 The club was founded on March 4, 1945, as a basketball section of the Crvena zvezda Sports Society.By winning the first of ten consecutive championship titles after the Second World War, the golden age of Crvena zvezda began.No domestic national selection could be imagined without seven or eight Zvezda's players and the first five featured Nebojša Popović, Tullio Rochlitzer, Aleksandar Gec, Ladislav Demšar, and Srđan Kalember.