The Nets also used him sparingly at first, but they gave him enough playing time to improve his scoring average to 12.6 ppg. "It's hard for you to imagine here in America, because you have so many great players," his brother told the Late in 1993 the Nets retired Petrovic's uniform No. - as SALES All rights, World Documentary - Completed 1996 In June of 1993, at the height of his career, Dražen Petrovic, one of the best basketball talents, or as Juan Antonio Samaranch put it – “the best European basketball player of all times”, left us forever. For the next several years, he dominated the European scene while playing for Real Madrid in Spain.Ultimately he was offered an NBA contract by Portland and earned the right to play after a legal battle resulting in him buying his way out of his Spanish deal (reportedly for as much as $1.5 million), setting off a storm of outrage in Madrid.Petrovic's U.S. debut in the 1989-90 season proved unspectacular. We are all proud of the fact we knew him. Body build Athletic, Eye color Brown – Dark & Hair color Black. Drazen Petrovic was the advent of one of the most far-reaching changes in the makeup of the NBA -- the international influence. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

), bio je hrvatski košarkaš.. Bio je jedan od najvećih hrvatskih i svjetskih košarkaša te je uvršten među 50 osoba koji su najviše pridonijeli Euroligi.Spada u red najvećih hrvatskih sportaša svih vremena. Body Measurements: Drazen Petrovic full body measurements Not Available Right Now.We will update once we get the correct information. The Hall of Fame was probably not in the mind of the son of a police chief while growing up in Sibenik, Croatia, a small port city on the Adriatic Sea. 3 in tribute. Though his NBA career was all too short, Drazen Petrovic left an indelible mark on the league. "You couldn't have wanted a better teammate," New Jersey coach Chuck Daly told the After the Nets fell in the first round of the 1993 playoffs, Petrovic, unhappy with New Jersey management, told reporters he would probably accept a two-year offer to play pro ball in Greece.

He hit on 123 of 277 3-point attempts that season, ranking second in the NBA with a 44.4 percentage. Petrovic also led the Nets in field-goal shooting (50.8) and free-throw shooting (80.8)In the 1992 offseason Petrovic returned to his homeland to lead the newly independent Croatia to a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics and provide the only scare -- albeit brief -- to the United States Dream Team during the entire tournament. Two years later, the Portland Trail Blazers selected him in the third round of the 1986 Draft. But Yugoslavia's travel restrictions and, later, complicated contractual ties kept him away from America until the decade's end.

He was only 28 years old.The loss particularly stunned European fans. Drazen Petrovic’s height 6′ 5″ & Weight 88.5 kg.. Another lasting legacy Petrovic leaves is the Drazen Petrovic Trophy which is awarded to the MVP of the McDonalds Championship, the series between the NBA Champion and the European Champion.NBA.com is part of Turner Sports Digital, part of the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network.

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