Dražen Petrović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Yugoslav Croatian basketball player
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Place of Birth: Šibenik, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia
About Dražen Petrović
- Dražen Petrovic (pronounced [dra?en petro?it?]; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Croatian professional basketball player.
- A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989. A star on multiple stages, Petrovic earned two silver medals and one bronze in Olympic basketball, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA World Cup, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA EuroBasket, and two EuroLeague titles.
- He represented Yugoslavia's national team and, later, Croatia's national team.
- He earned four Euroscars, and was named Mr.
- Europa twice.
- In 1985, he received the Golden Badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia.Seeking a bigger arena after his career start in Europe, Petrovic joined the NBA in 1989, as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers.
- After playing mostly off the bench that year, Petrovic experienced a breakthrough following a trade to the New Jersey Nets.
- While starting for the Nets, he became one of the league's best shooting guards.
- Petrovic's career and life were cut short after he died in a car accident at the age of 28.
- He received the Olympic Order in 1993. Petrovic is considered the crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA.
- Petrovic's jersey number 3 was retired by the Nets in 1993, and in 2002, he was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
- In 2013, he was voted the best European Basketball player in history by players at the 2013 FIBA EuroBasket.
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