Dejan Bodiroga is a Serbian basketball executive and former professional player, who is currently the President of EuroLeague Basketball. In 1998 and 2002, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav Olympic Committee also declared him the Sportsman of the Year. He was named to the FIBA All-Time EuroStars Team in 2007. In 2018, he was named one of the 101 Greats of European Basketball. HoopsHype named Bodiroga one of the 75 Greatest International Players Ever in 2021. He was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022.
Bodiroga in 2006
Sport was a Serbian daily sports newspaper. The first edition was published on 5 May 1945 under the name Fiskultura and the last edition went out on 17 September 2016. Since the mid-2000s it was billed as "Dnevni sportski list", while previously it used to be known as "Jugoslovenski sportski list".
Novak Đoković, the last laureate and the only athlete to win the Golden Badge four times.
Miroslav Cerar, the first athlete to win the Golden Badge three times.