Yugoslavia National Basketball Team
The Yugoslavian national basketball team represented the Kingdom and socialist Yugoslavia. Its of governing body was the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia, whose seat was in Belgrade. It is not considered as Serbia and Montenegro national basketball team.
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