Croatian Expatriate Basketball People in the United States - Dra En Petrovi, Gordan Giri Ek, Toni Kuko, Dino Ra A, an Tabak, Roko Uki (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dra en Petrovi, Gordan Giri ek, Toni Kuko, Dino Ra a, an Tabak, Roko Uki, Stojko Vrankovi, Damir Markota, Bruno undov, Mario Kasun, Zoran Planini, Dalibor Bagari, Marko Popovi, Davor Rimac. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Selected by Portland Trail Blazers The title of this article contains the following characters: and . Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Drazen Petrovic.Draen Petrovi, (October 22, 1964 June 7, 1993) was a professional basketball player from Croatia. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989. Petrovi's life and career were cut short by an auto accident in Germany when he was 28. A star on multiple stages, Petrovi earned two silver medals and one bronze in Olympic basketball, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA World Championship, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA European Championship, earned four Euroscar Awards, and was named Mr. Europa in basketball twice. Seeking a bigger arena after his career start in Europe, Petrovi joined the National Basketball Association in 1989 as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers. After playing mostly off the bench that year, Petrovi experienced a break-out following a trade to the New Jersey Nets, starting and becoming one of the league's best shooting guards. Petrovi is considered the crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA. Petrovi's #3 was retired by the Nets in 1993 and in 2002, he was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Born in ibenik, a city in Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, Draen Petrovi was the second child of Jovan and Biserka Petrovi. The couple's fi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=679825