The 1990–91 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 47th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia. It was the last edition that featured Croatian teams.
Teams SR Croatia Cibona POP 84 Šibenka Zadar SR Serbia Crvena Zvezda IMT Partizan Vojvodina SR Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosna Čelik SR Montenegro Budućnost SR Slovenia Smelt Olimpija Regular season Classification Regular season ranking 1990-91GVPPFPSPt 1. POP 84 221931947167941 2. Partizan 221842148190140 3. Cibona 221571971185337 4. Zadar 221391924188535 5. Vojvodina 2210121888190232 6. IMT 2210121857189232 7. Smelt Olimpija 2210121944198632 8. Bosna 228141882199030 9. Crvena Zvezda 228141943204730 10. Budućnost 227151771194329 11. Šibenka 227151821190729 12. Čelik 227151785193029
Results
Playoff
The winning roster of POP 84: Zoran Sretenović Velimir Perasović Toni Kukoč Petar Naumoski Edi Vulić Velibor Radović Zoran Savić Aramis Naglić Žan Tabak Paško Tomić Teo Čizmić Luka Pavićević
Coach: Željko Pavličević
Qualification in 1991-92 season European competitions FIBA European League POP 84 (champions) Partizan (2nd) Cibona (3rd)
FIBA European Cup Smelt Olimpija (playoffs)
FIBA Korać Cup Zadar (4th) Vojvodina (playoffs) Bosna (playoffs)
All-Star Game
The season saw the first ever Yugoslav Basketball League All-Star Game (known as Yu All-Star take place in Sarajevo's Skenderija Hall on Tuesday, 7 May 1991 after the league playoffs ended. The event was not organized by the Yugoslav Basketball Federation (KSJ), but rather as an exhibition showcase put together by the host club KK Bosna and Sarajevo-based Večernje novine daily newspaper.
Red team coached by Duško Vujošević and the White team coached by Željko Pavličević, the 1990-91 Yugoslav League twenty-four best players contested a game that ended 125-114 for the White team.
The Reds (Crveni) consisted of: 4. Željko Obradović, 5. Zdravko Radulović, 6. Velimir Perasović, 7. Jure Zdovc, 8. Radisav Ćurčić, 9. Danko Cvjetićanin, 10. Mario Primorac, 11. Samir Avdić 12. Andro Knego, 13. Zoran Savić, 14. Žarko Paspalj, and Ivica Marić.
The Whites (Bijeli) consisted of: 4. Aleksandar Đorđević, 5. Predrag Danilović, 6. Zoran Sretenović, 7. Toni Kukoč, 8. Zoran Čutura, 9. , 10. Zoran Jovanović, 11. Miroslav Pecarski, 12. , 13. Arijan Komazec, Žan Tabak, and 15. Ivo Nakić.
In addition to the All-Star game, a three-point shootout competition and a dunk contest were held during the game's halftime.
3-point shootout Total of 19 players signed up for the shootout that consisted of 25 shots from five different positions in 60 seconds — five racks of five balls each — with each regular ball made worth one point and the last ball in each rack (moneyball) worth two points. In the preliminary qualification, the best five were chosen for the final that took place during the All-Star Game halftime.
The 3-point shootout finalists were: Danko Cvjetićanin Velimir Perasović Arijan Komazec (winner) Miroljub Mitrović Željko Obradović
Arijan Komazec beat Danko Cvjetićanin in the final due to the better first additional round. In addition to the trophy, he received a money prize of YUD30,000.
Dunk contest Four players made the final: Toni Kukoč (winner) Miroslav Pecarski Samir Avdić Zoran Bacalja, 18-year-old KK Zadar junior player
Five judges for the dunk competition were: Žarko Varajić, Mirza Delibašić, , , and Vinko Jelovac.
Toni Kukoč beat Zoran Bacalja in the final.
Basketball Cup Bracket
References
External links Pearlbasket