Abstract
In this study were investigated cognitive abilities of the best junior basketball players of Serbia. The research was making on the sample of 80 junior basketball players 17 and 18 years old. They are distributing in three groups on the base of independent expert's mark of player's success (from 1 to 10). Cognitive abilities of each player were estimated by 5 tests: D48 (test of general intelligence), S1 (test of visual spacialisation), P1, F1 and F2 (tests of perceptive factor of cognitive abilities). Values of the group's centroide show that first group (the best junior players) differ significantly from the two others group (tests D48 and F2), but there is no significant difference between second and third groups.