Jelovac, who is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the Yugoslav First Federal League, was inducted into the Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame, in 2012.

With the Yugoslavia under-18 national team, he won the silver medal at the 1968 FIBA European Championship for Juniors.

The year after that, he was a member of Yugoslavia's team at the 1972 Munich FIBA Summer Olympics, where they finished in fifth place.

After that, Jelovac won a gold medal at the 1973 FIBA EuroBasket, which was Yugoslavia's first ever European Basketball Championship title.

Jelovac also competed with Yugoslavia at the 1976 Montreal FIBA Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal.