| Even today he is considered to be one of the best players in the history of the European basketball. Radivoj Korac, known as "Zucko" was the best and most efficient player of the Yugoslav team in the sixties. He won with the Yugoslav team six medals - five silver medals and one bronze.
He is remembered as an unsurpassable scorer. Playing for OKK Belgrade, versus Alvik Stockholm, in a match of European Champions' Cup in 1964 (OKK Belgrade won 155-57), "Zucko" scored incredible 99 points!
Korac was three times in a best European selection, and even seven times he won the title of the best Yugoslav shooter. He will stay remembered also by his specific free-throws (see the picture).
In June 1969, a life and basketball carrier of 31 years old Korac was stopped in a car crash. Shortly after this tragedy, a competition "Cup of Radivoj Korac" was established as a remembrance on this player who became a legend too early. |
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