Košarkaški klub Atlas ( sr-cyrl, Кошаркашки клуб Атлас), commonly referred to as KK Atlas Belgrade, was a Serbian men's professional

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based in

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. Founded in 1972 as KK Novi Beograd, the publicly owned club's name kept changing in accordance with sponsorship agreements over its subsequent 34-year run. Its best known name KK IMT—after its main sponsor Industrija mašina i traktora (IMT), an

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manufacturer—was used from 1973 until 1991, a period during which the club recorded its biggest success: winning the 1986-87

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History

Founded in 1972 as KK Novi Beograd, the club changed its name the following year, in 1973, to KK IMT (KK Industrija mašina i traktora). For the 1983–84 season, IMT gained promotion to the

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(top-tier basketball competition in SFR Yugoslavia). It finished the league season in 9th place. The following season 1984–85, IMT finished in 12th place and got relegated back to Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League B (Yugoslav second-tier competition). The club achieved its greatest success under the guidance of young head coach

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, winning the

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in the 1986–87 season at the national cup final tournament in

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. The winning roster included veteran point guard

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, shooting guard

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, young power forward

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, small forward , veteran power forward

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, shooting guard

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, Milenko Babić, Radivoje Milosavljević, Dragan Živanović, etc. They defeated

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76–73 in the final in front of 7,000 spectators at Hala Čair, with Mlađan scoring 25 points and Pešić adding 19, while Olimpija got 31 points from as well as veteran

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and young

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both adding 14.reference
/ref> It was the only time in the history of Yugoslav basketball that the cup competition was won by a club not playing in the top-tier First Federal League. The same season IMT achieved promotion to the First Federal League. Once returning to the top-tier First Federal League in 1987, it played in the top competition until the disintegration of Yugoslavia. It achieved its best placing with a 6th-place finish in the 1990–91 season. In 1991, the club's name changed to KK Infos RTM, however, they got relegated at the end of the 1991–92 season. In 1992, another name change occurred, this time to KK IMT-Železničar. Hala sportova Novi Beograd

In 1994, the club became known as KK Beopetrol. They gained promotion back to the top-tier for the 1997–98 season. In the 1998–99 season they again finished the season in 6th place thus repeating their previous best placing. During the 2001–02 season the club got relegated again due to finishing dead last. On 27 June 2003, due to a sponsorship deal with Atlas Bank, the club changed its name to KK Atlas. In the summer of 2006, the club sold its

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license to

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and thus stopped to competing.

Players

Head coaches

(1983–1988) * Milan Minić *

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(1989–1991) *

Miroslav Nikolić Miroslav "Muta" Nikolić (; born 8 January 1956) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. Playing career Nikolić played professional basketball for KK Goša from Smederevska Palanka, OKK Beograd, Vršac, IMT, Maribor and ...

(1991–1992) *

(1996–2000) *

Slobodan Klipa Slobodan Klipa ( sr-cyr, Слободан Клипа; born 1 August 1960) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player who serves as the U-19 head coach for Qingdao. Playing career A point guard, Klipa played 17 seasons in Yugo ...

(2000) *

Vojislav Vezović Vojislav Vezović ( sr-cyr, Војислав Везовић; born 19 November 1948) is a Serbian former professional basketball coach and player. Early life and playing career Vezović was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia. In Belgrade, h ...

(2000–2001) * Aleksandar Glišić (2001–2002) *

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(2002–2004) *

Zoran Slavnić Zoran "Moka" Slavnić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Мока Славнић; born 26 October 1949) is a Serbian retired professional basketball player and coach. He played with Crvena zvezda and with Partizan. One of the best European point guar ...

(2004) *

Luka Pavićević Luka Pavićević ( sr-cyr, Лука Павићевић; born 17 June 1968) is a Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player. Most recently, he served as the head coach for Alvark Tokyo of the Japanese B.League. A point guard, P ...

(2004–2005) *

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(2005) *

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(2005–2006)

Trophies and awards

Trophies

**Winner (1): 1986–87 * Yugoslav Federal B League **Winner (2): 1982–83, 1986–87 *

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**Winner (2): 1996–97, 2002–03

Awards

* Yugoslav League Top Scorer ** Milan Mlađan – 1988–89

Notable players

* *

Goran Grbović Goran Grbović (born 9 February 1961) is a Serbian business manager and former professional basketball player. He is an executive director of the Štark Arena. Playing career Born in Kruševac, after finishing high school, he moved to Čačak. He ...

Dragoljub Vidačić Dragoljub "Ljuba" Vidačić (born December 26, 1970) is a Serbian basketball coach and former player. Early life Born to a father from Trebinje and mother from Gornji Milanovac, Vidačić was raised in Višegrad with three older brothers. Coach ...

Dušan Kecman Dušan Kecman (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Кецман; born November 6, 1977) is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player. During his playing career, he played both shooting guard and small forward positions. Club career K ...

Kosta Perović Kosta Perović ( sr-Cyrl, Коста Перовић; born February 19, 1985) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally. In the 2006 NBA draft he was a second-round se ...

Žarko Čabarkapa Žarko Čabarkapa ( sr-cyrl, Жарко Чабаркапа, ; born 21 May 1981) is a Montenegrin–Serbian professional basketball executive and former player who is Player personnel director at Fenerbahçe Basketball. Standing at , he played i ...

Nikola Peković Nikola Peković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Пековић; born 3 January 1986) is a Montenegrin businessman, basketball executive and former professional player who is the current president of the Basketball Federation of Montenegro. He beg ...

* Delonte Holland * Stefan Marković * Slađan Stojković *

Mijailo Grušanović Mijailo "Mikan" Grušanović ( sr-cyr, Мијаило "Микан" Грушановић; born 19 September 1962) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. Playing career A Center (basketball), center, Grušanović played professional ...

* Rade Milutinović *

Igor Perović Igor Perović (Cyrillic: Игор Перовић; born 3 March 1974) is a German basketball coach and former basketball player of Serbian descent. Professional career While playing for Partizan, Perović won the 1992 Euroleague The EuroLea ...

* Nenad Bukumirović *

Milan Preković Milan Preković (born April 6, 1973) is a former Serbian professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with ...

* Srđan Jeković * Nebojša Savić * Ranko Velimirović * Branko Sinđelić *

Uroš Duvnjak Uroš Duvnjak (born November 19, 1986) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Kolubara of the Basketball League of Serbia. He is a 1.90 m tall combo guard. Professional career In his pro career, Duvnjak has played with the following club ...

* Nebojša Zorkić

International record

References

External links

KK Atlas
at srbijasport.net
KK Atlas
at srbijasport.com {{IMT 1986–87 Yugoslav Basketball Cup Champions

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Basketball teams in Yugoslavia Basketball teams established in 1972 Basketball teams disestablished in 2006 1972 establishments in Serbia 2006 disestablishments in Serbia