1987–88 Yugoslav First Basketball League
LeagueYugoslav First Basketball League
SportBasketball
Regular season
Season championsSocialist Republic of Croatia Jugoplastika
Playoffs
Finals championsSocialist Republic of Croatia Jugoplastika
  Runners-upPartizan

The 1987–88 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 44th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

Teams

Socialist Republic of Croatia SR Croatia

Socialist Republic of Serbia SR Serbia

Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina SR Bosnia and Herzegovina

Socialist Republic of Macedonia SR Macedonia

Socialist Republic of Montenegro SR Montenegro

Socialist Republic of Slovenia SR Slovenia

Regular season

Classification

Regular season ranking 1987-88 Pt G V P PF PS
1.Jugoplastika432221120251764
2.Cibona392217522352007
3.Partizan372215720661973
4.Smelt Olimpija362214820181943
5.Zadar3222101220501974
6.Crvena Zvezda3222101219371997
7.IMT312291320422106
8.Šibenka312291319762020
9.Bosna302281419922028
10.Borac Čačak292271518392002
11.MZT Skopje282261618582046
12.Budućnost282261619152093

Results

Home \ Away JUG CIB PAR OLI ZAD CZV IMT ŠIB BOS BOR MZT BUD
Jugoplastika — 96–83 90–85 99–73 82–73 86–77 119–85 86–76 98–90 111–73 95–74 97–81
Cibona 86–87 — 99–90 110–90 84–72 98–88 100–86 111–91 102–96 124–89 117–104 106–96
Partizan 79–87 90–88 — 93–98 84–78 85–95 110–96 90–83 115–110 98–99 96–82 103–94
Olimpija 82–83 84–78 87–92 — 99–86 99–77 99–96 95–89 99–79 109–96 94–74 96–78
Zadar 76–84 91–92 83–86 109–107 — 102–86 100–88 100–79 87–94 88–87 109–63 122–94
Crvena Zvezda 86–90 101–104 85–106 101–88 93–89 — 83–85 96–79 97–90 95–89 96–86 99–92
IMT 81–95 97–96 85–95 96–98 121–112 85–87 — 94–82 86–93 83–79 95–92 100–109
Šibenka 90–71 90–96 87–76 78–89 107–103 104–85 98–125 — 111–93 82–83 107–99 108–91
Bosna 88–96 86–103 107–121 73–92 83–84 90–84 93–97 82–77 — 105–78 95–77 83–78
Borac Čačak 76–85 100–128 81–89 91–85 78–81 87–74 86–84 74–75 91–82 — 87–79 63–76
MZT Skopje 83–91 86–104 80–95 92–80 94–90 76–77 76–73 92–97 69–98 88–74 — 111–97
Budućnost 67–97 97–126 79–87 73–75 89–114 87–75 102–104 89–86 86–83 81–78 79–81 —
Source: Pearlbasket
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Playoff

Only the top four placed league table teams qualified for the playoffs quarterfinal automatically.

Teams placed fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth were joined by the top two Second League teams for an 8-team play-in round. The winner of each best-of-three series advanced to the playoffs quarterfinal round.

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
1 Jugoplastika 2
8 Šibenka 0
1 Jugoplastika 2
4 Smelt Olimpija 0
4 Smelt Olimpija 2
5 Zadar 1
1 Jugoplastika 2
3 Partizan 1
2 Cibona 2
7 IMT 0
2 Cibona 1
3 Partizan 2
3 Partizan 2
6 Crvena Zvezda 0
PLAY-IN QUALIFYING ROUND

Zadar-Vojvodina 101-84, 78-81, 95-81

Crvena Zvezda-Prvi Partizan 98-91, 94-83

IMT Beograd-Borac 121-86, 112-113, 107-87

Šibenka-Bosna 103-102, 98-109, 108-93

QUARTERFINALS

Jugoplastika-Šibenka 107-80, 107-96

Olimpija Ljubljana-Zadar 77-76, 77-82, 82-76

Cibona-IMT Beograd 127-103, 89-86

Partizan-Crvena Zvezda 105-96, 101-90

SEMIFINALS

Jugoplastika-Olimpija Ljubljana 103-81, 86-83

Cibona-Partizan 102-91, 90-103, 77-83

FINALS

Jugoplastika-Partizan 101-79, 80-86, 88-67

Finals

Top-seeded Jugoplastika reached the playoff finals dominantly, rampaging though the league with a 21–1 regular season record followed by two confident playoff sweeps.

On the other hand, despite being the defending champions, third seed KK Partizan returned to the playoff finals somewhat unexpectedly, having to overcome second seed KK Cibona's home-court advantage in their semifinal series by improbably defeating the Zagreb team away in deciding game three, 77–83, with Cibona's superstar Dražen Petrović held to only 13 points while Partizan's best player, young center Vlade Divac, scored 23 points.[1]

Game 1: Jugoplastika vs. Partizan 101-79

Twenty-year-old Divac would also become the main story of the finals' opening game despite being absent from it due to picking up a knee injury under never fully explained circumstances. It would later come out that his injury likely occurred jumping out of a hotel window while leaving, without permission, the pre-finals team quarantine to meet with his girlfriend.[1] As a result of missing their best player, Partizan struggled mightily in game one away in Split, getting blown out by 22 points, 101–79, with Jugoplastika's young center Dino Rađa scoring 23 points, Željko Poljak adding 16, and young Toni Kukoč scoring 15.[1] On the other hand, hapless Partizan's best contribution was from their young point guard Saša Đorđević who scored 22 points.[1]

Game 2: Partizan vs. Jugoplastika 86-80

Seeing that they have no chance without Divac's inside presence, Partizan hustled their injured young center back on the court. Playing on one leg with a heavily bandaged knee, Divac still led the game two scoring with 18 points as Partizan pulled out an 86–80 victory at home.[1] It was only Jugoplastika's second loss of the entire season.

Game 3: Jugoplastika vs. Partizan 88-67

Still-injured Divac appeared in the deciding game three back in Split but was no match for the rampant home team looking for their first league title since 1977. The fact that Partizan played with virtually no inside presence under the basket was heavily exploited by Jugoplastika's center line of Rađa and Goran Sobin, as their backup center Sobin posted his season-high 28 points.[1] Jugoplastika won the game easily, claiming the league title.

The winning roster of Jugoplastika:[2]

Coach: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Božidar Maljković

Scoring leaders

  1. Dražen Petrović (Cibona) - ___ points (38.0ppg)
  2. Milan Mlađan (IMT) - __ points (30.1 ppg)[3][4]

Qualification in 1988-89 season European competitions

FIBA European Champions Cup

FIBA Cup Winners' Cup

FIBA Korać Cup

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bjelobaba, Darko (7 January 2016). "Sezona 1987-88: Pojava nove košarkaške dinastije". Koš magazin. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Yugoslav basketball league standings 1945-91". nsl.kosarka.co.yu. Archived from the original on 2 July 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  3. ↑ reference
  4. ↑ Martinović, Dragan (22 January 2017). "DRAŽEN PETROVIĆ ILI RADIVOJ KORAĆ?". Koš magazin. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
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