1986–87 Yugoslav First Basketball League

Sports season

1986–87 Yugoslav First Basketball League
League	Yugoslav First Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
Duration	17 March – 21 April 1987 (Playoffs)
Regular season
Season champions	Cibona
Playoffs
Finals champions	Partizan
Runners-up	Crvena Zvezda
Yugoslav First Basketball League seasons
← 1985–86 1987–88 →

The 1986–87 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 43rd season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.

Teams

SR Croatia

Cibona
Jugoplastika
Šibenka
Zadar

SR Serbia

Borac Čačak
Crvena Zvezda
Partizan

SR Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosna
Sloboda Dita Tuzla

SR Macedonia

SR Montenegro

Budućnost

Regular season

Classification

	Regular season ranking 1986-87	G	V	P	PF	PS	Pt
1.	Cibona	22	22	0	2242	1960	44
2.	Partizan	22	18	4	2105	1950	40
3.	Jugoplastika	22	15	7	2040	1816	37
4.	Crvena Zvezda	22	15	7	1974	1860	37
5.	Šibenka	22	12	10	2006	1982	34
6.	Bosna	22	12	10	1950	1914	34
7.	Zadar	22	9	13	1897	1979	31
8.	MZT Skopje	22	7	15	1771	1892	29
9.	Budućnost	22	7	15	1826	2010	29
10.	Borac Čačak	22	7	15	1839	1968	27
11.	Sloboda Dita Tuzla	22	5	17	1816	1957	27
12.	KGD Rabotnički	22	3	19	1758	2036	25

Results

Home \ Away	CIB	PAR	JUG	CZV	ŠIB	BOS	ZAD	MZT	BUD	BOR	SLT	RAB
Cibona	—	111–103	105–103	99–89	104–96	121–90	91–88	101–80	126–101	112–90	105–96	120–103
Partizan	86–111	—	90–88	97–84	101–88	90–84	86–81	106–76	109–93	110–93	105–75	110–86
Jugoplastika	77–80	102–84	—	93–78	109–100	89–84	91–83	84–80	126–86	115–86	120–75	100–75
Crvena Zvezda	91–93	92–102	94–91	—	92–84	94–84	96–90	91–70	81–76	98–88	94–80	96–87
Šibenka	102–109	93–87	70–90	74–72	—	106–84	95–96	86–79	107–92	85–76	118–86	104–98
Bosna	78–94	81–82	84–70	88–105	107–91	—	108–84	93–88	79–76	106–82	74–71	116–72
Zadar	76–91	83–86	85–98	80–82	79–84	90–86	—	99–81	96–75	108–78	88–85	87–61
MZT Skopje	75–78^[1]	79–81	87–80	80–81	86–105	102–106	73–93	—	90–83	80–78	79–70	84–73
Budućnost	93–109	82–102	73–70	63–89	75–76	84–79	85–79	79–69	—	83–72	93–87	101–82
Borac Čačak	73–81	90–91	75–81	91–90	100–79	75–87	89–70	78–79	77–75	—	80–77	79–68
Sloboda Tuzla	81–94	94–105	75–79	72–84	84–88	80–83	86–76	70–68	112–72	106–93	—	70–69
Rabotnički	89–107	84–92	67–84	78–101	76–75	68–69	75–86	77–86	93–86	87–99	90–84	—

Source: Pearlbasket.org
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	Cibona	2

8	MZT Skopje	0
			1	Cibona	1

			4	Crvena Zvezda	2
4	Crvena Zvezda	2

5	Šibenka	0
						4	Crvena Zvezda	0

						2	Partizan	2
2	Partizan	2

7	Zadar	0
			2	Partizan	2

			3	Bosna	1
3	Jugoplastika	1

6	Bosna	2

PLAY-IN QUALIFYING ROUND 17-21-24/03

Šibenka-IMT 90-87, 95-115, 101-95

Bosna-Olimpija Ljubljana 120-101, 105-102

Zadar-Borac 77-79, 76-68, 97-80

MZT Skopje-Buducnost 93-80, 95-91

QUARTERFINALS 28-31/03,04/04

Jugoplastika-Bosna 89-76, 85-92, 82-84

Cibona-MZT Skopje 117-92, 84-79

Partizan-Zadar 105-88, 81-93, 110-92

Crvena zvezda-Šibenka 91-90, 94-89

SEMIFINALS 7-11-14/04

Cibona-Crvena zvezda 92-74, 92-94, 103-104

Partizan-Bosna 85-77, 96-103, 107-96

FINALS 18-21/04

Partizan-Crvena zvezda 78-73, 89-88

The winning roster of Partizan:^[2]

Vlade Divac
Žarko Paspalj
Goran Grbović
Aleksandar Đorđević
Milenko Savović
Želimir Obradović
Ivo Nakić
Slaviša Koprivica
Savo Stefanović
Obrad Ignjatović
Vladimir Dragutinović
Dejan Lakićević
Slobodan Kanjevac
Boris Orcev

Coach: Duško Vujošević

Scoring leaders

Dražen Petrović (Cibona) - ___ points (37.1ppg)^[3]

Qualification in 1987–88 season European competitions

FIBA European Champions Cup

Partizan (champions)

FIBA Cup Winners' Cup

IMT (Cup winners)

FIBA Korać Cup

Cibona (1st)
Jugoplastika (3rd)
Crvena Zvezda (4th)
Šibenka (5th)

Basketball Cup

Preliminary round

Key to colors
	Top placed team in each group advanced to semifinals

Titov Vrbas tournament

	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	Partizan	3	3	0	6
2	Cibona	3	2	1	4
3	Mornar Bar	3	1	2	2
4	Borac Čačak	3	0	3	0

Prizren tournament

	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	Smelt Olimpija	3	3	0	6
2	Bosna	3	2	1	4
3	Šibenka	3	1	2	2
4	Bashkimi	3	0	3	0

Zenica tournament

	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	IMT	3	3	0	6
2	MZT Skopje	3	2	1	4
3	Garnizon JNA	3	1	2	2
4	Željezničar Sarajevo	3	0	3	0

Čakovec tournament

	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts
1	Jugoplastika	3	3	0	6
2	Budućnost	3	2	1	4
3	Vojvodina	3	1	2	2
4	Zorka Šabac	2	0	2	0

Bracket

Semifinals		Finals



Jugoplastika

Smelt Olimpija
		Smelt Olimpija	73

		IMT	76
Partizan	80

IMT	86

References

^ "Bnl viewer". istorijskenovine.unilib.rs. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
^ "Yugoslav basketball league standings 1945-91". nsl.kosarka.co.yu. Archived from the original on 2 July 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^ Martinović, Dragan (22 January 2017). "Dražen Petrović Ili Radivoj Korać?". Koš magazin. Retrieved 12 February 2017.