His steps were confident and determined. As always, competing on the floors. His smile betrayed no embarrassment. He knew well why people adored him and enjoyed it. It wasn’t until Pilaya’s “shirt with 7” was lifted up in Pilaya’s “Palataki” and “O Bane Bane” vibrated in the atmosphere that his eyes moistened for a second. The emotion of the moment for living with the black and white colors of PAOK.

The Fiesta honoring the club’s greatest basketball form has gone down in history and brought unique memories to all who saw Bain Prelevik compete.

“Red Star” answered “yes” to the $50,000 offer, and thus the Greek procedures immediately began, and Aris realized what was happening, and the matter left the sports part and went into politics.

“Bein Prelewicz is as Greek as the Prime Minister of Austria” they say to Aris. Years later, he gave the answer: “I feel like a basketball player, my nationality is something completely alien to my work. The main thing in our lives is to be safe and happy.”

On August 19, the Kozani Court of First Instance found that the player’s maternal grandfather, Panagiotis Albanos, was born in 1880 in Eratira, Kozani.

Prelevich is added to the roster of the “Two-Heads” of the North along with Nikos Stavropoulos, Panagiotis Fasula and John Korfa, creating a group that has seemed great since its debut, breaking the monopoly of Aris.

“I left the kingdom of basketball for the empire of sports. I will prove that PAOK did not spend money on me.” he declared as soon as he set foot in Thessaloniki.

Against Villeurbanne in France, the 23-year-old Prelevic made his debut with 29 points, two more than Mike Jones, the first foreign player in Black and White history. PAOK won 93-83 and the rest is history…

If there was anything that scared Bane during his years in Thessaloniki, it had to do with the war in his country. His mind has always been there. When sirens wailed and gunfire began in Belgrade in March 1999, many of his teammates saw him in the dressing room hunched over and crying.

He “extracted” the soul from himself, as in the final defeat of Nantes against Real Madrid, where his excess (29 points on 5/8 shots, 3/10 two-pointers, 6/10 three-pointers, 4 rebounds, 4 assists) did not reached PAOK to lift the cup, and his beautiful scream on the floor was and remains one of the strongest images of basketball in the 90s.

All this from a Serb who over the years became a Greek and in practice was loved like a few in PAOK and will remain in the history of Greek basketball in awe of an opponent, an irresistible Nick Galis.