In 1991, the game of basketball celebrated its 100th birthday, since James Naismith invented it.
In Europe, FIBA celebrated the fact with an exibition game between a Balkan selection team and a Rest of Europe one...
And it turned out to be a very representative game of 90s european basketball.
Toni Kukoc, Dino Radja, Zarko Paspalj, Jure Zdovc, Zoran Savic, Nikos Galis, Panayotis Giannakis, Panayotis Fassoulas, Fanis Christodoulou played main roles for the Balkan team...
Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Antonello Riva, Jordi Villacampa, Antonio Martin, Richard Dacoury, Stephan Ostrowski, Sergei Bazarevich, Roberto Brunamonti, were the ones for the Rest of Europe selection...
The talented Balkan team were strong favourites, but the Rest of Europe team proved to be pretty tough...
Galis - at age 34, provides some nice plays, combining with Kukoc, Radja and Paspalj, proving that when he played next to talented players, he could also be an ideal playmaker...apart from being his usual self in scoring (20 points - top scorer of the game).
Jure Zdovc, the robot, gives the balkan team a 103-102 victory in the end. You can see him wondering: "Out of all those star players, I was chosen to be the one to take the last shot" ?
The game took place in Piraeus, in Olympiacos arena, the Peace and friendship Stadium...
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