50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 50 Greatest Contributors in Euroleague History were chosen on February 3, 2008, in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary since the founding of the FIBA European Champions Cup

Fiba European Champions Cup and Euroleague history

-FIBA Champions Cup for men's clubs-origins and early history :L'Equipe is widely credited for birthing the idea of European club competition, first and foremost in European football . Basketball was soon to latch onto the quickly successful idea and the idea was discussed by FIBA during the 1957...

, officially recognized as the predecessor to today's Euroleague

Euroleague

Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...

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The list was made up of the Euroleague's

Euroleague

35 all-time greatest players, 10 greatest coaches, and 5 greatest referees. It also included other nominees for each category, all together, 105 players, 20 coaches, and 12 referees.

Euroleague's 35 Greatest All-Time Players

Serbia:

- Radivoj Korać
  Radivoj Korac
  Radivoj Korać , sometimes also Radivoje, was a successful Serbian basketball player from Yugoslavia....
  
  (1953-69)
- Dražen Dalipagić
  Dražen Dalipagic
  Dražen Dalipagić , born in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Yugoslavian basketball player. He was enshrined as a player in the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.-Yugoslavian national team:...
  
  (1971-91)
- Vlade Divac
  Vlade Divac
  Vlade Divac is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the NBA. At , he played center and was known for his passing skills...
  
  (1985-05)
- Aleksandar Đorđević (1985-05)
- Predrag Danilović
  Predrag Danilovic
  Predrag "Saša" Danilović , usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilovic , is a retired professional basketball player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s...
  
  (1987-00)
- Dejan Bodiroga
  Dejan Bodiroga
  Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....
  
  (1990-07) Italy:
- Aldo Ossola
  Aldo Ossola
  Aldo Ossola is an Italian former basketball player who was a playmaker with a great ability to set the rhythm for his team....
  
  (1964-80)
- Dino Meneghin
  Dino Meneghin
  Dino Meneghin is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is widely considered as the best Italian player ever, as well as one of Europe's all time greats. A 2.06 m tall center, Meneghin was born in Alano di Piave, Veneto...
  
  (1966-94)
- Pierluigi Marzorati
  Pierluigi Marzorati
  Pierluigi Marzorati is an Italian former basketball player who won the silver medal with Italy at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the title in the 1983 European Championship, plus three bronze medals at the 1971, 1975 and 1985 European Championships.Marzorati eventually played 278 matches for...
  
  (1970-91, 2006)
- Antonello Riva
  Antonello Riva
  Antonello Riva is an Italian retired basketball player. Nicknamed "Nembo Kid", he started playing basketball in 1977-78....
  
  (1977-02) Spain:
- Emiliano Rodríguez
  Emiliano Rodríguez
  Emiliano Rodríguez is a retired Spanish basketball player.On the club level, he played for Aismalibar and Real Madrid...
  
  (1958-73)
- Clifford Luyk
  Clifford Luyk
  Clifford Luyk Diem, is a former Spanish American basketball player.Luyk was athletic, talented and possessed great low-post skills, highlighted by his trademark, old-school hook shot....
  
  (1958-78)
- Wayne Brabender
  Wayne Brabender
  Wayne Donald Brabender Cole is a retired American-Spanish basketball player, who acquired Spanish citizenship on May 22, 1968....
  
  (1965-85)
- Juan Antonio Corbalán (1971-91)
- Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi"
  Juan Antonio San Epifanio
  Juan Antonio San Epifanio Ruiz is a retired Spanish basketball player, considered one of the greatest small forwards ever to play in Europe...
  
  (1976-95) Croatia:
- Krešimir Ćosić
  Krešimir Cosic
  Krešimir Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player who represented Yugoslavia internationally, a member of FIBA Hall of Fame and Basketball Hall of Fame...
  
  (1964-83)
- Dražen Petrović
  Dražen Petrovic
  Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989...
  
  (1979-93)
- Dino Rađa (1984-03)
- Toni Kukoč
  Toni Kukoc
  Toni Kukoč is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. He was renowned for his versatility and passing ability; although his natural position was small forward, he played all five positions on the court with prowess and demonstrated court vision and an outside shooting touch that were...
  
  (1985-06) Greece:
- Nikos Galis (1975-95)
- Panagiotis Giannakis
  Panagiotis Giannakis
  Panagiotis Giannakis , nicknamed "The Dragon", is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. He is the former head coach of the pro club Olympiacos, and the Greek National Basketball Team. Under Giannakis' guidance, the Greek National team won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket...
  
  (1976-96)
- Fragiskos Alvertis
  Fragiskos Alvertis
  Fragiskos Alvertis is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He was the captain of the Panathinaikos basketball team...
  
  (1990-09)
- Theodoros Papaloukas
  Theodoros Papaloukas
  Theódoros "Teó" Papaloukás is a Greek professional basketball player. He currently plays as a point guard for the Israeli League, Adriatic League and Euroleague club Maccabi Tel Aviv....
  
  (1995-Present) USA:
- Walter Szczerbiak
  Walter Szczerbiak
  Walter Szczerbiak is a former American basketball player.He won three Euroleague titles with Real Madrid ....
  
  (1967-84)
- Bob Morse
  Bob Morse
  Robert "Bob" Morse is an American former basketball player.His tremendous scoring ability helped the great Ignis Varese of the seventies to lift three Euroleague titles in seven consecutive final appearances.On February 3, 2008, Morse was chosen as one of the 50 most influential personalities to...
  
  (1968-86)
- Bob McAdoo (1969-93)
- Mike D'Antoni
  Mike D'Antoni
  Michael Andrew "Mike" D'Antoni is an Italian-American former basketball player and is currently the head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks. While head coach of the Phoenix Suns, he won NBA Coach of the Year honors for the 2004–05 NBA season after the Suns posted 33 more wins than the previous...
  
  (1969-90)
- Anthony Parker
  Anthony Parker
  Anthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association . After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA Draft and played briefly in the NBA before...
  
  (1993-Present) Lithuania:
- Arvydas Sabonis
  Arvydas Sabonis
  Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...
  
  (1981-05)
- Šarūnas Jasikevičius
  Šarunas Jasikevicius
  Šarūnas Jasikevičius is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who plays for Panathinaikos BC. He is a member of the Lithuanian national team, and plays the point guard position.-Early years:...
  
  (1994-Present) Russia:
- Sergei Belov
  Sergei Belov
  Sergei Alexandrovich Belov is a former basketball player, most notably playing for the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. He trained at Trud Voluntary Sports Society and later at Armed Forces sports society.- Career :...
  
  (1964-80) Bosnia and Herzegovina:
- Mirza Delibašić
  Mirza Delibašic
  Mirza Delibašić was a Bosnian basketball player. He was born in Tuzla, located in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the former Yugoslavia.- Career :...
  
  (1972-83) Israel:
- Mickey Berkowitz (1971-95) Argentina:
- Emanuel "Manu" Ginóbili
  Manu Ginobili
  Emanuel David "Manu" Ginóbili is an Argentine professional basketball player. Coming from a family of professional basketball players, he is a member of the Argentine men's national basketball team and the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association .Ginóbili spent the early part of...
  
  (1996-Present) Mexico:
- Manuel "Manolo" Raga
  Manuel Raga
  Manuel Raga Navarro is a retired Mexican basketball player.-Career:Nicknamed the "Flying Mexican", Raga played professionally for Pallacanestro Varese in Italy from 1968 to 1973 and won 3 Euroleague championships.In 1970, he became the first player from an international league to be selected in...
  
  (1963-77)

Other player nominees

USA:

- Miles Aiken
  Miles Aiken
  Miles Aiken is an American former basketball player. He played the power forward position for Real Madrid in the late 60's and lifted with them two consecutive Euroleague titles in 1967 and 1968. He had 23 points in the 1967 final to help Real Madrid beat Simmenthal Milano, and then led all scorers...
  
  (1960-70)
- Bill Bradley
  Bill Bradley
  William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in a suburb of St....
  
  (1965-66)
- Michael Jordan
  Michael Jordan
  Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats...
  
  (1984-03)
- Aulcie Perry
  Aulcie Perry
  Aulcie Perry is a retired American-Israeli basketball player. He led Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. to two European championships during his nine seasons with the team. In 1987, Perry was convicted of drug-smuggling.-Early life:...
  
  (1970-85)
- Bruce Flowers
  Bruce Flowers
  Bruce Flowers is a former American basketball player. A 2.04 m tall forward, he was drafted 26th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1979 NBA Draft, but only appeared in one NBA season...
  
  (1975-87)
- Larry Wright
  Larry Wright (basketball)
  Larry Glenn Wright is a former American professional basketball player and former Grambling State University men's basketball team head coach, his alma mater...
  
  (1975-88)
- Clarence Kea
  Clarence Kea
  Clarence Leroy Kea is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'6" 218 lb small forward and played collegiately at Lamar University....
  
  (1976-94)
- Kevin Magee
  Kevin Magee (basketball)
  Kevin Dornell Magee , was an American basketball player. He played in the power forward position, height 6-8 and weight 230 ....
  
  (1977-94)
- Audie Norris
  Audie Norris
  Audie James Norris is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'9" 230 lb center and played collegiately at Jackson State University from 1978 to 1982. He played for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers from 1982 to 1985...
  
  (1978-94)
- Corny Thompson
  Corny Thompson
  Cornelius "Corny" Allen Thompson is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'8" 225 lb power forward who occasionally also played the center position...
  
  (1978-96)
- Dominique Wilkins
  Dominique Wilkins
  Jacques Dominique Wilkins is a retired American professional basketball player who primarily played for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA...
  
  (1979-99)
- Michael Young
  Michael Young (basketball)
  Michael Wayne Young is a retired American basketball player. After a 15-year playing career spent in the NBA and overseas, he is currently the director of basketball operations and performance enhancement at the University of Houston, his alma mater.- College :Young, a native Houstonian, played...
  
  (1980-96)
- Johnny Rogers
  Johnny Rogers
  John Bernard Rogers Bakker is a retired American professional basketball player. Listed at 6'10" and 225 lbs he played the power forward position and played collegiately at Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine.- NBA :Rogers was selected with the 10th pick of the second...
  
  (1981-04)
- Joe Arlauckas
  Joe Arlauckas
  Joseph John 'Joe' Arlauckas is a retired American professional basketball player, in the power forward position.-College/NBA career:...
  
  (1983-00)
- David Rivers
  David Rivers
  David Lee Rivers is a retired American basketball player. An explosive point guard, he reached star status in the Euroleague, mostly playing for Olympiacos Piraeus under coach Dusan Ivkovic....
  
  (1984-01)
- Derrick Sharp
  Derrick Sharp
  Derrick Sharp is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player, and current basketball assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv.Sharp was born in Orlando, Florida...
  
  (1990-Present)
- Marcus Brown
  Marcus Brown
  Marcus James Brown is a retired American professional basketball player. At 6'4" , he played as a shooting guard. Brown has been mentioned as being one of the top U.S. athletes to ever play abroad...
  
  (1992-Present)
- Tyus Edney
  Tyus Edney
  Tyus Dwayne Edney is an American professional basketball player. A point guard for UCLA from 1991–1995, Edney led the Bruins to the 1995 NCAA National Championship. He also led Žalgiris Kaunas to the 1999 Euroleague title...
  
  (1993-Present) Croatia:
- Josip Đerđa
  Josip Đerđa
  Josip Gjergja is a retired Croatian basketball player...
  
  (1958-76)
- Mihovil Nakić-Vojnović
  Mihovil Nakić
  Mihovil Nakić-Vojnović is a former Croatian basketball player. A 2.04 m tall forward, he spent most of his career in Cibona, which he helped to back to back Euroleague titles in 1985 and 1986 as well as the Saporta Cup in 1987, always backing the great Dražen Petrović. He also won the 1982 Saporta...
  
  (1974-88)
- Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović
  Aleksandar Petrovic (basketball)
  Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former professional player. Petrović is also the older brother of the late Dražen Petrović.-Playing career:...
  
  (1979-92)
- Velimir Perasović
  Velimir Perasovic
  Velimir Perasović is a basketball coach and former player from Croatia.Perasović was born in Split, in the former Yugoslavia, and grew up in the nearby Stobreč...
  
  (1984-03)
- Stojan "Stojko" Vranković
  Stojko Vrankovic
  Stojan "Stojko" Vranković is a retired Croatian basketball player who also represented Yugoslavia....
  
  (1985-02)
- Nikola Vujčić
  Nikola Vujcic
  Nikola Vujčić is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is 2.11 m tall. He can play at both the center and power forward positions. He last played for Efes Pilsen SK for the 2010–11 season.-Player profile:...
  
  (1995-Present) Serbia:
- Zoran "Moka" Slavnić
  Zoran Slavnić
  Zoran "Moka" Slavnić is a Serbian retired basketball player and current coach. He played with KK Crvena zvezda for 10 senior seasons. One of the best European point gards of all time. With KK Crvena zvezda he won 2 National Championships, 3 National Cups and one Saporta Cup. He also won ACB with...
  
  (1963-83)
- Dragan Kićanović
  Dragan Kicanovic
  Dragan Kićanović is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. A 1.91m tall shooting guard, he played in the 70's and 80's and is considered as one of the best European players and scorers of all time, having won both the Mr. Europa and the Euroscar European Player of the Year awards in...
  
  (1966-84)
- Žarko Varajić
  Žarko Varajic
  Žarko Varajić is a retired Montenegrin basketball player that represented SFR Yugoslavia as a player, including at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal.In 1979, Varajić scored 45 points - the record in the number of points scored in the final matches of...
  
  (1969-84)
- Žarko Paspalj
  Žarko Paspalj
  Žarko Paspalj is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and current sports administrator...
  
  (1982-99)
- Zoran Savić
  Zoran Savic
  Zoran Savić is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. The 208 cm forward played in various European nations.-Career:...
  
  (1986-02)
- Željko Rebrača
  Željko Rebraca
  Željko Rebrača is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. Formerly in the NBA, he finished his career with the Spanish ACB League team Pamesa Valencia.-Europe:He began his professional career in 1991 with KK Partizan...
  
  (1991-07) Spain:
- Rafael Rullan
  Rafael Rullan
  Rafael Rullan Ribera is a retired Spanish basketball player. A talented center whose versatility and range helped also play the power forward position, he was one of the stars of Real Madrid throughout the seventies and the eighties.Rullan was a major contributor to Real's three Euroleague titles...
  
  (1969-88)
- Ignacio "Nacho" Solozábal
  Ignacio Solozábal
  Ignacio "Nacho" Solozábal is a retired Spanish basketball player. Solozábal, a 1.85 m point guard, spent his entire career with FC Barcelona from 1979 to 1992...
  
  (1975-92)
- Fernando Martín
  Fernando Martín Espina
  Fernando Martín Espina is considered one of the best Spanish basketball players ever....
  
  (1979-89)
- Jordi Villacampa
  Jordi Villacampa
  Jordi Villacampa Amorós is a retired basketball player of Joventut Badalona and the present chairman of the club....
  
  (1980-97)
- Juan Carlos Navarro
  Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball)
  Juan Carlos Navarro Feijoo , nicknamed "La Bomba" , is a Spanish professional basketball player...
  
  (1997-Present) Italy:
- Carlo Recalcati
  Carlo Recalcati
  Carlo Recalcati is an Italian basketball coach and a former player.He has been the coach of the Italy national basketball team from 2001 to 2009 and has led them to the silver medal in the 2004 Olympics and bronze medal in the Eurobasket 2003.As a player on the club level, he played for...
  
  (1967-79)
- Roberto Brunamonti
  Roberto Brunamonti
  Roberto Brunamonti is a retired Italian basketball player, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, four national championships , one Italian Cup in 1984 and one Italian Supercup in 1995...
  
  (1975-96)
- Walter Magnifico
  Walter Magnifico
  Walter Magnifico is a former Italian basketball player. A 2.09 m Power Forward/Center, he spent most of his career in Scavolini Pesaro, thus becoming one of the club's emblems. While in Pesaro he led his team to a Saporta Cup in 1983, two Italian championship titles in 1988 and 1990 as well as two...
  
  (1980-01)
- Riccardo Pittis
  Riccardo Pittis
  Riccardo Pittis is a former Italian basketball player. A 2.03 m small forward, Pittis was an excellent all-around player.- Career :...
  
  (1984-04) Russia:
- Gennadi Volnov
  Gennadi Volnov
  Gennadi Georgievich Volnov was a Russian basketball player who played for the Soviet Union national basketball team from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. He was born in Moscow....
  
  (1956-73)
- Yuri Korneev
  Yuri Korneev
  Yuri Korneev , was a Russian basketball player. A 1.98 m tall small forward, he started his career for Dynamo Moscow, but moved to CSKA to become one of its cornerstones in the sixties...
  
  (1957-66)
- Vladimir Andreev
  Vladimir Andreev (basketball)
  Vladimir Georgevich Andreev is a retired Russian basketball player. In 1969, along with CSKA Moscow he won the European Champions' Cup against Real Madrid Baloncesto, being the top scorer of the final with 37 points. a 2.15 m center, He was also a member of the Soviet national team from 1967 to...
  
  (1962-75)
- Anatoly Myshkin
  Anatoly Myshkin
  Anatoly Dmitriyevich Myshkin is a retired Soviet and Russian basketball player. A 6 feet 10 tall cornerman, Myshkin broke all the schemes in European basketball due to his unique skillset. Mobile and aggressive, he possessed the speed and versatility to beat any defender...
  
  (1972-86) Lithuania:
- Valdemaras Chomičius
  Valdemaras Chomicius
  Valdemaras Chomičius is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball team. Assistant coach on the Lithuanian national team...
  
  (1978-00)
- Rimas Kurtinaitis
  Rimas Kurtinaitis
  Rimas Kurtinaitis is a basketball trainer, head coach of the VEF Riga, retired Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player who was a member of the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams. He played as a shooting guard and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All-Star Three Point...
  
  (1982-06)
- Artūras Karnišovas
  Arturas Karnišovas
  Artūras Karnišovas is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player....
  
  (1989-02)
- Saulius Štombergas
  Saulius Štombergas
  Saulius Štombergas is a retired Lithuanian basketball player for the Lithuanian men's national basketball team....
  
  (1991-07) France:
- Richard Dacoury
  Richard Dacoury
  Richard Dacoury is a former French basketball player, and the French sportsman to have won the most trophies.-Career in clubs:*CRO Lyon *CSP Limoges *Paris BR -Club honours:...
  
  (1976-98)
- Stéphane Ostrowski
  Stéphane Ostrowski
  Stéphane Ostrowski is a retired French basketball player. A 6 ft 8.75 in power forward, he is widely considered one of the major figures of French basketball and was among the 105 player nominees for the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors list. He led CSP Limoges to the Saporta Cup title in...
  
  (1979-05)
- Antoine Rigaudeau
  Antoine Rigaudeau
  Antoine Roger Rigaudeau nicknamed Le Roi , is a retired French professional basketball player....
  
  (1987-05) Slovenia:
- Ivo Daneu
  Ivo Daneu
  Ivo Daneu is a retired Slovenian basketball player and coach.He played for Branik Maribor and Olimpija Ljubljana , won Yugoslav league in 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1966 and 1970)....
  
  (1956-70)
- Jurij "Jure" Zdovc
  Jure Zdovc
  Jurij "Jure" Zdovc is a retired Slovenian basketball player and the coach of BC Spartak Saint Petersburg.As junior he start to play for Comet Slovenske Konjice...
  
  (1987-03)
- Matjaž Smodiš
  Matjaž Smodiš
  Matjaž Smodiš is a Slovenian professional basketball player. He is currently playing for KK Cedevita in Croatia.-Pro career:...
  
  (1994-Present) Israel:
- Tal Brody
  Tal Brody
  Tal Brody is an American-Israeli former basketball player, and current Goodwill Ambassador of Israel, who lives in Israel. Brody was drafted # 12 in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose to pass up an NBA career to instead play basketball in Israel...
  
  (1961-77)
- Motti Aroesti
  Motti Aroesti
  Motti Aroesti is a retired Israeli basketball player who played point guard for Maccabi Tel Aviv from 1974 to 1988. He was a key piece in Maccabi's first golden era in European basketball. Aroesti wore the Maccabi jersey for 15 consecutive seasons and won an Israeli League title for each of those...
  
  (1973-88)
- Doron Jamchi
  Doron Jamchi
  Doron Jamchi , is an Israeli former basketball player. He played in the small forward position .He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C...
  
  (1984-00) Latvia:
- Maigonis Valdmanis
  Maigonis Valdmanis
  Maigonis Valdmanis was a Latvian basketball player. He was born in Riga.He played for ASK Riga and won 3 Euroleague titles and 4 national championships ....
  
  (1949-63)
- Valdis Muižnieks
  Valdis Muiznieks
  Valdis Muižnieks is a retired Latvian basketball player.He played for ASK Riga and won 3 Euroleague titles and 4 national championships ....
  
  (1951-69)
- Jānis Krūmiņš
  Janis Kruminš
  Jānis Krūmiņš was a Soviet Latvian center basketball player. Helped by his height , he was the first giant center dominating under the European baskets, for years...
  
  (1954-69) Greece:
- Panagiotis Fasoulas
  Panagiotis Fasoulas
  Panagiotis Fasoulas is a Greek politician and former professional basketball player...
  
  (1981-99)
- Dimitris Diamantidis
  Dimitris Diamantidis
  Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...
  
  (1999-Present) Ukraine:
- Vladimir Tkachenko
  Vladimir Tkachenko
  Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Olympics Basketball medals and three FIBA World Championship medals with the Soviet Union national basketball team in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named both the Euroscar and the Mr...
  
  (1973-92)
- Alexander Volkov
  Alexander Volkov (basketball)
  Alexander Anatolevich "Sasha" Volkov is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player. At 6'10" , he played the forward position.Volkov won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as a member of the Soviet Union national basketball team...
  
  (1983-96) Montenegro:
- Duško Ivanović
  Duško Ivanovic
  Duško Ivanović is a Montenegrin basketball coach and a former basketball player.As a player he started his career in KK Jedinstvo - Bijelo Polje....
  
  (1980-96) Turkey:
- İbrahim Kutluay (1991-2009)
- Mirsad Türkcan (1994-Present) Republic of Macedonia:
- Petar Naumoski
  Petar Naumoski
  Petar Naumoski is a former Macedonian basketball player who had successful years especially in Turkey and Italy. He is a 1.94 m point-guard and a very skillful playmaker. He once served as Sport Minister of the Republic of Macedonia...
  
  (1989-04) Czech Republic:
- Jiří Zídek Sr.
  Jiří Zídek Sr.
  Jiří Zídek Sr. is a retired Czech basketball player. A talented center, he helped USK Slavia Prague make it all the way to the Euroleague final in 1966. He scored 22 points in the final to lead all scorers, but Simmenthal Milano stood in his way for the Euroleague crown, winning the game 77-72...
  
  (1962-83) Armenia:
- Armenak Alachachian
  Armenak Alachachian
  Armenak Alachachian is a retired Armenian basketball player. A creative point guard, he reached European stardom with CSKA Moscow and the Soviet Union national team....
  
  (1952-68) Argentina:
- Luis Scola
  Luis Scola
  Luis Alberto Scola Balvoa is an Argentine professional basketball player. The power forward-center for the Argentine national team is currently signed with the NBA's Houston Rockets. He formerly was a Euroleague star with the ACB's Saski Baskonia...
  
  (1996-Present)

Euroleague's 10 Greatest All-Time Coaches

Serbia:

- Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić
  Aleksandar Nikolic
  Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić was a renowned Bosnian Serb basketball player and coach from Yugoslavia. He is considered to be so instrumental and important to the game's development in the country that he is often referred to as the Father of Yugoslav basketball...
  
  (1954-84)
- Dušan "Duda" Ivković
  Dušan Ivkovic
  Dušan "Duda" Ivković is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current coach. In 2008, he was named one of the 10 Greatest Coaches in Euroleague history....
  
  (1978-Present)
- Božidar "Boža" Maljković
  Božidar Maljkovic
  Božidar "Boža" Maljković is a Serbian basketball coach, one of the most successful in Europe, having won a title with practically all clubs he trained, including four Euroleague titles with three different clubs...
  
  (1979-Present)
- Želimir "Željko" Obradović
  Željko Obradovic
  Želimir “Željko” Obradović is a Serbian professional basketball coach and a former professional basketball player...
  
  (1991-Present) Spain:
- Pedro Ferrándiz
  Pedro Ferrándiz
  Pedro Ferrándiz González is a Spanish basketball coach. He is most famous for coaching Real Madrid basketball club in the 1960s and 1970s. He won record 12 titles in Spanish League, 4 titles in European Champions Cup and 10 titles in Spanish Cup. His combined record coaching Real is 437-90. He...
  
  (1957-75)
- Manuel "Lolo" Sáinz
  Lolo Sainz
  Manuel Sainz Márquez, born 28 August 1940 in Tetuan, is a Spanish former basketball player and coach. On 3 February 2008, he was chosen as one of the 50 most influential personalities to European Club Basketball over the last half-century by the Euroleague Basketball Experts Committee.-Biography:He...
  
  (1972-00) Russia:
- Alexander Gomelsky
  Alexander Gomelsky
  Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a great Soviet and Russian basketball coach.Gomelsky was Jewish. He began his coaching career in 1948 in Leningrad with LGS Spartak...
  
  (1954-91) USA:
- Dan Peterson
  Dan Peterson
  Dan Peterson is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A1 after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team has announced that he will assume...
  
  (1963-87, 2011-Present) Italy:
- Ettore Messina
  Ettore Messina
  Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach currently working as a consultant for Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He has won 4 Euroleague championships as a head coach...
  
  (1989-Present) Israel:
- Pinhas "Pini" Gershon (1992-Present)

Other coaching nominees

Italy:

- Cesare Rubini
  Cesare Rubini
  Cesare Rubini was an Italian basketball player and coach, and water polo player. One of the greatest European coaches of all time, Rubini was inducted intto the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, the first and to this day one of the few Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, together...
  
  (1947-74)
- Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba
  Sandro Gamba
  Alessandro Gamba , better known as Sandro Gamba, is an Italian basketball coach and former professional basketball player....
  
  (1973-91)
- Valerio Bianchini (1974-06) Serbia:
- Ranko Žeravica
  Ranko Žeravica
  Ranko Žeravica is a retired Serbian basketball coach.- Club level :On the club level, he has coached:...
  
  (1958-03)
- Svetislav Pešić
  Svetislav Pešic
  Svetislav Pešić Svetislav Pešić (Светислав Пешић) Svetislav Pešić (Светислав Пешић) (born August 28, 1949 in Pirot, Serbia, is former Serbian professional basketball player and a present day Serbian basketball coach. He is the current coach of BC Red Star.-Playing career:...
  
  (1982-Present) Croatia:
- Mirko Novosel
  Mirko Novosel
  Mirko Novosel is a former Yugoslav basketball player and coach.He played from 1952 to 1966...
  
  (1967-93)
- Željko Pavličević (1985-Present) Spain:
- Alejandro "Aíto" García Reneses
  Aíto García Reneses
  Alejandro García Reneses , usually known as "Aíto" García Reneses or just "Aíto", is one of the most prestigious Spanish basketball coaches. He has won nine Liga ACB titles, all with FC Barcelona...
  
  (1974-Present) Greece:
- Giannis Ioannidis
  Giannis Ioannidis
  Giannis Ioannidis is a Greek New Democracy politician and a famous ex basketball coach. Ioannidis was born in Thessaloniki, and studied Agriculture in the Faculty of Geotechnical Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki...
  
  (1978-04) Israel:
- Ralph Klein
  Ralph Klein (coach)
  Ralph Klein was an Israeli basketball player and coach.-Early life:Klein was born in Berlin during the time of the Weimar Republic, to an affluent Hungarian Jewish family that returned to Budapest before the outbreak of World War II...
  
  (1976-96)

Euroleague's 5 Greatest All-Time Referees

Bulgaria: Artenik Arabadjian Russia: Mikhail Davidov Slovakia: Lubomir Kotleba France: Yvan Mainini Greece: Costas Rigas

Costas Rigas

Costas Rigas ,, is a retired Greek pro basketball player and a former pro basketball referee.-Playing career:Rigas played basketball with Amyntas BC, in Greece. He also played with the youth Greek national team for one game....

Other reffing nominees

Serbia: Obrad Belošević

Obrad Beloševic

Obrad Belošević was a Serbian basketball referee. He refereed over 300 games of the Yugoslav basketball league from 1951-1976...

Finland: Carl Jungebrand Hungary: Ervin Kassai

Ervin Kassai

Ervin Kassai is a retired Hungarian basketball referee. He refereed in international games from 1953 to 1975...

Poland: Wiesław Zych Lithuania: Romualdas Brazauskas

Romualdas Brazauskas

Romualdas Brazauskas is a Lithuanian basketball referee. After graduation from Vilnius Pedagogical Institute in 1983, Brazauskas became a FIBA judge in 1987 and since then he has judged basketball games in the Olympics, FIBA European and World Championships, Euroleague...

Spain: Pedro Hernández-Cabrera UK: David Turner

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