Sabahudin "Dino" Bilalović (7 May 1960 – 29 July 2003) was a Bosnian professional basketball player.
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | Trebinje, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia | 7 May 1960||||||||||||||
Died | 29 July 2003 Makarska, Croatia | (aged 43)||||||||||||||
Nationality | Bosnian | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1982: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1977–1999 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Center | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
1977–1989 | Bosna Sarajevo | ||||||||||||||
1989–1990 | KK Vojvodina | ||||||||||||||
1990–1992 | Bosna Sarajevo | ||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Hapoel Nahariya | ||||||||||||||
1993–1994 | CB Breogán | ||||||||||||||
1994–1995 | KK Zagreb | ||||||||||||||
1995 | Lugano Tigers | ||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | Speyer | ||||||||||||||
1997–1999 | Česko 93 Sarajevo | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Medals
|
About
editHe 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
editHe 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:
- vs. Latvia he scored 36 points,
- vs. Estonia he scored 29 points,
- vs. Croatia he scored 28 points,
- vs. Sweden he scored 26 points.
- vs. Italy he scored 22 points.
- vs. Russia he scored 21 points.
- vs. Spain he scored 18 points.
- vs. Greece he scored 17 points.
Personal life
editBilalović'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
editBilalović 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]
References
edit- ^ IN MEMORIAM: DINO BILALOVIĆ – 29/07/08
- ^ "Sabahudin Bilalovic: The Bosnian who left in 2003" ACB. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
- ^ EUROBASKET NEWS REPORT – 4/9/2009 KK BOSNA marks 30th Anniversary of winning European Champion title – (...) Mirza Delibasic Kindje and Sabahudin Dino Bilalovic have [passed] away, but they will be remembered by all KK Bosna fans forever. (...)