Welcome to the EX-YUGOSLAVIA basketball of 80's & 90's (Video)

[video=youtube_share;IPtSdDrYy4s]https://youtu.be/IPtSdDrYy4s?si=yjd0fwfGDrxOIR7C[/video]

I am Croatian myself, and I made this short video where I combined everything from this period about genius EX-YU basketball, followed by war back then, hatred... etc etc... :)

Ofcourse that every true basketball fan will know from which Basketball tv-series I got my inspiration for this short video :D

Some of the players in video: Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc, Vlade Divac, Danilovic, Bodiroga, Rebrača, Đorđević, Peja Stojakovic, Dino Radja...

I've always wondered. Why did basketball randomly take off there so early? Rest of Europe didn't really get into basketball like that until well into the 90s.

[QUOTE=FKAri;14904380]I've always wondered. Why did basketball randomly take off there so early? Rest of Europe didn't really get into basketball like that until well into the 90s.[/QUOTE]

Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.

Gonna def check this later.

Appreciate ya!