's basketball legends originated there.
Dino Rađa, is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. He was a member of the Jugoplastika team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which he helped to win two FIBA European Champions Cup championships. He spent three and a half seasons with the Boston Celtics, being one of the European pioneers in the NBA. Rađa was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991, and one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, as a member of the 2018 class.
Josip "Joke" Vranković is a Croatian basketball coach and former player. Most recently he was a coach of Croatia national basketball team and KK Cibona, but since late November 2011 is unattachedHe currently serving in the Strught Assembly of Croatian Basketball Federation.
Ante Grgurević is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as a head coach for Split of the ABA League and the Croatian League.
Krešimir "Krešo" Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach. He was a collegiate All-American at Brigham Young University.
HNK Hajduk split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a professional Croatian football club founded in 1911, and based in the city of Split. Since 1979, the club's home ground has been the 35,000-seat Stadion Poljud. The team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and socks.
NK Zadar is a Croatian football club based in Zadar, a city on the Adriatic coast, best known for playing in the top flight of Croatian football for almost twenty years. They currently play in the Druga HNL, the Croatian second division.
Roko Leni Ukić is a Croatian professional basketball player for Levallois Metropolitans of the Pro A. Standing at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), he mainly plays at the point guard position, but he can also play at the shooting guard position.
The ABA League, renamed to the ABA League First Division in 2017, commonly known as the Adriatic League First Division, is the 1st-tier regional men's professional basketball league that originally featured clubs from the former Yugoslavia. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league was also known as the Goodyear League from 2001 to 2006, and as the NLB League from 2006 to 2011.
KK Zadar is a Croatian professional basketball team from the city of Zadar playing in the Croatian League and ABA League.
KK Cibona, commonly known as Cibona Zagreb, is a Croatian professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club competes in the ABA League and the Croatian League.
Košarkaški Klub Split is a Croatian professional basketball club from Split, that plays in the Adriatic League and Croatian League.
Ivan Katalinić is a former Croatian footballer and former manager who had a successful playing career with Hajduk Split and Southampton in the 1970s and 1980s. As a member of Hajduk's famous "golden generation" of the 1970s, he won four Yugoslav championships and five consecutive cups.
Damir Mulaomerović is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former professional player. He currently serves as a head coach for Prishtina of the Kosovo Superleague as well as the Kosovo national team.
Nikola "Nikša" Prkačin is a Croatian former professional basketball player.
Franjo Arapović is a former Croatian basketball center - 7 ft 0.5 in (2.15 m) tall - who won the silver medal with the Croatia national basketball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Four years earlier he was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team, that won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Košarkaški klub Zagreb was a professional basketball team based in Zagreb. It competed in the Croatian League and the Adriatic League. In the 2011–12 season Zagreb competed in the modern EuroLeague.
Events from the year 1991 in Croatia.
Josip "Pino" Gjergja, also credited as Giuseppe Giergia, is a retired Croatian basketball player of Albanian descent. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. He was nominated for the EuroLeague's 50 Greatest Contributors list in 2008. He was born in Zadar, to an Arbanasi family, hence the variously transcribed name. At a height of 1.76 m (5'9") tall, he played at the point guard position.
Hrvoje Perić is a Croatian professional basketball player who plays for Alma Pallacanestro Trieste of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) as a power forward.
Josip Sobin is a Croatian professional basketball player for Anwil Włocławek of the Polish Basketball League. He plays at the power forward and center positions. His father Goran Sobin, was also a basketball player and a two-time winner of the European Cup with Jugoplastika.
Dalvin may refer to:
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