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The EuroLeague is the highest level tier and most important professional club competition between basketball teams in Europe. It can contain teams from up to 18 countries, from members of FIBA Europe, and mostly consisting of teams from ULEB member national domestic leagues.
It is intended to include players who are currently active, whether inside or outside the U.S., and former players (both living and deceased). For the purpose of this article, a "European player in the United States" is defined as a citizen of a FIBA Europe member country who was playing in the U.S. while a citizen of said country.
The All-EuroLeague Team is an award for Europe's premier level league, the EuroLeague, that is given to the league's top ten basketball players for each season, since the 2000–01 season. During the FIBA era of the EuroLeague, players were honored first by being a part of the FIBA Festival, and later by being selected to the FIBA EuroStars.
Best Basketball Player of Yugoslavia in the 20th Century; FIBA World Cup MVP ; 2× Mr. Europa (1981, 1982) 2× Euroscar (1981, 1982) Best Athlete of Yugoslavia (1982) FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991) 3× FIBA European Selection (1976, 1978, 1981) FIBA Saporta Cup champion ; 3× Yugoslav League champion (1976, 1979, 1981) Yugoslav Cup winner (1979)
FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991) is the list of the 50 greatest players in the history of FIBA international basketball, as selected in the year 1991, by FIBA Magazine.The list was created in honor of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball, by James Naismith.
The Euroscar European Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given to the year's best male European basketball player. Its name is a portmanteau of Europe and Oscar, and the award is often referred to as "European basketball’s Oscar”. [1] Any player with European citizenship is eligible for the award, regardless of his ...
The 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008) of FIBA European Champions Cup and EuroLeague history were awarded and chosen on February 3, 2008, in Madrid, Spain.The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary since the founding of the inaugural season of the FIBA European Champions Cup, which is officially recognized as the predecessor of today's modern EuroLeague competition, which is the premier ...
The FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award was an annual official FIBA Europe award for the Player of the Year (POY), that was inaugurated in the year 2005, and bestowed until 2014. [1] The winner was a basketball player who had European citizenship, and whose performances with his sports club and/or national team throughout the year had ...