Košarkaški klub Atlas ( sr-cyrl, Кошаркашки клуб Атлас), commonly referred to as KK Atlas Belgrade, was a Serbian men's professional
basketball
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club
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises
...
based in
Belgrade
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.
Founded in 1972 as KK Novi Beograd, the
publicly owned club's name kept changing in accordance with sponsorship agreements over its subsequent 34-year run. Its best known name KK IMT—after its main sponsor
Industrija mašina i traktora (IMT), an
agricultural machinery
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manufacturer—was used from 1973 until 1991, a period during which the club recorded its biggest success: winning the 1986-87
Yugoslav Basketball Cup
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.
History
Founded in 1972 as KK Novi Beograd, the club changed its name the following year, in 1973, to KK IMT (KK Industrija mašina i traktora).
For the
1983–84 season, IMT gained promotion to the
Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League
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(top-tier basketball competition in SFR Yugoslavia). It finished the league season in 9th place. The following season 1984–85, IMT finished in 12th place and got relegated back to Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League B (Yugoslav second-tier competition).
The club achieved its greatest success under the guidance of young head coach
Dragan Šakota
Dragan Šakota (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Шакота, Greek: Ντράγκαν Σάκοτα; born June 16, 1952) is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently with LBa basketball club, Pallacanestro Reggiana.
Playing career
Šakota ...
, winning the
Yugoslav Cup
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in the 1986–87 season at the national cup final tournament in
Niš
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. The winning roster included veteran point guard
Srećko Jarić
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Early career
Jarić began playing youth club basketball with the youth teams of Radnički Bel ...
, shooting guard
Zoran Krečković, young power forward
Ljubisav Luković, small forward , veteran power forward
Arsenije Pešić, shooting guard
Nikola Jokanović
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Career
Jokanović started his playing career with a Užice-based team Prvi Partizan ...
, Milenko Babić, Radivoje Milosavljević, Dragan Živanović, etc. They defeated
KK Olimpija
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Olimpija has won 23 National League championships, including eight consecutive titles between 1992 and 1999. They ...
76–73 in the final in front of 7,000 spectators at
Hala Čair, with Mlađan scoring 25 points and Pešić adding 19, while Olimpija got 31 points from as well as veteran
Peter Vilfan
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and young
Jure Zdovc
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both adding 14.
reference
/ref> It was the only time in the history of Yugoslav basketball that the cup competition was won by a club not playing in the top-tier First Federal League. The same season IMT achieved promotion to the First Federal League.
Once returning to the top-tier First Federal League in 1987, it played in the top competition until the disintegration of Yugoslavia. It achieved its best placing with a 6th-place finish in the 1990–91 season.
In 1991, the club's name changed to KK Infos RTM, however, they got relegated at the end of the 1991–92 season. In 1992, another name change occurred, this time to KK IMT-Železničar.
In 1994, the club became known as KK Beopetrol. They gained promotion back to the top-tier for the 1997–98 season. In the 1998–99 season they again finished the season in 6th place thus repeating their previous best placing. During the 2001–02 season the club got relegated again due to finishing dead last.
On 27 June 2003, due to a sponsorship deal with Atlas Bank, the club changed its name to KK Atlas.
In the summer of 2006, the club sold its Basketball League of Serbia
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license to KK Radnički Zastava
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* Kk. or Kirk ...
and thus stopped to competing.
Players
Head coaches
* Dragan Šakota
Dragan Šakota (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Шакота, Greek: Ντράγκαν Σάκοτα; born June 16, 1952) is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently with LBa basketball club, Pallacanestro Reggiana.
Playing career
Šakota ...
(1983–1988)
* Milan Minić
* Rajko Toroman
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Coaching career
Before 2016, he served as a team consultant for the Barako Bull Energy Cola and the Petron Blaze Boosters i ...
(1989–1991)
* Miroslav Nikolić
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Playing career
Nikolić played professional basketball for KK Goša from Smederevska Palanka, OK ...
(1991–1992)
* Zoran Krečković (1996–2000)
* Ljubisav Luković
* Slobodan Klipa
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Playing career
A point guard, Klipa played 17 seasons in Yugo ...
(2000)
* Vojislav Vezović
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Early life and playing career
Vezović was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia. In Belgrade, ...
(2000–2001)
* Aleksandar Glišić (2001–2002)
* Predrag Badnjarević
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(2002–2004)
* Zoran Slavnić
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(2004)
* Luka Pavićević
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Professional career
A point ...
(2004–2005)
* Srećko Sekulović (2005)
* Dragan Vaščanin (2005–2006)
Trophies and awards
Trophies
*Yugoslav Cup
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**Winner (1): 1986–87
* Yugoslav Federal B League
**Winner (2): 1982–83, 1986–87
*YUBA B League
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History ...
**Winner (2): 1996–97, 2002–03
Awards
* Yugoslav League Top Scorer
**Milan Mlađan
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– 1988–89
Notable players
*
* Dragan Šakota
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Playing career
Šakota ...
* Goran Grbović
* Dragoljub Vidačić
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Born to a father from Trebinje and mother from Gornji Milanovac, Vidačić was raised in Višegrad with three older brothers.
Coach ...
* Dušan Kecman
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Club ca ...
* Kosta Perović
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* Žarko Čabarkapa
* Nikola Peković
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* Delonte Holland
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High school and college career
Born and raised in Greenbelt, Maryland, Holland attended high school at Eleano ...
* Stefan Marković
* Slađan Stojković
* Mijailo Grušanović
* Rade Milutinović
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College career
Milutinović played college basketball for the San Diego-based U.S. International University. ...
* Igor Perović
* Nenad Bukumirović
* Milan Preković
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* Srđan Jeković
* Nebojša Savić
* Ranko Velimirović
* Branko Sinđelić
* Ljubisav Luković
* Uroš Duvnjak
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* Nebojša Zorkić
International record
References
External links
KK Atlas
at srbijasport.net
KK Atlas
at srbijasport.com
{{IMT 1986–87 Yugoslav Basketball Cup Champions
Atlas
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Basketball teams in Yugoslavia
Basketball teams established in 1972
Basketball teams disestablished in 2006
1972 establishments in Serbia
2006 disestablishments in Serbia