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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 ...
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.
- October 22, 1964
Jun 12, 1993 · 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 attended by dignitaries, politicians ...
Jun 7, 2023 · Dražen Petrović’s basketball legacy lives on 30 years after his death. Rustin Dodd. Jun 7, 2023. 35. The following piece on Dražen Petrović originally published Feb. 8, 2022. Petrović died ...
- Rustin Dodd
- Staff Writer
Jun 9, 1993 · In his last game, Petrovic, a 6-foot-5 guard, scored 30 points for the Croatian national team in a 94-90 loss to Slovenia, another Yugoslav republic, Sunday in Wroclaw, Poland.
Jun 8, 2024 · Yesterday was the 31st anniversary of basketball legend Drazen Petrovic's death. The Croatian hooper tragically passed away in a car accident in Germany on June 7, 1993. He was just 28 years old ...
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.
