FIBA Hall of Fame. FIBA named the annual international basketball cup the "FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup". Personal life Stanković was born in Bihać, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). Early in his life, he moved to Novi Sad, and then to the Syrmian town of Ledinci, during World War II. After the war, Stanković went to Belgrade, where he graduated from the University of Belgrade, with a degree in veterinary medicine. In 1966, he pledged his efforts to basketball full-time, ending a 10-year career as a veterinary inspector for meat control in Belgrade. Stanković died on 20 March 2020 in Belgrade. He had one daughter, two granddaughters and two great grandchildren. Orders and special awards The following is a selected list of orders and special awards: Olympic Order (1987) Order of Merit of FR Germany (1987) National Order of the Lion (1999) Knight of the Legion of Honour (2001) Order of Merits of FR Yugoslavia (2002) Order of Honor of Republika Srpska (2010) FIBA Order of Merit (2015) In popular culture Stanković is portrayed by Aleksandar Radojičić in the 2015 Serbian sports drama We Will Be the World Champions and the 2016 Serbian TV series The World Champions. See also Radomir Šaper Aleksandar Nikolić Nebojša Popović References External links FIBA Hall of Fame page on Stankovic The Man Who Changed International Basketball, CorD Magazine 1925 births 2020 deaths Basketball executives Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate basketball people in Serbia Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Centers (basketball) FIBA Hall of Fame inductees International Olympic Committee members KK Crvena zvezda players KK Crvena zvezda youth coaches KK Partizan coaches KK Partizan players KK Železničar Beograd players Male veterinarians Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees OKK Beograd coaches Pallacanestro Cantù coaches People from Bihać Player-coaches Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Serbian basketball executives and administrators Serbian expatriate basketball people in Italy Serbian expatriate basketball people in Switzerland Serbian men's basketball coaches Serbian men's basketball players Serbian table tennis players Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian people of Czech descent University of Belgrade Faculty of Veterinary Medicine alumni Yugoslav basketball coaches Yugoslav table tennis players Yugoslav men's basketball players 1950 FIBA World Championship players 1942 Belgrade Basketball Championship players Recipients of orders, decorations, and medals of Senegal