FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991)

FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991) is the list of the 50 greatest players in the history of FIBA international basketball, as selected in the year 1991, by FIBA Magazine. The list was created in honor of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball, by James Naismith. FIBA had a group of international basketball experts, composed mainly of international basketball coaches, vote for the 50 greatest players list. Each expert voter was tasked with picking 25 players. The voting was tallied as, 25 points for a 1st place vote, 24 points for a 2nd place vote, and so on. There were 51 players selected, as a result of a tie in the vote totals. Players from all over the world were considered to be eligible for the voting, including NBA players.

Five European players that had played in the NBA up to that time made the list (Divac, Petrović, Marčiulionis, Volkov, Martín). However, no U.S.A. NBA players made the list, because they were not competing in major FIBA-organized tournaments until the 1992 Summer Olympics. Nonetheless, 5 players with U.S.A. citizenship that played in leagues other than the NBA, did make the list (Brabender, Luyk, Galis, Cruz, Morse).

FIBA's 50 Greatest All-Time Players (1991)

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• Player nationalities were selected by the national team eligibility of each player:

Country	Player (current independent country)
Yugoslavia	12
	Krešimir Ćosić ( Croatia)
	Dražen Dalipagić ( Serbia)
	Ivo Daneu ( Slovenia)
	Mirza Delibašić ( Bosnia and Herzegovina)
	Vlade Divac ( Serbia)
	Dragan Kićanović ( Serbia)
	Radivoj Korać ( Serbia)
	Toni Kukoč ( Croatia)
	Dražen Petrović ( Croatia)
	Dino Rađa ( Croatia)
	Petar Skansi ( Croatia)
	Zoran Slavnić ( Serbia)
Soviet Union	10
	Alexander Belov ( Russia)
	Sergei Belov ( Russia)
	Stepas Butautas ( Lithuania)
	Otar Korkia ( Georgia)
	Šarūnas Marčiulionis ( Lithuania)
	Anatoly Myshkin ( Russia)
	Modestas Paulauskas ( Lithuania)
	Arvydas Sabonis ( Lithuania)
	Sasha Volkov ( Ukraine)
	Viktor Zubkov ( Russia)
Spain	7
	Wayne Brabender
	Francisco "Nino" Buscató
	Juan Antonio Corbalán
	Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi"
	Clifford Luyk
	Fernando Martín
	Emiliano Rodríguez
Brazil	4
	Bira Maciel
	Wlamir Marques
	Amaury Pasos
	Oscar Schmidt
Italy	4
	Pierlo Marzorati
	Massimo Masini
	Dino Meneghin
	Antonello Riva
Czechoslovakia	2
	Stano Kropilák ( Slovakia)
	Ivan Mrázek ( Czech Republic)
France	2
	Jean-Paul Beugnot
	Alain Gilles
Greece	2
	Nikos Galis
	Georgios Kolokithas
Australia	1
	Andrew Gaze
Belgium	1
	Willy Steveniers
Bulgaria	1
	Atanas Golomeev
Hungary	1
	François Németh
Israel	1
	Miki Berkovich
Peru	1
	Ricardo Duarte
Puerto Rico	1
	Teó Cruz
United States	1
	Bob Morse

FIBA's 50 Greatest All-Time Players (1991) Top 10 Vote Results

Rank	Player	Country	Vote Total
1.	Sergei Belov	Soviet Union	311
2.	Dražen Petrović	Yugoslavia	280
3.	Arvydas Sabonis	Soviet Union	277
4.	Krešimir Ćosić	Yugoslavia	273
5.	Toni Kukoč	Yugoslavia	264
6.	Nikos Galis	Greece	251
7.	Radivoj Korać	Yugoslavia	246
8.	Dino Meneghin	Italy	221
9.	Dražen Dalipagić	Yugoslavia	209
10.	Oscar Schmidt	Brazil	205

See also

• FIBA Order of Merit
• FIBA Hall of Fame
  • List of members of the FIBA Hall of Fame
• 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors
• 50 Greatest Players in NBA History

Sources

• Bergum, Bob (2015). Basketball All Greats. pp. 67–68. ISBN 9788892508729.^{[permanent dead link]}

References

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