WHO IS KRESIMIR COSIC?
The 6-foot-11-inch Cosic played center for B.Y.U. from 1971 to 1973, earning all-Western Athletic Conference selection each season and pacing B.Y.U. to two conference titles. He averaged 19.1 points a game while in college. After leaving Brigham Young, he was drafted by the NBA several times and once by the ABA (Cosic was drafted by the Portland Trailblazers in 1972 (10th round); then by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1973 (5th Round) as well as the ABA's Carolina Cougars; and lastly by the Boston Celtics in 1976) but Kresimir chose to return to Yugoslavia, where he was a national hero as a player and later, as a coach. Kresimir Cosic was a four-time Olympian, leading Yugoslavia to a silver medal in 1968 (Mexico City) and a gold medal in 1980. He was the first foreign player to earn All-American honors from the United Press International, garnering them in 1972 and 1973. After his college career, he rejected several professional offers and returned home to Yugoslavia. �osi� played in four Olympic Games: 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980 in Moscow when he led his team to the gold medal. He previously led Yugoslavia to a pair of World Championship gold medals in 1970 and 1978. Following his playing days, he turned to coaching, and led the former Yugoslav team to a silver medal in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. �osi� became only the third international player ever elected to the world's Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of basketball. In the years following basketball he worked in the USA as a Croatian diplomat at the Embassy in Washington, D.C. �osi� died in 1995 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Known Cards (checklist).
1970-71 Panini CAMPIONI DELLO SPORT Stickers #245
1973 Campioni dello Sport #266
1974 Sport Vedette Panini #42
1981-82 Panini Stickers
199x HOF gold foil set
2005 Croatia commemorative stamp 3.50