In his ten seasons with Zvezda over two stints, he played 304 games for the club (tied with Zoran Slavnić) and scored 4,732 points.

[4] One year later, Ilić made the Yugoslavia national under-18 team at the 1986 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship in Austria.

[5] Ilić was a member of the Yugoslavia national under-19 team that won the gold medal at the 1987 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Bormio, Italy.

[6] In each of the three tournaments, Svetislav Pešić was the head coach, while Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoč, Radenko Dobraš, and Slaviša Koprivica were his teammates.

Since then, he worked with four head coaches; Dušan Ivković, Aleksandar Đorđević, Igor Kokoškov, and current Svetislav Pešić.