Radomir Šaper was a Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player and administrator. As a player, he represented KK BASK, KK Crvena zvezda

KK Crvena zvezda

Košarkaški klub Crvena zvezda is a professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name Crvena zvezda means Red Star and it's part of the Red Star Belgrade sports society ....

 and KK Partizan

KK Partizan

Košarkaški klub Partizan is a Serbian professional basketball club. It is part of the multi-sports Belgrade-based club Partizan. The club competes in the Serbian League, Adriatic League and the Euroleague....

 on club level, he also played for the Yugoslavia national basketball team

Yugoslavia national basketball team

The Yugoslavian national basketball team represented the Kingdom and socialist Yugoslavia. Its of governing body was the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia, whose seat was in Belgrade....

. He served as a president of the Yugoslav Basketball Federation for 8 years, Commissioner of the Yugoslav League and President of the Technical Commission of FIBA

International Basketball Federation

The International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA , from its French name Fédération Internationale de Basketball, is an association of national organizations which governs international competition in basketball...

 (1972–1988). In 2007, he was enshrined as a contributor in the FIBA Hall of Fame

FIBA Hall of Fame

FIBA Hall of Fame honors basketball players, coaches and administrators who have contributed to international competitive basketball. It was established by FIBA in 1991. It includes the "Samaranch Library", the biggest basketball library in the world that, as of 2007, has over 10,000 basketball...

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External links

• FIBA Hall of Fame page on Shaper
• Sećanje na Radomira Šapera, B92, December 9, 2008