Radivoj Korać
Serbian basketball player
Died when: 30 years 209 days (366 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
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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 (since 1958), at 99 points scored, in a game versus Alviks, 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 FR Yugoslavia 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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