Sabahudin Bilalović
Sabahudin "Dino" Bilalović (7 May 1960 – 29 July 2003) was a Bosnian professional basketball player.
Contents
- 1 About
- 2 National team career
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Death
- 5 References
About
He was born in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1979, as a player of KK Bosna Sarajevo, in his early career years, he won the Euroleague at the time European Champions Cup.
National team career
He made the national team of Yugoslavia in the early nineties for the 1990 Goodwill Games, the second games which took place in Seattle, United States, along with Dražen Petrović, Toni Kukoč, Žarko Paspalj, Dino Rađa other great stars of Yugoslavian basketball.
Later, in the first appearance of Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team, in EuroBasket 1993, 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, 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 from previously diagnosed heart condition. He died of a heart attack on the beach while swimming with his son.