Radivoj Korać
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5 November 1938 Sombor, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
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| Died | 2 June 1969 (aged 30) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 207 lb (94 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 1960 / Undrafted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1954–1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Power forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 5, 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1954–1967 | OKK Beograd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Standard Liège | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Petrarca Padova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FIBA Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Radivoj Korać (Serbian Cyrillic: Радивој Кораћ), sometimes also Radivoje, (5 November 1938 – 2 June 1969) was a Serbian professional basketball player. Korać is well known for holding the EuroLeague's all-time single-game scoring record, at 99 points scored, in a game versus Alvik Basket, during the 1964–65 season, and for once making 100 out of 100 free throws on a live television show in Belgium.
Korać died in a car crash in 1969, at the age of 30, and FIBA Europe later established the European third-tier Radivoj Korać Cup in his remembrance, in 1971. Korać was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. In 2002, the Basketball Federation of Serbia named its top national cup competition, the Radivoj Korać Cup, after him. He was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007 and was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors the following year.
Korać was born in Sombor, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He started playing for OKK Beograd, at the age of 16, and played as a left-handed forward-center. Popularly nicknamed, Žućko ('Ginger'), he became one of the best, if not the best, player of the Yugoslav League in the 1960s. In 1960, Korać was named The Best Athlete of Yugoslavia, and Yugoslav Sportsman of the Year. He was the best scorer of the Yugoslav League for seven seasons, which is a record, and he had a career scoring average in the Yugoslav league of 32.7 points per game.
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