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FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991), or50 Greatest FIBA Players (1991), is the list of the 50 greatest players in the history ofFIBA internationalbasketball competition, as selected in 1991, by FIBA's official monthly magazine publication,FIBA Basket.
In June 1991,FIBA organised theJubilee Game, between the European Select Team and the Balkan Select team inPiraeus, Greece, in order to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sport ofbasketball. A few months earlier, the monthly magazineFIBA Basket, the Federation's official publication, was issued for first time.
The list was created in honor of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball, byJames Naismith. FIBA had a group of international basketball experts, composed mainly of internationalbasketball coaches, vote for the 50 greatest players list. Each expert voter was tasked with picking 25 players. The voting was tallied as, 25 points for a 1st place vote, 24 points for a 2nd place vote, and so on. There were 51 players selected, as a result of a tie in the vote totals. Players from all over the world were considered to be eligible for the voting, includingNBA players.
Five European players that had played in the NBA up to that time made the list (Divac,Petrović,Marčiulionis,Volkov, andMartín). However, no U.S.A. NBA players made the list, because they were not competing in major FIBA-organized tournaments until the1992 Summer Olympics. Nonetheless, 5 players with U.S.A. citizenship that played in leagues other than the NBA, did make the list (Brabender,Luyk,Galis,Cruz, andMorse).
The voting results were published in the FIBA Basket monthly magazine, which was in circulation from 1991, until the end of the20th century.[1]
Key:
| Also elected to theFIBA Hall of Fame | ||||||
| Country | Player (current independent country) |
|---|---|
 Yugoslavia | 12 |
 Soviet Union | 10 |
 Spain | 7 |
 Croatia | 5 |
 Serbia | 5 |
 Brazil | 4 |
 Italy | 4 |
 Lithuania | 4 |
 Russia | 4 |
 Czechoslovakia | 2 |
 France | 2 |
 Greece | 2 |
 Australia | 1 |
 Belgium | 1 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 |
 Bulgaria | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 |
 Georgia | 1 |
 Hungary | 1 |
 Israel | 1 |
 Peru | 1 |
 Puerto Rico | 1 |
 Slovakia | 1 |
 Slovenia | 1 |
 United States | 1 |
 Ukraine | 1 |
This is a list of the Top10 players (Bob Morse finished 17th) as published on theFIBA Basket magazine in 1991.
| Rank | Player | Country | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Sergei Belov | Soviet Union | 311 |
2. | Dražen Petrović | Yugoslavia | 280 |
3. | Arvydas Sabonis | Lithuania | 277 |
4. | Krešimir Ćosić | Yugoslavia | 273 |
5. | Toni Kukoč | Yugoslavia | 264 |
6. | Nikos Galis | Greece | 251 |
7. | Radivoj Korać | Yugoslavia | 246 |
8. | Dino Meneghin | Italy | 221 |
9. | Dražen Dalipagić | Yugoslavia | 209 |
10. | Oscar Schmidt | Brazil | 205 |
FIBA Europe's select expert committee voted every year for the FIBA European League ("EuroLeague") Player of the Year award, or FIBA European League ("EuroLeague") POY. The award was for Europe's best player during the professionalclub season of the European top-tier levelEuroLeague. At that time, the EuroLeague was still organized byFIBA, and it was officially known as the FIBA European League, or its shortened name, the "FIBA EuroLeague". The winner of each year's award was announced in FIBA's official monthly magazine, FIBA Basket.
Bronze | Member of theFIBA Hall of Fame. |
Silver | Member of theNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. |
Gold | Member of both theFIBA Hall of Fame and theNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been namedMVP. |
| Year | Position | Player of the Year | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arvydas Sabonis | Real Madrid | ||
 Predrag Danilović | Virtus Bologna | ||
| Arvydas Sabonis | Real Madrid | ||
| Artūras Karnišovas | Barcelona CF |
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