 In the summer of 1988, Danilović's two-year ban finally expired and the player was free to suit up for Partizan.Already familiar with the players he had been practicing with for more than a year, the eighteen-year-old joined a roster laden with talent at all positions — twenty-one-year-old point guard Saša Đorđević, twenty-two-year-old forward Žarko Paspalj who could play both the three and four positions, twenty-two-year-old small forward Ivo Nakić, twenty-year-old versatile center Vlade Divac, and his twenty-one-year-old backup Miroslav Pecarski as well as a pair of experienced twenty-eight-year-olds