Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Girisi yaizokunda chinyorwa chinotevera muna 1987
uye yakatevera iyo nemenduru yesirivha pa1989 edition muYugoslavia. EuroBasket 1991 ndiyo yekutanga EuroBasket mutambo umo vatambi veNBA varipo parizvino, avo vakatotamba mumutambo weNBA wenguva dzose vakatobvumidzwa kutora chikamu. Yaizovawo edition yokutanga apo maSoviet akanga asina kupinda mumakwikwi, sezvo USSR haina kukwanisa kupinda mumutambo mukuru uye yakazoparara. Yugoslavia yaizotora zita racho, asi pashure hondo yaizoparadzanisa nyika naJure Zdovc kuva "munhu akafa" pashure pokunge Slovenia yazivisa rusununguko, mazuva maviri mumutambo. 1993 yakaona mukundi anoshamisa, neGermany ichitora mukwikwidzi pamusha nekukunda Russia nepfungwa imwe. Pashure pokumiswa muna 1993, FR Yugoslavia yakadzoka ndokutora mukombe pashure pokukunda Lithuania, iyo yakanga ichiita kuoneka kwayo kwokutanga, sezvo yakanga iri nyika yeSoviet Union. Asi zvematongerwe enyika zvakauya mukutamba pamwe neboka rinopikisa "Lithuania ndiyo shasha", nepo chikwata cheCroatia chakanga chakunda Greece nokuda kwebronze chichienda pasi kubva pachigaro chokupikisa hondo yakanga ichiitika panguva iyoyo.