Category | Player Date of Birth | 26.11.1948 Date of Death | 25.05.1995 Position | Center Height | 211cm (6'11") Country | Croatia
Clubs
Zadar: 1964-1969
Brigham Young University (NCAA): 1970-1973
Zadar: 1973-1975
Brest Ljubljana: 1976-1978
Virtus Bologna: 1978-1980
Cibona Zagreb: 1980-1983
Club Highlights
Champion of the 1982 European Cup Winner's Cup
6 times Champion of the Yugoslavian League: 1965,1967,1968,1974,1975 and 1982
4 times Champion of the Yugoslavian Cup: 1970,1981,1982 and 1983
2 times Champion of the Italian League: 1979 and 1980
National Team
303 appearances with the Yugoslavian National Team
Played in 4 consecutive Olympic Games (Mexico 1968,Munich 1972,Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980)
Olympic Gold medalist in Moscow 1980
2 times World Champion: Ljubljana 1970 and Manila 1978
3 times European Champion: Barcelona 1973,Belgrade 1975 and Liege 1977
2 times Olympic Silver medalist: Mexico 1968 and Montreal 1976
2 times Silver medalist in World Championships: Montevideo 1967 and Puerto Rico 1974
3 times Silver medalist in European Championships: Naples 1969,Essen 1971 and Prague 1981
Bronze medalist in the 1979 European Championship in Turin
As a coach of the Yugoslavian National Team: Bronze medalist in the 1986 World Championship in Spain,Bronze medalist in the 1987 European Championship in Athens and Olympic Silver medalist in Seoul 1988
Individual Highlights
First foreign player to earn All-America honors in the NCAA: 1972 and 1973
Freedom Award (contributions to the causes of democracy and human freedom) in 1993
FIBA Order of Merit in 1994
Jersey retired by Brigham Young University in 2006