Radivoj Korać, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRadivoj Korać
Serbian basketball player
Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1938
Place of Birth: Sombor, Vojvodina, Serbia
Date of Death: 02-Jun-1969
Profession: basketball player
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Radivoj Korać
- Radivoj Korac (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ?????; 5 November 1938 – 2 June 1969) was a Serbian and Yugoslav professional basketball player.
- He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.
- Korac is well known for holding the EuroLeague's all-time single-game scoring record, at 99 points scored, in a game versus Alvik Basket, during the 1964–65 season, and for once making 100 out of 100 free throws on a live television show in Belgium.Korac died in a car crash in 1969, at the age of 30, and FIBA Europe later established the European-wide third-tier level FIBA Radivoj Korac Cup, in his remembrance, in 1971.
- Korac was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.
- In 2002, the Basketball Federation of Serbia named its top national domestic cup competition, the Radivoj Korac Cup, after him.
- He was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007, and was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors the following year.
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