Hello and welcome to new and redesigned unofficial fansite of European basketball championship as well as fansite related to all basketball related information including Euroleague, NBA and NCAA events. As you probably know, EC 2005 took place in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, and that was the inspiration for this site, it's... http://www.belgrade2005.com Here are the most recent news from Eurobasket: Thanks to Yahoo News. http://www.belgrade2005.com/eurobasket-news.html Here are the most recent news from Euroleague: Thanks to Yahoo News. http://www.belgrade2005.com/euroleague-news.html Here are the most recent news from NBA: Thanks to Yahoo News. http://www.belgrade2005.com/nba-news.html Here are the most recent news from NCAA: Thanks to Yahoo News. http://www.belgrade2005.com/ncaa-news.html Position: Serbia and Montenegro is situated in South-East Europe, on the Balkan peninsula with access to the Adriatic Sea. Area: Serbia and Montenegro covers a territory of 102,173 sq. km. Serbia covers an area of 88,361 sq. km. whereas the area of Montenegro is 13,812 sq. km. Capital City: Belgrade Borders: The length of the borders of Serbia and Montenegro is 2,585,894 km and the length of the coastline is 294 km. Serbia and Montenegro borders on Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania and Macedonia. Terrain: The northern part is, for the most part, flat country, the central part is hilly and mountainous and the southern part is littoral. Climate: The... http://www.belgrade2005.com/serbia-and-montenegro-basic-facts.html Belgrade is situated on the Balkan peninsula and it is the capital of Serbia and Montenegro. There are 1.6 million cheerful and hospitable inhabitants. It is built on a hilly area above the very confluence of the Sava river and the Danube, between the fertile Panonia plains in the north and green hilly Sumadia region to the south. There are 225 kilometers of river banks, 16 river islands including Ada Ciganlija and Large War Island, and the highest points the mountains of Avala and Kosmaj, as well as the peculiar south-east wind, called Kosava. It is often called “the gate of... http://www.belgrade2005.com/belgrade.html Kosarkaski savez Jugoslavije (KSJ) - The Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (BFY) was founded on December 12, 1948 in Belgrade. It has never changed its location, and the name just once: in April 2003, it was renamed to Kosarkasi savez Srbije i Crne Gore (KSSCG) - Basketball Federation of Serbia and Montenegro (SMBF). The first 55 years of the organization can be divided into two periods. The amateur age – when our pioneers, with an amazing enthusiasm and fervor, were making every effort for the prosperity of basketball, attracting new people with their visionary ideas, courageous decisions and a bold slogan -... http://www.belgrade2005.com/basketball-federation-of-serbia-and-montenegro.html The National Team of Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia) won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, three World Championship titles – Ljubljana 1970, Manila 1978, Buenos Aires 1990, and five European Championship titles – Barcelona 1973, Beograd 1975, Liege 1977, Zagreb 1989 and Rome 1991. The two- republic Yugoslavia, in a short period of its existence, took another two world "crowns" – Athens 1998, Indianapolis 2002, and three European Championships – Athens 1995, Barcelona 1997, and Istanbul 2001. With a total of 14 great titles, our basketball national team is the most successful team... http://www.belgrade2005.com/basketball-in-serbia-and-montenegro.html The 1975 European Championship, with its final round in the Belgrade arena "Pionir", succeeded to join the three elements – the supreme play of "Plavi", the magnificent audience and an outstanding TV production – what resulted in an unforgettable basketball spectacle. For the first time, the Yugoslavians won against the Soviet Union in a great Final (90:84). Previously, in Barcelona, in 1973, the Spaniards ejected the USSR from the fight for the gold medal and assigned our players a "homework" - to confirm the title without anyone's help. And it was on the 15th of July that this very act was... http://www.belgrade2005.com/belgrade-basketball-festivities.html The title of "the king of scorers" should be held by the American Nick Georgalis, that is, a famous, shirt number 4 player of the national team of Greece – Nicos Galis. He won the Championship best scorer title even four times, with an impressive average of 30 points per game! He was born on May 23rd, 1957 in New Jersey - his parents Greeks (his father had emigrated from Rhodos), and shaped as a basketball player at the Seaton Hall University. He was the third scorer of the 1979 NCAA Championship, when the name of the first one was… Larry... http://www.belgrade2005.com/eurobasket-best-scorers.html The top ten scorers of Eurobasket 2005 were: Dirk Nowitzki (GER) - 26.1 ppg Juan Carlos Navarro (ESP) - 25.2 ppg Andrei Kirilenko (RUS) - 17.5 ppg Igor Rakocevic (SCG) - 16.3 ppg Gordan Giricek (CRO) - 15.7 ppg Jorge Garbajosa (ESP) - 14.5 ppg Ramunas Šiškauskas (LTU) - 14.0 ppg Boris Diaw (FRA) - 13.7 ppg Jaka Lakovic (SLO) - 12.8 ppg Spain scored a total of 522 points, with 87 points per game, even though they were only eighth in the field goal percentage, which was 42.7% in their six games at the tournament. Of the top ten games with the most free throws made, Spain held the first,... http://www.belgrade2005.com/eurobasket-2005-statistics.html Here is the list of the final Eurobasket 2005 standings: Greece Germany France Spain Lithuania Slovenia Croatia Russia Israel Italy Serbia and Montenegro Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Latvia Ukraine http://www.belgrade2005.com/eurobasket-2005-final-standings.html