In late February 1965, at the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia conference held in Sarajevo, one of the closest associates of former Federation President Knezević, Radomir Šaper, Ph.D. in engineering, was elected president. For the first time in post-war Yugoslav sports, a former national team player became the president of a sports association. In 1967, Šaper was re-elected president, and in the autumn of that year, real basketball began, and a championship for the first time was played on courts, according to the European Basketball Calendar.