Aleksandar Nikolić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksandar Nikolić

basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1924

Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 12-Mar-2000

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolic (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????????? "???" ???????; 28 October 1924 – 12 March 2000) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach.
He was also a professor at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Sport and Physical Education.
He is often referred to as the Father of Yugoslav Basketball.The future basketball coaches taught by Nikolic include Božidar Maljkovic, Dušan Ivkovic, Bogdan Tanjevic, Željko Obradovic, etc.
Nikolic was nicknamed The Professor, Iron Sergeant, and The father of Yugoslav basketball.
Nikolic was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1998, and into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.