On this day (August 9) in 1998, at the FIBA World Championships in Athens, Yugoslavia became the Champion of the World for the fourth time.
“The Blues” defeated Russia’s selection 64:62 in the grand final.
The most efficient on the winning team was Željko Rebrača with 16 points, the best player of the World Cup Dejan Bodigora scored 11 points, Milenko Topić 9, Saša Obradović, Dejan Tomašević and Aleksandar Đorđevic 7, Vlado Sćepanović 5 and Miroslav Berić 2. They are in the team there were Predrag Drobnjak, Nikola Bulatović, Nikola Lončar and Dragan Lukovski.
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