Ivkovic was born in Belgrade, the Serbian capital during the German occupation in 1943. His family is a distant relative of nikola tesla, a famous physicist and electrical engineer. As early as 1968, he retired as a player and began to teach. His first stop was to play as a player. At that time, Radnik (Radni? Ki Beograd), 1973, he led this team to win the then Yugoslav Youth League championship, and was later hired as a teaching assistant by KK Partizan, Serbia's largest club.
1987 took over as head coach of the Yugoslav national team for the first time. He immediately won the silver medal in the men's basketball team of Seoul Olympic Games with 1988, and then won the gold medal in the European Championship with 19 1 In the first half of his coaching career, his most famous international competition was at 10.
At this time, the former Yugoslav national team was known as the "white version of the dream team", and the players in the team had the golden generation of Yugoslavia at that time. Including Vlad Deviak, toni kukoc, Drazen Petrovic, Zarko Paspa, Radisav Kurtsits and other European pioneers who broke the iron curtain in Eastern Europe and joined the NBA in the1990s, and Zhu Lei Zdovich.
At that time, Yugoslav talents were constantly emerging, and in addition, in 199 1, Dinolada, Danilovic and Alexander Dole Devic were added. These Yugoslav players are tall and talented. When Divaz et al. 1990 knocked out the NBA, there were only five players in the NBA who were not NCAA.
Regrettably, however, with the entry into the1990s, Yugoslavia fell into the rule of Serbia, and the contradictions and conflicts among ethnic groups became increasingly high. After many conflicts, it finally entered a full-scale civil war in 1992. In the past, Petrovic and Divaz were brothers of the national team, and they kept in touch and became the documentary "Once Brothers" of ESPN.
Ivkovic said: "If there were no Yugoslav civil war, I believe we would eventually defeat the Dream Team. At that time, the international competition was busy taking photos with NBA stars who had just set foot in the international competition, but we always focused on the game because we all believed that we would beat our opponents. 」
As early as 30 years ago, ivkovic has opened the modern concepts of large organizers and space targeted attacks. He regards these players as children, regardless of nationality, and he always believes that these players can reach the heights that European teams have never had before, but what ivkovic said was 1992, 1994, 1996? I don't know.
Ivkovic is famous for coaching stars and strict discipline, because he doesn't care about the brands of those players. As early as 1980, he was invited to coach with the Greek giant Iris, who had just poached nikos galice, the strongest scorer in Greek history from the United States. At that time, there was a Greek custom that star players didn't take part in morning exercises, but ivkovic broke this custom as soon as he took office, and no one wanted it.
Garis once said, "Duda doesn't care how big your brand is. Do you know what 1980 means? " However, ivkovic only asked everyone how much effort they made off the court before they had a chance to get many achievements on the court.
He won the triple crown twice in his career, namely, domestic league, domestic cup and champions league. He doesn't care about using small brand players. He also brought players such as Peja Stojakovic from Yugoslavia to Greece. In addition, Obradovic, Jojevic and other famous Serbian commanders also said that they were greatly influenced by him.
The last time he led the national team, he took over the position of the Serbian national team in 2009. At that time, Serbia had fallen from the former giants, and it was not until 2007 that he wrote the worst score of 13 in the history of the European Championship, and the whole national team had undergone tremendous changes. Except for nenad krstic, there was no famous Mesozoic era, and no one wanted to take over the hot potato of the national team's signboard. But not only in that year, he boldly used the unknown milos teodosic at that time, making Serbia and Montenegro a big black horse from two years ago. Until the championship game was lost to the invincible fleet Spain, Serbia's status as a former basketball power was re-established.
Ivkovic even received an invitation from the Nuggets in 2002 and flew to the United States to reach a number of understandings with Kiki VanDeWeghe, then general manager of Nuggets. It is expected that he will become the first European coach to coach the NBA in the form of consulting for one year and then signing a multi-year contract. However, the Nuggets were too slow at that time, and their expected signing date was delayed because of the boss's holiday, which was finally won by CSKA.
In a word, ivkovic has become one of the greatest European coaches of this generation. It was not until 20 16 that he retired from the first line at the age of 72. He has been teaching for most of his life, and his influence will spread with his children and continue to affect the whole European generation.