Drazen Petrovic

Yugoslavia is the only country in which basketball comes close to evoking the kind of passion it does in the U.S. Why? "The dancing moves and creativity of the sport fascinate the Yugoslav mind," says Giorgio...

The U.S. rose up to defeat the U.S.S.R. in Madrid and win its first world basketball title since 1954

Larry Bird, Eastern Europeans and Minneapolis are all making comebacks, and, come the spring, the Pistons and the Lakers will be back, playing for the championship