Sabahudin "Dino" Bilalović (7 May 1960 – 29 July 2003) was a Bosnian professional

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player.

About

He was born in

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. In 1979, as a player of

KK Bosna Sarajevo KK Bosna Meridianbet ( bs, Košarkaški klub Bosna Meridianbet) is a professional basketball team based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the most successful Bosnian club of all time, having been the EuroLeague champion by winning the 1 ...

, in his early career years, he won the Euroleague at the time European Champions Cup.

National team career

He made the national team of

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in the early nineties for the

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, the second games which took place in Seattle, United States, along with

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other great stars of Yugoslavian basketball. Later, in the first appearance of

Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team The Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national basketball team ( Bosnian: ''Košarkaška reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine'' / Кошаркашка репрезентација Босне и Херцеговине) represents Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

, in

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, he was the Top Scorer of the tournament averaging 25 (24.6) points per game: * ''vs.'' Latvia ''he scored'' 36 points, * ''vs.'' Estonia ''he scored'' 29 points, * ''vs.'' Croatia ''he scored'' 28 points, * ''vs.'' Sweden ''he scored'' 26 points. * ''vs.'' Italy ''he scored'' 22 points. * ''vs.'' Russia ''he scored'' 21 points. * ''vs.'' Spain ''he scored'' 18 points. * ''vs.'' Greece ''he scored'' 17 points.

Personal life

Bilalović's mother Ševka Bajraktarević (1934 – 30 September 2013) was the older sister of

Silvana Armenulić Silvana Bajraktarević (born Zilha Bajraktarević; 18 February 1939 – 10 October 1976), known professionally as Silvana Armenulić (), was a Bosnian singer-songwriter and actress and one of the most prominent commercial folk music and traditi ...

, famous folk singer in Yugoslavia. Her other sisters Mirjana Bajraktarević and Dina Bajraktarević also maintained folk singing careers of their own.

Death

Bilalović died July 2003 during his vacation to the Croatian coastal town of

Makarska Makarska (; it, Macarsca, ; german: Macharscha) is a town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split (city), Split and northwest of Dubrovnik, in the Split-Dalmatia County. Makarska is a prominent regional tourist center, ...

from previously diagnosed heart condition. He died of a heart attack on the beach while swimming with his son.EUROBASKET NEWS REPORT – 4/9/2009
''KK BOSNA marks 30th Anniversary of winning European Champion title – (...) Mirza Delibasic Kindje and Sabahudin Dino Bilalovic have assedaway, but they will be remembered by all KK Bosna fans forever. (...)''

References

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