Drazen Petrovic was a Croatian basketball player, a shooting guard regarded as one of the greatest European players in the sport's history, who starred for Cibona Zagreb and Real Madrid before joining the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and New Jersey Nets in the early 1990s. He won Olympic medals with Yugoslavia and later Croatia and was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame after his death in a car accident in 1993 at age twenty-eight.
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Career HighlightWon two EuroLeague championships with Cibona Zagreb and earned three Olympic medals, including silver in 1988 and 1992, before starring in the NBA with the New Jersey Nets. 3 Classification
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Why did Drazen Petrovic leave the Portland Trail Blazers for the New Jersey Nets?
He wanted more playing time than Portland gave him and asked for a trade.
Petrovic had limited playing time in Portland, where he was behind Clyde Drexler and Terry Porter on the depth chart. In his rookie season he averaged 7.4 points in 12 minutes per game, and his playing time dropped further the next season after the team added Danny Ainge. Frustrated, he said he did not intend to sit on the bench in Portland. At his insistence, 38 games into the season, a three-way trade with the Denver Nuggets sent him to the New Jersey Nets.
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1. Wikipedia: Drazen Petrovic
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Dražen Petrović (Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒen pětroʋitɕ]; 22 October 1964 - 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player.
2. Wikidata: Drazen Petrovic
Wikidata Q209982, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 3. Wikipedia, Drazen Petrovic
Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-date clause: "22 October 1964"
22 October 1964
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, birth-year figure: "22 October 1964"
22 October 1964
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, nationality clause: "Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player"
Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player
en.wikipedia.org lead paragraph, career-highlight sentence
Petrović earned two silver medals (1988, 1992) and one bronze (1984) at the Summer Olympic Games, a gold (1990) and a bronze (1986) at the FIBA World Cup, and a gold (1989) and a bronze (1987) at the FIBA EuroBasket.
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, death-date clause: "7 June 1993"
7 June 1993
en.wikipedia.org lead sentence, death-year figure: "7 June 1993"
7 June 1993
Competed In: National Basketball Association, Lead paragraph (competition)
A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madrid before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.
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