The Yugoslavia men's national basketball team represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in international basketball, and was controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia.
Aleksandar "Saša" Đorđević or Sale Đorđević is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as a head coach for the senior China. During his playing career, he was listed as a 1.88 m (6'2") 90 kg (198 lb.) point guard.
Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a Russian professional basketball player and coach. The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
Košarkarski klub Olimpija was a men's professional basketball club based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Cesare Rubini was an Italian professional basketball player and coach, and a water polo player. He was considered to be one of the greatest European basketball coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, making him the first, and to this day, just one of three Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, alongside Dino Meneghin and Sandro Gamba. He was also inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000.
Gregor Fučka is a Slovenian-Italian former professional basketball player and coach. A 215 cm forward-center, he was a both a Mister Europa and Euroscar laureate in 2000.
Marko Milič is a Slovenian basketball coach and former player currently working as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He represented the senior Slovenian national basketball team.
Žarko Varajić was a Montenegrin basketball player and executive. He represented the Yugoslavia national team internationally.
Dušan "Duda" Ivković was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He served as head coach of the senior Serbian national basketball team from 2007 to 2013, and of the senior Yugoslavian national basketball team, from 1987 to 1995. He was also the president of the Serbian club BKK Radnički.
Ivo Daneu is a retired Slovenian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, at a height of 1.84 m (6'0") tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.
Jurij "Jure" Zdovc is a Slovenian former professional basketball player and coach. He was most recently the head coach of Bursaspor of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). As a player, he was a 1.98 m (6'6") tall point guard, who began his professional playing career with the Yugoslav Second Division club Smelt Olimpija.
Dragan Kićanović is a Serbian and Yugoslav retired professional basketball player.
Saša Obradović is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for AS Monaco of the French LNB Pro A.
Zoran "Moka" Slavnić is a Serbian retired professional basketball player and coach. He played with Crvena zvezda and with Partizan. One of the best European point guards of all time, he was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991 and became a FIBA Hall of Fame player in 2013.
Basketballin Greece erupted with the win of the Greece men's national basketball team at the 1987 EuroBasket in Athens, which caused a general basketball euphoria in the country. Since then, the Greece men's national teams have achieved consistent international success, leading Greece to join Russia, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France, and Lithuania in the circle of European basketball powers. In addition to the Greece national team's triumph in 1987, they won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket, silver medals at the 1989 EuroBasket, and the 2006 FIBA World Cup, and the bronze medal at the 2009 EuroBasket.
Peter Vilfan is a Slovenian former professional basketball player, sports journalist, commentator, and a politician. He resigned from the National Assembly due to DUI in 2014, and from the State Secretary position in 2019 amid tax evasion proceedings.
Petar Skansi was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, he played for Jugoplastika and Maxmobili Pesaro. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that silver medalled at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Basketballin Slovenia is governed by the Basketball Federation of Slovenia. Slovenia has participated in international basketball as an independent nation since 1991, when the country gained independence from SFR Yugoslavia.
Miodrag "Sija" Nikolić was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.
Žarko Đurišić, also credited as Zarko Durisic, is a Montenegrin-born Slovenian basketball scout, former player, and former coach who is currently the Director of international player personnel for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
