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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.
Three other individuals both played for and coached honored teams, all of whom completed this "double" with a single franchise—K. C. Jones with the Celtics as a player in 1964–65 and coach in 1985–86, Billy Cunningham with the Sixers as a player in 1966–67 and coach in 1982–83, and Pat Riley with the Lakers as a player in 1971–72 ...
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)
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.
As the season gets ready to begin, we rank the 50 best players in the league.
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
The Times-News' list of 50 returning boys basketball players to watch this season includes many of last season's all-District 10 and all-region players.
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...