As the longtime head of FIBA, the international game’s governing body, he successfully lobbied to let pros play in the Olympics.
Tag: Yugoslavia
I Fled Yugoslavia in 1941. Then I Returned to Join the Resistance.
After the Germans had consolidated in northwestern Yugoslavia, I told my parents I wanted to become a freedom fighter.
Radovan Karadzic Sentenced to Life for Bosnian War Crimes
Mr. Karadzic led a Serb-majority region that tried to break away from Bosnia, where tens of thousands of people were killed and more were displaced by ethnic cleansing.