Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i tana whakataetae nui i te EuroBasket 1947, kaore i roa te wa o te kapa motu o Yugoslavia ki te whakataetae i runga i te ao me te mētara tuatahi, he hiriwa, i te EuroBasket 1961. Ko nga hua tino nui o te whenua ko te wikitoria e toru i te FIBA World Championships (i te 1970, 1978, me te 1990), he mētara koura i te 1980 Olympics i Moscow, hei taapiri ki nga whakataetae Pakeha e rima (e toru o ratou i te 1973, 1975, me te 1990).
1977, i whai ake i ētahi atu e rua i te 1989 me te 1991). I muri i te wikitoria o te 1970 FIBA World Championship, i kaha ake te rongonui o te poitūkohu puta noa i te whenua, i arahi ai nga mana ki te tiimata i te hanganga o etahi whare hakinakina o roto. Ko etahi o nga papa i hangaia i tenei wa ko: Dom Sportova o Zagreb (1972), Belgrade's Hala Pionir (1973), Baldekin Sports Hall i Šibenik (1973), Dvorana Mladosti i Rijeka (1973), Hala Pinki i te taone nui o Belgrade o Zemun (1974), Čair Sports Center i Niš (1974), Kragujevac's Hala Jezero (1978), Morača Sports Center i Titograd (1978), Gripe Sports Center i Split (1979), etc.