Borislav Stanković

(1925-2020)

Serbian basketball player-coach

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Borislav "Bora" Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислав "Бора" Станковић; born 9 July 1925) is a Serbian former basketball player and coach, as well as a longtime administrator in the sport's various governing bodies, including FIBA and the International Olympic Committee. He represented the senior Yugoslavian national basketball team internationally. For his contributions to the game of basketball, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. Stanković was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000. He is most known for allowing players from the NBA to compete at the Summer Olympics, after he changed FIBA's rules to allow players from the NBA to compete, while he was FIBA's Secretary General in 1989.