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Jun 7, 1993 · Added: Feb 18, 2003. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 7192736. Source citation. Professional Basketball Player. As a young man during the 1984-85 season, he once scored 112 points in a Croatian League game, hitting 40 of 60 from the field. He was a member of the silver medal-winning Yugoslavian (1988) and Croatian (1992) Olympic teams.
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Professional Basketball Player. As a young man during the...
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Jun 9, 1993 · Fans gathered in front of the coffee bar co-owned by the New Jersey Nets star Drazen Petrovic to pay tribute today to the basketball player and national hero of this war-torn country who died in a ...
Oct 9, 2005 · "Drazen is gone now," said Mirko Novosel, head coach of Croatia's national basketball team, who recruited Petrovic at the age of 17. "And there will be no one like him." Knicks fined $25,000
Jun 12, 1993 · How could it have happened and why him?" Petrovic was 28, a star for the New Jersey Nets at the height of his athletic career, when he died on Monday in a car accident in Germany. His funeral was ...
Jun 13, 1993 · Petrovic died Monday in a car accident in Germany. He was 28. Amid flowers, candles, and dozens of pictures, his body was escorted to the grave by Tudjman's guard of honor.
Oct 22, 2023 · Born in Šibenik on 22 October 1964, Petrović was just 28 years of age when he tragically died in a car accident in Germany after returning from playing for Croatia in Poland in 1993.
Jun 7, 2013 · Petrovic averaged 20.6 points per game on 50 shooting from the field in '91-92, finishing second in the league's Most Improved Player award voting and scoring 40 points in his Nets postseason ...
