Sabahudin Bilalović Explained

Sabahudin Bilalović
Height Ft:6
Height In:10
Position:Center
Birth Date:7 May 1960
Birth Place:Trebinje, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Death Place:Makarska, Croatia
Nationality:Bosnian
Draft Year:1982
Career Start:1977
Career End:1999
Years1:1977–1989
Team1:Bosna Sarajevo
Years2:1989–1990
Team2:KK Vojvodina
Years3:1990–1992
Team3:Bosna Sarajevo
Years4:1992–1993
Team4:Hapoel Nahariya
Years5:1993–1994
Years6:1994–1995
Years7:1995
Team7:Lugano Tigers
Years8:1995–1996
Team8:Speyer
Years9:1997–1999
Team9:Česko 93 Sarajevo
Highlights:

Sabahudin "Dino" Bilalović (7 May 1960 – 29 July 2003) was a Bosnian professional basketball player.

About

He was born in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1979, as a player of KK Bosna Sarajevo, in his early career years, he won the Euroleague at the time European Champions Cup.

National team career

He made the national team of Yugoslavia in the early nineties for the 1990 Goodwill Games, the second games which took place in Seattle, United States, along with Dražen Petrović, Toni Kukoč, Žarko Paspalj, Dino Rađa other great stars of Yugoslavian basketball.[1]

Later, in the first appearance of Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team, in EuroBasket 1993, he was the Top Scorer of the tournament averaging 25 (24.6) points per game:

Personal life

Bilalović's mother Ševka Bajraktarević (1934 – 30 September 2013) was the older sister of Silvana Armenulić, famous folk singer in Yugoslavia. Her other sisters Mirjana Bajraktarević and Dina Bajraktarević also maintained folk singing careers of their own.

Death

Bilalović died July 2003 during his vacation to the Croatian coastal town of Makarska from previously diagnosed heart condition.[2] He died of a heart attack on the beach while swimming with his son.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.sportsport.ba/bh_kosarka/in-memoriam-dino-bilalovic/5451 IN MEMORIAM: DINO BILALOVIĆ – 29/07/08
  2. http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=98137 "Sabahudin Bilalovic: The Bosnian who left in 2003"
  3. http://www.eurobasket.com/reports/2009/4/9.asp EUROBASKET NEWS REPORT – 4/9/2009