When it comes to elite club competition in Paris, the host city of the 2010 Final Four, one man perhaps more than any has been in the middle of many unforgettable basketball events in the French capital. For legendary coach Bozidar Maljkovic, some of the major moments in his outstanding coaching career are linked to France and Paris. At the 1991 Final Four, as head coach of Barcelona, Maljkovic faced his former team, Split, to see which of them would win three consecutive titles. Maljkovic lost that night to the team he had built, but in 1996 he was back in Paris, leading Panathinaikos to the first of its five Euroleague titles in a controversial finish against Barcelona, another of his former teams. In between, Maljkovic had engineered - against all odds - the first European crown by a French team in any major sport as Limoges lifted the Euroleague trophy in 1993. Maljkovic later coached the top pro team in Paris and to this day maintains a home in the French capital.