He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.
Popović played for a Belgrade-based team Crvena zvezda of the Yugoslav First League during 1950s.
[1] Popović was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team that participated at the 1955 European Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Over ten tournament games, he averaged 8.1 points per game while shooting 62.2 percent from the field.
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