I forgot Nikola Mirotic!!!

Albania as a region was never part of Yugoslavia.

There is none literally NONE Albanian important basketball player in Europe, not to mention Nba .

Jokic "really good center" boi, he had better 1st p-off stats that every center in history. A legit MVP caliber player

Yo , when you dont know anything about geography, focus on basketball only please . Your reference of balkans was a complete failure

He mentioned f*cking Darko Milicic and not Pedja Stojakovic who without a doubt is one of the greatest shooters of all time!!!

The Balkans include: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Greece and the European part of Turkey Ex Yugoslavia include: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia

Fun fact - one of the best NBA coaches of all time also had a Serbian dad and a Croatian mom - Greg Popovich.

I see that Americans are really good in geography

Peja Stojakovic was bad, so you didnt mantion him.. or what???

How could you forget about Stojaković, when mentioning Divac?! 😂

Nikos Galis Dirk Nowitzki Giannis Antetokounmpo Dražen Petrović Pau Gasol Arvydas Sabonis Toni Kukoč Luka Dončić Tony Parker Marc Gasol Peja Stojaković Kristaps Porziņģis Nikola Jokic Vlade Divac Rudy Gobert Goran Dragić Detlef Schrempf Nikola Vučević Bogdan Bogdanović Danilo Gallinari Andrei Kirilenko Ricky Rubio Bojan Bogdanović Šarūnas Marčiulionis Boban Marjanović Nikola Mirotić Milos Teodosic Dejan Bodiroga Dino Rađa Šarūnas Jesikevičius And your map is completely imaginary...

Are you serious? Albania part of Yugosavia? When was that?

If Yugoslavia stayed intact, they’d dominate all FIBA competitions and the Olympics.

Where is Peja Stojakovic? Very bad video....Kosovo isn't country, Albanija wasn't part of Yugoslavija!

Today, the Yugoslav team could be: Luka Doncic, Milos Teodosic, Goran Dragic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Bojan Bogdanovic, Nemanja Bjelica, Dario Saric, Nikola Kalinic, Nikola Jokic, Nikola Vucevic, Jusuf Nurkic, Boban Marjanovic, (Ivica Zubac); It would be interesting for one of the Yugoslav basketball experts to gather them to play against any NBA team.

Before other Serbs find you and torch you for the map, I will say I understand that foreigners are not well informed about our region to know better (which is normal), but just to clarify - Kosovo is not a country, but a partially-recognized state. To that, I'd also like to add that the basketball powerhouse that was Yugoslavia did not include Albania, which is seen by their lack of representation in the NBA. Politics aside, great and informational video!

Jokic "good center"? Bojan Bogdanovic "role" player? You have problems with druggs?

Today's Yugoslavia would beat best of USA 3-4 games out of 10. Maybe even more.

Albania and basketball wtf. And Kosovo is Serbia. All the best

Something that is not widely known in States is that ex-yu region brings some of the best coaches in the europe. Also comments like "doh, Luka played with grown mens" is so disrespecting when you put in mind that you really need alot of luck to have a coach who is whilling to risk result over development of such a young player. And coaches in Europe lose their job much quicker than in NBA. Also, when someone in US is refering on player stat in europe i never heard a comment that thoose numbers are made in 40 minute game (vs 48 in NBA)

Imagine Yugoslavia all together as national team

Kosovo is part of Serbia, and Albania has nothing in common with basketball or Yugoslavia.

Uh, historically, Greece is part of the Balkans. And Giannis, though he has Nigerian roots, hecwas born and raised in Greece and its Balkan basketball training.

And yeah, Jokic a good player? Man he is the best Center in the world by any criteria

I see many critics about geographical and political definition of the Balkans, but this video is not about that... Only addition from me would be a mention of Peja Stojakovic who was a Serb, but also at least a shout out to Lithuania, the other European basketball talent factory. The Balkans: Greece is a part of Balkan peninsula geographically, and Bulgaria as well, and piece of Romania, and even Istanbul Turkey. But when people say "Balkans" they usually mean that in political context, and in that sense the Balkans is just an easier way to say "ex-Yugoslavia". There is also a definition of "cultural Balkans" that includes ex-Yugoslavia which is geographically just a part of Balkans, but also includes pieces of Yugoslavia that are not geographically on the Balkans, together with Albania and Bulgaria. There you go, confused much? Do that for centuries and you will be where we're at now :) Welcome to the Balkans :)

that's Југославија, not balkans :)

Darko Milicic was actually drafted the highest of all of them.

Not only in basketball..football /soccer, handball, volleyball, water polo. The balkan is a powerhouse in practically every ball team sport.

How come that Predrag Stojakovic - Peja hasn't been mentioned? He was one of the best 3 point shooters ever and won the championship with Dallas.

No mention of Peja Stojakovic for yugoslavia? 3 time NBA all star 2011 NBA champion.. World Cup gold medalist

You understate how great Nikola Jokic is honestly. He's the best center in basketball and it's really not particularly close right now, he's that great. Not just a great passing big man, he's one of the best passers in the game up there with LeBron and CP3, and he's a great scorer when he wants to be, and a solid defender. He's fantastic.

A nice tribute to the Yugoslavians, although there are some major mistakes in this clip. Overall, whenever you see a slavic name ending in "c", it's pronounced "ts" not "k" (e.g. it's pronounced "Petrovits" not "Petrovik") (1:27) That country in purple is not called Macedonia. The official name is the Republic of North Macedonia and it is a rather small part of the ancient Macedonian territory. (2:01) Drazen Petrovic was the definition of the modern (back then) point guard. Not a shooting a guard. Spending time on Nurkic, Bogdanovic (both), Saric, Hezonja, Bender, Zubac, Milicic, Bjelica, Marjanovic or Dragic (both), shows lack of knowledge or respect towards Stojakovic, Vrankovic, Radja, Bodiroga, Rebraca, Danilovic, Paspalj, Djordjevic and many more. Also, Romania is a Balkan country. Muresan was Romanian... The clip is about the "Best European NBA Players". Yet Europe consists of several other countries... Spain (Gasol), France (Parker), Lithuania (Sabonis), Greece (Antetokounmpo), Italy (Belinelli), Russia (Kirilenko), Germany (Nowitzki) are all part of Europe. Those come to mind without research and I just named one of each country for reference as there are literally a lot more like Marciulionis or Schrempf that are considered among the top European players. P.S.1. For a taste of how great Yugoslavian basketball used to be, check Jugoplastika (Pop 84). Probably the best European basketball team ever (this coming from a Greek). With Kukoc playing point guard up until 1991. Only war could stop that team... P.S.2. (4:37) Huge irony to say that "after 1991 Yugoslavia split up after some bloody wars"... I 'll just leave it at that as I bet U.S. history books don't even mention America's part in the disintegration of Yugoslavia.

People in the Balakans are amongst the tallest one's in the World on average and basketball is a very popular sport there. In some places even more popular than football. That's why this region produces the best players from Europe.

You forget Nikola Pekovic as Montenegrin player

Really bad video! You didn't mention Peja, Giannis and etc. Also, Albania has never been part of Yugoslavia. Other Balkans will put a lot of hate on your name for the misleading information. You forgot to mention Bulgaria, Greece and etc. Bulgaria is the biggest country on the Balkans (100% of its territory lay on the Balkan region). The first Eastern European basketball player in NBA is Georgi Glushkov from Bulgaria. This has a lot of misleading information and is deserved to be reported if not changed!

Bulgaria literally has the Balkan mountain range-- it wasn't named as one of the Balkan countries lmao

Macedonia is Greek. Always was Greek. Macedonia is in North Greece and the biggest city is Thessaloniki. There is no North or South. There is one Macedonia 100% Greek. History speaks! The real name of the country is Vardarska Banovina and they are Slavs. They came 1000 years after Alexander the Great!

Thank you for putting this video together as a tribute to talented basketball players from former Yugoslavia (SFRJ) region. There were so many and it's hard to named them all. People from there are big and tall and when you combine it with talent anything with a ball they can do it and be great at it, be it basketball, tennis, soccer, waterpolo, handball, volleyball, etc. Unfortunately, based from the comments you can see why we had so many wars there ☹

Amazing clip

You forgot Mirza Teletovic and Sasha Vujacic( Nba champ)

This was a good video. Coming from Slovenia, even i learned something new.

It’s because of the dinaric alps, almost all our basketball players originate from that mountainous region. Harsh climate and mountains have influenced the genentic of people there because only the toughest survived, so almost all men there are very strong and tall, much like the nordic nations, but they don’t have a basketball culture unlike the former Yugoslav countries. If the dinaric alps region were a soverign country, it would be the tallest nation on the planet!

Albania was not in Yugoslavia. It’s not fair to say all of balkans as Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia has never really produced good players exept Nurkic who is playing right now. It’s mainly Serbia and Croatia, most Serbia. I mean, Serbia is the only country to consistently qualify to mayor competitions like World Cup and olympics and pretty much getting top 4 every time.

Dude...seriously, no Mirotic and Stojakovic? :D

You forgot to mention Dino Radja as a NBA player that came from the early Yugoslavia team and that those guys helped pave the way for the Euro players as an American I remember hearing all the soft and flopping comments growing up it was those guys with a couple others that started to change that opinion

Krazyloko Awesome video man could you do top 50 European NBA players of all time list ?

Didnt know albania was a part of yugoslavia :/ where is Peja Stojakovic? Mirza Teletovic,Dzanan Musa? Many talented players

Predrag „Peja“ Stojaković ;)

Balcans are not only former Yugoslavia plus Albania, Balkans are also Greece Romania and Bulgaria

You didn't mention that Drazen scored 112 points in 10 minute quarter game.

Yugoslavian basketball school is TOP NOTCH. Probably thd best. Close 2nd are Lithuania and Spain. Then there's USA. I mean they are great too, but are winning cuz of the overall better black athletes.

Solid video, informative but there are some errors here and there.

Jokic is pretty good:). All Nba bro!

How hard would it have been to look on Wikipedia to find out what is the Balkans region? Well done for perpetuating the stereotype of Americans being bad at geography.

Dino Rađa is a hall of famer, that's not good enough to mentioned? Kukoč isn't.

The balkan is a lot bigger than just yugoslavia

kosovo is a part of serbia and tell me one Albanian nba player.

Serbia 5 times world champion. One of the best shooters of all time Peja, one of the best showmen Pistol Pete, first international head coach in the NBA Kokoskov, current best center in the NBA Jokic.

Let’s get Krazyloko to 20k subs. 4K more!!!

KOSOVO IS SERBIA 🇷🇸🇷🇸

"Pistol Pete Maravich" !!!

hi krazyloko

bro, how tf you speak about best European bball countries and don't mention Lithuania????

Altho not directly related to the topic i wanted make some corrections when it comes to the map of Yugoslav countries shown.First, Albania was not a part of Yugoslavia, nor is it really related to the other countries here which are Slavic. Second, Kosovo* is not a country, as it is not recognized by half of the world countries, nor is it a member of the UN and is listed as a south-Serbian province and a legitimate part of this country by the international resolution 1244. The full name of this province is Kosovo and Metohija, Metohija meaning "Land of Monasteries", considering that this is where some of the oldest Serbian Churches and Monasteries are, dating all the way back to 13th century.The reason why Serbs are a minority here today is because over the past centuries countless cleansing of Serbs were done in this southern region, where Albanians were collaborating with the Ottomans,Fascists and most recently the US lead NATO pact which bombed Serbia with depleted uranium in 1999. The reason why Kosovo and Metohija is so important for Serbian people is because for centuries, while 'some' where kissing the feet of every great invader that came upon this land, generations of Serbs gave their lives, to free and protect it and all it's people...from the 1389. Kosovo Battle and 500 years under Ottomans all the way to WW2...Serbs are the ones who left their blood and bones in the soil of this land.They are the ones who actually left their centuries-old heritage here including Churches,Monasteries and monuments of culture older than the discovery of the New World.This is the cradle of Serbian history, Religion, culture and therefore will always remain a part of identity of every Serbian and the heart of this nation. I wanted to share this because a lot of people are not aware of the actual history and background of this region due to the propaganda spread in the western media. Thank you for reading.

Greece with GIannis and more. Nikola Pekovic strong man. Coach of San Antonio Greg Popovic is a Serb in origin... Yugoslavia took USA out in the Indianapolis...

Nice hair color mr. Cuban!!!!!

SERBIA ! Even Doncic and Drazen Petrovic are Serbs but born in Slovenia and Croatia...Nikola Vucevic,Sasa Vujacic,Nikola Mirotic.Nikola Pekovic...and many many more...All ethnic Serbs

its sad how people only realized players like toni kukoc impact after watching the last dance. casual fans bro. real fans know all these players already lmao

Marko Guduric and Alen Smaijlagic from Srbija. You did a bad research. And in history you forgot, Pedja Stojakovic, Rebraca Dejan, Marko Jaric , and 20 other players

FROM SERBIA 🥇🇷🇸🥇🇷🇸🥇🇷🇸🥇

My conclusion: Slavian brothers are NBA talents. Solid fact.

Pedja Stojakovic best shooter in NBA?

Tell me 1 albanian basketball player 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Basically, he [Jokic] has surprisingly developed into a really good NBA center, and even an all star." Next one: "[Luka Doncic] basically showed that European players can play really well in the NBA". Do you even watch NBA dude? Jokic is arguably the most infuential player in the league besides Lebron, and Luka was owning the league at 19 years old. You forgot some great players like Dino Radja, Zarko Paspalj, Pedja Stojakovic, Mirza Teletovic...

Dude if Yugoslavia would still be together we'd fuck everyone up.

You missed few more and even better players from ex YU that played at the same time as Divac. But, yes ex YU has produced some great basketball players and coaches. It is the system too.

The way you butchered Ivica Zubac's name...

Would be very competitive matches since olimpic tournament and world championship is playing on one single game and in that format is always everything open

Wasnt the whip aka el latigo aka shamgod move created in yugoslavia? along with the eurostep?

The best European basketball players come from Serbian balls and I don't mean basket-balls :)

PEJA STOJAKOVIC? CMON MAN!

Vlade Divac came in NBA before Dražen and he was starter for Lakers since day one, he was 21 at the time and came directly from Jugoslavian lige.

Lot of players from ex Yugoslavia also played for other european national teams because war condition or better conditions(read money). Hidayet Turkoglu was Rahmanovic muslim from Serbia, Deni's Avdija father was from Serbia, played in Croatia also and left to Israel when war started,Cedi Osman Bosnian Macedonian mother, 1 pick od 2006 NBA draft Andrew (Andrija) Bogut both parents are Croats, they came in Australia in 70, he is fluent in Croatian,Nikola Mirotic, Serb from Montenegro for Spain, Andrew Vlahov (Montenegro for Aussie in 90), Pero Cameron Croat for New Zealand, Gregor Fucka was mvp of european championships in 1999 with Italy (coach Bosa Tanjevic took him). Ex NBA player Mirsad Turckan (Jahovic) also muslim from Serbia left to Turkey when war started. Nikola Radulović (serb from Croatia) and Roberto Chiachig (Slovenian) won olympic bronze with Italy in 2004. Marko Pesic (son of Svetislav Pesic coach) won bronze in world championships in 2002 with Germany.Even in NBA history George "Jure" Mikan was Croat, all time great, Petar Pete Maravich was from Montenegro, same as coach Popovic.Their parents came in midwest for better life in 1930. Kevin Mchale have Croat/Montenegro roots, coach Tomljanović parents were from Croatia island Brač. Lot of other players played for others Drazen Tomic (Germany, beat Croatia in Eurobasket 99 alone with 8 threes, not Dirk he was just ok), Asim Pars (Pascanovic) Turkey, today Tarik Biberovic, Melih, Igor Milicic Croat for Poland.

They all play in spain before jumping to the NBA

Kosovo is Serbia. Please remember that!

People keep mentioning Peja. But he also played with Hedo Turkalou from Turkey hence the name. Everybody from Turkey has that last name I imagine. Kinda like the way the french use Mouisure, apparently Mouisoure is a really popular name in France.

If Yugoslavia was still a country, it would have been EASILY second best basketball team in the world, consistently, behind the USA. But USA with whites only (as Yugoslavia) would stand NO CHANCE AT ALL.

Name one Albanian in NBA

That s because one of the tallest people come from there.

Legend of NBA Pistol Pit Maravich was Serbian origin so coach Gregg Popovich. Luk Doncic and Goran Dragic are both Serbs but play for Slovenia. Drazen Petrovic was a Serb but he declares a Croat. Same did Bojan Bogdanovic. Predrag Stojakovic is born in Croatia but he as Serb play for Serbia. Muslim Smailagic was drafted but he refuse to play ( for now ) and decide to play in Partizan Belgrade ( Serbia ). Nikola Jokic is first Serbian player who became MVP of NBA. First player born in Serbia who played in NBA was Vlade Divac. Firsat coach who is born in Serbia is Igor Kokoskov.

Bojan Bogdanovic, Ivica Zubac were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mostar and near Mostar - just like Mirza Teletović (Bucks until recently).

Serbia defeat minor USA Team Fiba world cup 2019. It would be lit If yugoslavia didn't split then they will face More stronger USA Team basketball

Bro just a fact Kosovo is a part of Serbia and it's not a country You can' t have Albania in this video cuz there is no player from albania in NBA and they are not basketaball oriented Next time you are making a video about this kind of thing check the wikipedia or any geographic site

Fun fact Miličić and Jokić are best man to each other.

Whatever you say guys, but even if he didn't play in NBA, Dejan Bodiroga was the best player in Europe! And one of the best players in the world. He proved that twice.

you missed quite a lot slovenian players with rings... Rašo Nesterovic, beno udrih, saša vujačič... no rings Boštjan Nachbar and Primož Brezec, Vladko cancar. Not bad for 2 milion population :)

You also forgot Dino Rađa( Boston Celtics). He was Kukoč' s ex teammate. Also, a few others.

I would argue Lithuaine was a big powerhouse back on the day too. Just like Spain has been dominant in the last couple of decades.

And Yugoslavia was small country with 20 milion people, and they were very dominant in the world of basketball 🏀. Water Polo, tennis,....