The 2016–17 season is the Crvena zvezda 72nd season in the existence of the club. The team played in the Basketball League of Serbia, in the Adriatic League and in the Euroleague.

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2016–17 season
President	Nebojša Čović
Head coach	Dejan Radonjić
Arena	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall Kombank Arena
Serbian League	1st
0Playoffs	0Champions
Adriatic League	1st
0Playoffs	0Champions
EuroLeague	9th
Radivoj Korać Cup	Winner
PIR leader	Kuzmić 13.3
Scoring leader	Simonović 10.6
Rebounding leader	Kuzmić 5.6
Assists leader	Jović 5.7
Highest home attendance	18,487[lower-alpha 1] 78–67 CSKA Moscow (29 December 2016)
Lowest home attendance	500 80–55 Vršac (29 May 2017)
Biggest win	111–56 Borac (31 May 2017)
Biggest defeat	Real Madrid 98–68 (10 March 2017)
Home Away
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All statistics correct as of 30 July 2017.

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Season 2016–17 saw Crvena zvezda parting ways with its two star players, Maik Zirbes and Quincy Miller, as well as Tarence Kinsey, Vladimir Štimac and Vasilije Micić. During the pre-season, the club signed Ognjen Kuzmić,^[1] Milko Bjelica^[2] and Charles Jenkins,^[3] brought talented Petar Rakićević^[4] and promoted Ognjen Dobrić from its development team.^[5] When the season already began, the club brought on Nate Wolters who was waived by Detroit Pistons.^[6] Squad was finally completed mid-season, with the addition of Deon Thompson to the roster.^[7] Building on previous years tactics, Zvezda's trademark became its strong, aggressive defense, pressure on the ball, intercepting passes, steals and resulting fast breaks.^[8][9] In January 2017. coach Dejan Radonjić achieved his 200th victory leading Zvezda.^[10] He also brought another Radivoj Korać Cup to the team.^[11] Zvezda has ended the regular ABA league season with 25 wins on their record, while losing only once, which was the best regular season record made by any team in the history of the regional competition so far.^[12] Team narrowly stayed out of Top 8, ending up on 9th place, having the same number of victories as 8th placed Darussafaka, but having worse head-to-head record. However, it decisively defended ABA league trophy, defeating Budućnost VOLI (2-1) and Cedevita (3-0) on its way.^[13] In the domestic championship, Zvezda ended league part with the score of 13-1, defeated Mega Leks (2-0) and FMP (3-0) in the playoffs, and lifted another trophy.