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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player (1964–1993) Dražen Petrović Petrović with the New Jersey Nets in 1992 Personal information Born (1964-10-22) 22 October 1964 Šibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia Died 7 June 1993 (1993-06-07) (aged 28) Denkendorf, Germany Nationality Croatian Listed ...
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Once Brothers is a 2010 sports documentary film written and directed by Michael Tolajian. It was co-produced by ESPN and NBA Entertainment for ESPN's 30 for 30 series.. The film chronicles the relationship of two basketball players from SFR Yugoslavia—Vlade Divac and Dražen Petrović ().
The arena was built in 1987, to be used at the 1987 Summer Universiade and was then known as the Cibona Sports Centre (Croatian: Sportski centar Cibona).On 4 October 1993, it was renamed after the late former NBA player and basketball Hall of Famer, Dražen Petrović, a former Cibona Zagreb star.
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Born in Šibenik, Dražen was the second child of Serbian Jovan "Jole" Sports Illustrated on the Yugoslavs Divac and one of the Croats on that team, another budding NBA star named Drazen Petrovic, used to speak on the phone almost every day after they joined the NBA. In '92, after the war started, Petrovic suddenly stopped returning Divac's ...
The 1992–93 New Jersey Nets season was the Nets' 26th season in the National Basketball Association, and 17th season in East Rutherford, New Jersey. [1] During the off-season, the Nets hired Chuck Daly as head coach; Daly led the Detroit Pistons to two straight championships in 1989 and 1990.
There were various drug-related problems that plagued players in the 1986 NBA draft. Most notable was the death of highly touted Len Bias. Bias died less than two days after being selected second overall by the defending champion Boston Celtics. His death was ruled an overdose that resulted from taking the drug cocaine.