1989–90 Yugoslav First Basketball League

The season saw new developments in the business aspect of basketball in Yugoslavia as a result of the Yugoslav First Basketball League's basketball talent becoming interesting to rich NBA teams. With the country's still-formally-enforced strict sporting exit rules—stipulating that no player is allowed to transfer abroad before turning 28 years of age—already being bent and occasionally loosened (superstar Dražen Petrović going to Real Madrid at the age of 24 one year earlier), summer 1989 saw two more high-profile star players leaving the league way before turning 28: twenty-one-year-old Vlade Divac joining the Los Angeles Lakers and twenty-three-year-old Žarko Paspalj heading to the San Antonio Spurs.{{cite news|url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7za74z|first1=Vladimir|last1=Pajić|first2=Miloš|last2=Šakan|title=Zlatni momci (episode 3): Tim snova u luna parku (11:50)|agency=Radio Television of Serbia|date=28 August 2019|access-date=5 September 2019}}

Attracted by superior financial compensation in the NBA, the summer 1989 offseason saw yet another newly drafted young Yugoslav star player, Dino Rađa, even resort to unilaterally travelling to the United States and signing with the Boston Celtics despite having a valid contract with KK Jugoplastika; he would eventually be forced to return to Yugoslavia following a Jugoplastika-initiated legal process before U.S. courts. With NBA scouts closely following a number of other Yugoslav League young players—such as Jugoplastika's Toni Kukoč and Žan Tabak, KK Partizan's Predrag Danilović, Saša Đorđević, and Miroslav Pecarski, KK Crvena zvezda's Rastko Cvetković, KK Cibona's Franjo Arapović, KK Zadar's Stojko Vranković and Arijan Komazec, KK Olimpija's Radisav Ćurčić, etc. not to mention a slew of even younger juniors coming up such as Dejan Bodiroga and Željko Rebrača—it was becoming clear that the decades-long system of keeping players in the country until the age of 28 was about to become impossible to keep maintaining.

From October 1989, the country also got its first-ever basketball specific periodical publication. A magazine named Koš with Vladimir Stanković as its editor-in-chief—devoted entirely to coverage of Yugoslav basketball league, Yugoslav national teams (men's and women's), and Yugoslav players abroad—was launched by the Borba publishing company, thus further indicating the level of popularity the sport had grown to in the country. The first issue of Koš featured Lakers rookie Vlade Divac on the cover, standing in front of The Forum in Los Angeles while wearing his number 12 Lakers jersey.

Furthermore, with Petrović moving to the Portland Trail Blazers—along with Divac and Paspalj joining the Lakers and Spurs, respectively—the entire Yugoslav basketball media ecosystem began to change as well. Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT), country's public broadcasting system, bought television rights to an NBA package consisting of 26 NBA games (18 regular season games and 8 playoff games) from the 1989-90 season—mostly involving Lakers, Blazers, and Spurs—for US$28,000.{{cite news|last=Zlatar|first=Pero|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BIEP7nsWaTaklINi12TGV4b0E/view?resourcekey=0-CsTTMEf5A_2epJM6uSLBvg|title=Konačno s nama (page 41)|agency=Koš magazin|date=November 1989|access-date=29 August 2022}} The US$28,000 price tag (US$67,000 in 2022)[https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1989?amount=28000 28,000 in 1989 adjusted for inflation in 2022] was reportedly split between JRT's two biggest television affiliates—TV Beograd and TV Zagreb—with each one paying US$14,000. Carried in Yugoslavia starting from 19 November 1989, on tape delay, the NBA broadcasts marked the first time that games from a foreign basketball league games were shown on Yugoslav television.

{{#invoke:sports results|main

| source = [http://kosmagazin.com/kos-pdf/ Koš magazin]

| update = complete

| matches_style = BSR

| ot_note = yes

| team3= ZAD | team1= JUG | team8= PAR | team2= CZV | team12=ZOR | team7= OLI | team6= BOS | team4= CIB | team5= VOJ | team10= IMT | team9= ZAG | team11=SLT

| name_ZAD = Zadar | short_ZAD = ZAD

| name_JUG = Jugoplastika | short_JUG = JUG

| name_PAR = Partizan | short_PAR = PAR

| name_CZV = Crvena Zvezda | short_CZV = CZV

| name_ZOR = Zorka Šabac | short_ZOR = ZOR

| name_OLI = Olimpija | short_OLI = OLI

| name_BOS = Bosna | short_BOS = BOS

| name_CIB = Cibona | short_CIB = CIB

| name_VOJ = Vojvodina | short_VOJ = VOJ

| name_IMT = IMT | short_IMT = IMT

| name_ZAG = Novi Zagreb | short_ZAG = ZAG

| name_SLT = Sloboda Dita Tuzla | short_SLT = SLT

| match_SLT_ZAD = 77-94

| match_SLT_JUG = 68-114

| match_SLT_CZV = 89-106

| match_SLT_PAR = 103-92

| match_SLT_ZOR = 92-87

| match_SLT_OLI =94-92

| match_SLT_BOS =88-87

| match_SLT_CIB = 77-87

| match_SLT_VOJ = 69-66

| match_SLT_IMT = 84-87

| match_SLT_ZAG = 92-67

| match_ZAD_SLT = 84-69

| match_JUG_SLT = 89-68

| match_PAR_SLT =84-83

| match_CZV_SLT = 107-93

| match_ZOR_SLT = 94-82

| match_OLI_SLT = 118-98

| match_BOS_SLT = 87-80

| match_CIB_SLT = 97-82

| match_VOJ_SLT = 89-66

| match_IMT_SLT = 73-76

| match_ZAG_SLT = 79-76

| match_ZAD_JUG = 90-81

| match_ZAD_CIB =103-72

| match_ZAD_BOS = 77-73

| match_ZAD_CZV = 85-88

| match_ZAD_VOJ = 113-89

| match_ZAD_OLI=99-84

| match_ZAD_ZAG=84-76

| match_ZAD_IMT= 93-80

|match_ZAD_PAR=124-94

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| match_PAR_ZAD = 84-92

| match_ZAG_ZAD = 98-90

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|match_CIB_ZAD= 98-90

|match_OLI_ZAD= 93-82

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|match_PAR_ZAG= 105-99

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| match_PAR_IMT= 79-82

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|match_PAR_OLI= 77-85

|match_PAR_JUG=77-99

| match_ZAG_PAR = 55-59

| match_VOJ_PAR = 85-83

| match_OLI_PAR =104-94

|match_CIB_PAR=90-80

| match_JUG_PAR =106-85

|match_CZV_PAR=81-79

|match_IMT_PAR=93-103

|match_BOS_PAR=83-98

|match_ZOR_PAR= 81-84

| match_ZOR_JUG = 76-95

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| match_ZOR_CIB =91-100

| match_ZOR_BOS = 76-78

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|match_CZV_ZOR=75-68

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| match_BOS_ZAG = 79-80

| match_BOS_VOJ = 86-82

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| match_BOS_IMT= 88-78

|match_BOS_JUG=62-59

| match_IMT_BOS =80-92

|match_CIB_BOS= 110-112|result_CIB_BOS=OT

|match_CZV_BOS= 97-75

|match_VOJ_BOS= 90-78

|match_OLI_BOS=76-86

|match_ZAG_BOS= 75-74

|match_JUG_BOS= 94-85

| match_VOJ_IMT =83-79

| match_VOJ_ZAG = 91-78

| match_VOJ_CZV = 79-84

|match_VOJ_JUG= 88-96

|match_VOJ_CIB=100-96

|match_VOJ_OLI= 89-72

| match_JUG_VOJ = 102-89

| match_CIB_VOJ = 98-85

|match_OLI_VOJ=85-68

|match_IMT_VOJ= 79-90

|match_CZV_VOJ= 93-83

|match_ZAG_VOJ=65-74

| match_CZV_OLI =115-103

| match_CZV_IMT = 110-84

| match_CZV_JUG = 84-101

|match_CZV_CIB = 95-92

|match_CZV_ZAG=87-84

| match_ZAG_CZV =67-80

|match_OLI_CZV= 113-93

|match_IMT_CZV=101-91

|match_CIB_CZV= 96-80

|match_JUG_CZV= 123-75

| match_CIB_ZAG = 84-77

| match_CIB_OLI = 79-82

| match_CIB_JUG = 86-97

|match_CIB_IMT=108-84

|match_OLI_CIB=86-85

| match_IMT_CIB =83-85

|match_ZAG_CIB=95-96

|match_JUG_CIB=109-88

| match_OLI_ZAG = 77-84

| match_OLI_IMT = 107-81

|match_OLI_JUG= 67-75

|match_IMT_OLI= 86-84

| match_JUG_OLI =108-81

|match_ZAG_OLI= 77-71

| match_IMT_JUG =81-80

|match_IMT_ZAG=82-80

|match_ZAG_IMT=68-69

|match_JUG_IMT= 103-77

|match_JUG_ZAG= 84-73

|match_ZAG_JUG= 80-109

}}

{{4TeamBracket

| RD1 = Semifinals

| RD2 = Finals

| seed-width = 25

| team-width = 175

| score-width = 25

| RD1-seed1 = 1

| RD1-team1 = Jugoplastika

| RD1-score1 = 2

| RD1-seed2 = 4

| RD1-team2 = Cibona

| RD1-score2 = 1

| RD1-seed3 = 2

| RD1-team3 = Crvena Zvezda

| RD1-score3 = 2

| RD1-seed4 = 3

| RD1-team4 = Zadar

| RD1-score4 = 1

| RD2-seed1 = 1

| RD2-team1 = Jugoplastika

| RD2-score1 = 3

| RD2-seed2 = 2

| RD2-team2 = Crvena Zvezda

| RD2-score2 = 1

}}

{{smalldiv|

SEMIFINALS

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Jugoplastika-Cibona 94-82, 69-80, 103-90

Crvena zvezda-Zadar 93-89, 90-108, 97-88

FINALS

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Jugoplastika-Crvena zvezda 98-70, 67-69, 93-63, 113-91

GROUP KORAC

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Partizan-Sibenka 87-80, 71-85, 97-93

Olimpija-Buducnost 105-80, 121-93

Bosna-Olimpija 107-110, 86-88

Vojvodina-Partizan 75-68, 76-82, 76-73}}

The winning roster of Jugoplastika:{{cite news|url=http://nsl.kosarka.co.yu/History2.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702123851/http://nsl.kosarka.co.yu/History2.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 July 2008|title=Yugoslav basketball league standings 1945-91|agency=nsl.kosarka.co.yu|accessdate=7 January 2019}}

• {{flagicon|YUG}} Zoran Sretenović
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Velimir Perasović
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Toni Kukoč
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Petar Naumoski
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Zoran Savić
• {{flagicon|YUG}} {{ill|Goran Sobin|it}}
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Velibor Radović
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Aramis Naglić
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Žan Tabak
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Duško Ivanović
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Dino Rađa
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Paško Tomić
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Teo Čizmić
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Luka Pavićević

Coach: {{flagicon|YUG}} Božidar Maljković

1. Arijan Komazec (Zadar) - ___ points (31.5ppg){{cite news|last=Martinović|first=Dragan|url=http://kosmagazin.com/drazen-petrovic-ili-radivoj-korac/|title=DRAŽEN PETROVIĆ ILI RADIVOJ KORAĆ?|agency=Koš magazin|date=22 January 2017|accessdate=12 February 2017}}

Six teams competed to qualify for the 1990-91 Yugoslav basketball league (9th-placed IMT and 10th-placed Novi Zagreb from the A league; second-placed Rabotnički and third-placed Radnički from the IB league (East division), second-placed Spartak Subotica and third-placed Čelik Zenica from the IB league (West division).{{Cite web |title=Bnl viewer |url=http://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:pp%7Cissue:UB_00064_19900326%7Cpage:11 |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=istorijskenovine.unilib.rs}}{{Cite web |title=magazin-kos 7.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BIEP7nsWaTbmYxdk9sRmI5MVk/view?resourcekey=0-xd-V9N1ue649skFzDtJlZg&usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Google Docs}}{{Cite web |title=magazin-kos 8.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BIEP7nsWaTSTRJRnIwaFdBRDA/view?resourcekey=0-j0ADIOIgLsfrsdeJs5CGdQ&usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=Google Docs}}

Rabotnički - Čelik 71-68, 72-82, 71-72

Spartak Subotica - Radnički Belgrade 85-82, 69-106, 72-67

IMT - Spartak 94-85, Novi Zagreb- Čelik 72-69,

Spartak - Novi Zagreb 93-87, Čelik - IMT 57-67,

Novi Zagreb - IMT 81-69, Spartak- Čelik 55-62,

Spartak - IMT 68-82, Čelik - Novi Zagreb 78-65,

IMT - Čelik 91-80, Novi Zagreb - Spartak 85-70,

IMT - Novi Zagreb 82-80, Čelik - Spartak 98-83.

FIBA European Champions Cup

• Jugoplastika (champions)

FIBA Cup Winners' Cup

• Crvena Zvezda (Cup finalist)

FIBA Korać Cup

• Zadar (3rd)
• Cibona (4th)
• Vojvodina (playoffs)
• Smelt Olimpija (playoffs)

{{#invoke:RoundN|N16

|widescore=yes |bold_winner=high |3rdplace=no

|RD1=Eightfinals

|RD2=Quarterfinals

|RD3=Semifinals

|RD4=Finals

||Zadar|93|MZT Skopje| 68

||Jugoplastika|80|Vojvodina|73

||Bosna|104|Vlaznimi| 66

||Prvi partizan|68|Olimpija|82

||Crvena zvezda |84|Čelik|76

||IMT|89|OKK Beograd|76

||Cibona |93|Budućnost|77

||Partizan|85|Šibenka|70

||Zadar|75|Jugoplastika|90

||Bosna|81|Olimpija|87

||Crvena zvezda |84|IMT|73

||Cibona|110|Partizan|73

||Jugoplastika|84|Olimpija|74

||Crvena zvezda|76|Cibona|73

||Jugoplastika|79|Crvena zvezda|77

}}{{Cite web |title=magazin-kos 1.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BIEP7nsWaTSjA2NVVsa2R4OFE/view?resourcekey=0-qBiJ1Q8Sbp0rBhuHdT4Phw&usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=Google Docs}}{{Cite web |title=magazin-kos 5.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BIEP7nsWaTNzUwUVJwN2g4R1E/view?resourcekey=0-Qm9BIpRGt5WMzkdMvwHw3w&usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=Google Docs}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://pearlbasket.altervista.org/JU90.htm Pearlbasket]

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{{Basketball in Yugoslavia}}

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