The players were joined by a number of former NBA coaches and youngsters from Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia in setting up a new basket, new playground surface and benches in front of the Livada primary school.

The participants included one of the best European centres of all time Vlade Divac of Serbia, 2005 NBA champion Raso Nesterovic of Slovenia, as well as a number of players with stints in the NBA, such as Dalibor Bagaric, Bruno Sundov, Zan Tabak (all Croatia), Zarko Cabarkapa (Montenegro) and Dragan Tarlac (Serbia).

"The idea for the camp came from us, the players who came to the NBA from the area of the former Yugoslavia. We got along well in the US. I wanted to get the children out of the war-torn areas and to tell them that we understand each other, although we are from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Montenegro," Divac told the STA.

Nesterovic also believes that the camp is a good idea, as meetings of current and former basketball players have become a regular practice in the US. "I think this campaign is great and that there will be many more."

The Basketball without Borders Europe project is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year by organising basketball camps for young players in Ljubljana, Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg.

The project was created by the NBA and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to set up a global programme for the development of basketball and creating of conditions for positive changes in education, health and wellbeing through sport.

As part of the project, NBA representatives and former player will visit the Children's Clinic of the Ljubljana UKC hospital on Wednesday.