Historic photo exhibition stops in Belgrade
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 Euroleague Basketball is proud to announce that the historic photographic exhibition seen by thousand of fans during the Final Four last season is making its third stop of the current season in Belgrade, Serbia. After being shown during January and February at Barcelona's "Museu Olímpic" and in March at Italy's Palalottomatica, the home court of Lottomatica Roma, the exhibition is now in Belgrade for two weekends. Euroleague playoff team Partizan is hosting the exhibition, which opened on Saturday in the city's Gran Casino and will move to Belgrade Arena for the Adriatic League's final tournament from April 16 to 18. Legends who are the subjects of some of the photos, like Predrag Danilovic, were on hand for the exhibition's Belgrade opening.
This one-of-a-kind photo exhibition covers all five decades in European club basketball. From Royal IV SC Anderlechtois of Luxembourg, the first team to win a European Cup game on February 22, 1958, up to and including the dramatic finish of the 2007 Final Four, the photo exhibition captures many of the most thrilling moments played out for European basketball fans over the past 50 years. The exhibition in Rome will have special photos of the victory of Banco di Roma in the Euroleague in 1984, specially of the hero of that period Larry Wright. Over 160 pictures will be exhibited at the The exhibition also features historic roster sheets, magazine and newspaper covers, and documents such as the boxscore of the 1960s game in which the late, great Radivoj Korac of OKK Belgrade scored 99 points against Alvik Stockholm.
Some of the pictures appearing in the exhibition are courtesy of L'Equipe in France, Gazzetta Dello Sport, Giganti and SuperBasket in Italy, Sportske Novosti, Sport Belgrade and Politika Belgrade in Serbia, As, Mundo Deportivo, Ya, Marca and Gigantes del Basket in Spain, Oslobodjenje in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lietuvos Rytas in Lithuania, as well as some from the private collections of Miguel Angel Fornies and Rodolfo Molina. Clubs like KK Bosna and as well as FIBA have collaborated generously. This project would not have been possible, however, without the help of Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz in Alcobendas, Spain, which contributed more than any other source to the exhibition.
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