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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Montenegrin Expatriate Basketball People in the United States, Žarko Paspalj, Predrag Drobnjak, Žarko Čabarkapa, Slavko Vraneš, Boban Savović, Predrag Savović, David Dedvukaj. Excerpt: arko Paspalj (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (born March 27, 1966) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and current vice-president of the Serbian Olympic Committee. He played for Budunost, Partizan, San Antonio Spurs, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Panionios BC, Paris Racing, Aris, and Virtus. For years, he was also an automatic choice for the Yugoslav national team, representing his country in two Olympics, 1 World championship, and 4 European championships. Paspalj was born in Pljevlja, SR Montenegro, in SFR Yugoslavia. His Serbian forester father Jovan from a small village on the slopes of Kozara in Bosanska Krajina moved to Pljevlja on business as he dealt in lumber trade. Once there he got married to a local woman Mileva and stayed on. When young arko was 10 years old, his father moved the family to Titograd because he got a job there. arko took up basketball and soon distinguished himself in the youth system of KK Budunost. arko Paspalj began his pro career in 1982 when at age 16 he got moved up to Budunost's first team where he was part of a talented generation alongside the likes of Zdravko Radulovi and Luka Pavievi. Back then, Budunost was a small, unambitious side that essentially served as talent feeder for bigger Yugoslav league clubs like Partizan, Cibona, Jugoplastika, Red Star or even Bosna. Constantly in danger of relegation, Budunost sometimes banked on more than just its own quality for top-league survival. There is an unconfirmed story from the early 1980s when Paspalj was a junior, about Cibona coming to Titograd for a late season game whi... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1844435 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dejan Bodiroga, Aleksandar Pavlović, Igor Rakočević, Predrag Drobnjak, Miloš Vujanić, Petar Popović. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dejan Bodiroga (Serbian Cyrillic: ; born March 2, 1973 in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He was listed at 2.05 m (6 ft 8 ¾ in) tall and 110 kg (243 lbs.) and was a small forward-shooting guard. Bodiroga first started playing structured basketball at the age of 13. He enrolled in Zrenjanin's Mainac (Servo Mihalj) basketball section, under supervision of local basketball enthusiast Rade Prvulov. At the age of fifteen, he sprung up to 2.05m, and was quickly incorporated into the first team squad, coached by Miodrag Sija Nikoli, a former OKK Beograd and FSFR Yugoslav national team player in the 1960s. His domestic career took off when, at 17, he was noticed by Kreimir osi at a friendly youth tournament that featured Mainac and KK Zadar among others, where Bodiroga scored 32 points in a game that pitted two teams. osi then brought Bodiroga for a week-long basketball camp in Zadar and eventually persuaded Bodiroga's family to allow their son to move away to Zadar. In the meantime Bodiroga signed a pre-contract with KK Vojvodina so that when he finally went to Zadar in autumn 1989 he wasn't right away eligible for the first team, meaning that he first worked with coach Josip Pino Grdovi in the club's youth sections while simultaneously attending high school. Afer a year he was allowed to be moved into the full squad, then under head coach Slavko Trnini. After just one season in the first team, Bodiroga's stay on the Dalmatian coast came to a premature end when the conflict that pitted Croats and Serbs against each other inflamed in May-June 1991. The country w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=361959 ... Read more

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Chapters: Žarko Paspalj, Aleksandar Pavlović, Duško Vujošević, Omar Cook, Nikola Peković, Predrag Drobnjak, Žarko Čabarkapa, Goran Jeretin, Slavko Vraneš, List of Montenegrin Nba Players, Vladimir Dašić, Nenad Mijatović, Velibor Radović, Vlado Šćepanović, Đuro Ostojić, Goran Nikolić, Mladen Šekularac, Boris Bakić, Nebojša Bogavac, Blagota Sekulić, David Dedvukaj, Marko Popović, Sead Šehović. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: arko Paspalj (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (born March 27, 1966) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and current vice-president of the Serbian Olympic Committee. He played for Budunost, Partizan, San Antonio Spurs, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, Panionios BC, Paris Racing, Aris, and Virtus. For years, he was also an automatic choice for the Yugoslav national team, representing his country in two Olympics, 1 World championship, and 4 European championships. Paspalj was born in Pljevlja, SR Montenegro, in SFR Yugoslavia. His Serbian forester father Jovan from a small village on the slopes of Kozara in Bosanska Krajina moved to Pljevlja on business as he dealt in lumber trade. Once there he got married to a local woman Mileva and stayed on. When young arko was 10 years old, his father moved the family to Titograd because he got a job there. arko took up basketball and soon distinguished himself in the youth system of KK Budunost. arko Paspalj began his pro career in 1982 when at age 16 he got moved up to Budunost's first team where he was part of a talented generation alongside the likes of Zdravko Radulovi and Luka Pavievi. Back then, Budunost was a small, unambitious side that essentially served as talent feeder for bigger Yugoslav league clubs like Partizan, Cibona, Jugoplastika, Red Star or even Bosna. Constantly in dang...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1844435 ... Read more