The research took place in the basketball camp 'Kikinda '07'. The sample of basketball players, consisted of 20 boys and 17 girls 15 years of age, from different Kikinda's basketball clubs. Estimation of level of the cognitive abilities of boys and girls basketball players was on 9. VIII 2007. year. Estimation of level 'general' intelligence was provided by 'MENSA' Serbia. Estimation of 'space' intelligence was done using S-1 test (from the KOG 3 battery) consisting 30 tasks nonverbal type (abilities of presenting and imaging of the space relations). In the aim of proving the difference between two groups the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) a significant statistical differences between boys and girls appeared at the level of intelligence in boys favor (a significant statistical difference didn't appear at the level of 'general' intelligence). The results of this research approve the results of other previous researches.
