Bulgarian volleyball legend Plamen Konstantinov came to basketball relatively late in life.

The 2.02m outside hitter grew up in a volleyball family, but once he started playing the sport professionally he found himself more and more attracted to the orange ball.

Asking handball superstar Ivano Balic what his favorite sport is may seem like a stupid question.  After all Balic has an Olympic gold medal and a World Championship to his name, but if you do bother to ask you'll get an unexpected answer.

"I still think basketball is the best sport," says the 1.89m middle back.

If you were living in Slovenia in 1970 it was difficult not to fall in love with the game of basketball.

In that year Ljubljana, which is now the capital of Slovenia, but was then a part of Yugoslavia, hosted the final round of the FIBA World Championships, and for locals it was a dream outcome.

There are few countries in Europe as basketball crazy as Serbia. 

In 2009, storied club side Partizan Belgrade shattered attendance records when 22,527 fans showed up at Belgrade Arena to watch their team take on Panathanaikos in the Euroleague Top 16.