He was born on August 4, 1937 in Belgrade and he passed away on September 28, 1995 in Belgrade One of the completely authentic, personal people and yet "a property" of all those that take basketball to the heart, was Slobodan Piva Ivković From the first contact with the basketball until his early death Piva was in the service of progress, basketball development. Wherever he was, whatever he did, Piva never had titles, trophies, medals. in the first plan. He was interested in something else, something that one reaches hard, something that one cannot wait to experience in three lives. Simply, Piva was interested in perfection! It was the perfection of game, ideas, players’ basketball perfection. Piva managed to experience several times this perfection. The first time was in the second half of the 60s, when he wasn’t even 30. He sat on a bench of then strong OKK Belgrade and continued with the line of winning trophies. If then club management had had more understanding, perhaps even the "klonferi" would have been the first YU club to reach the finals of the Champion Cup. The second time he experienced perfection when he made out of immature boys from the Krst a champion team, that made whole Europe shake. This was not because of the fact that they became the champions of Yugoslavia, the winners of the YU Cup and half-finalists of the Champion Cup and finalists of the Cup of Champion Cups, but because of the recognizable game. He coached the teams of Radnički, OKK Belgrade, MZT Skoplje, worked in Kuwait and Emirates. When he was 32 he had already achieved the most success of his career. He was also active in the representation, and few people know that he used to coach one of the best Yugoslav generations, then juniors: Slavnić, Simonović Šolman, Jelovac
Besides the fact that he was always ahead of his time, he knew all the principles of the game of top basketball colleagues, no matter the geographic width and longitude. His favourite was John Wooden, coaching legend and "head coach" of the UCLA. He transmitted great authority, knowledge to younger colleagues, always searching for novelties and he was one of the first Yugoslav coaches that went to the for schooling.
Coaching legend of Radnički from Crveni Krst, Slobodan Ivković, invested the energy and rich experience gathered all over the world, into the establishment of the Association of the Basketball Coaches of Yugoslavia with the sign of Basketball Union of Yugoslavia. Animation of colleagues, pointing that the importance of establishment of the top union was crucial for the skill authority, in the country and abroad, gave results. At Igman in 1991 he gathered the maximum number of coaches and the decision was made to create the Association of Basketball Coaches of Yugoslavia within Basketball Union of Yugoslavia with the seat in Belgrade. He was the first president of the ABCY, he organized seminars and coaching academies of the highest rank.
For many he will remain unreachable.