ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - Drazen Petrovic, the most famous Croatian basketball player who lost his life in a road accident in 1993, on Friday was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts.
ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - Drazen Petrovic, the most famous Croatian
basketball player who lost his life in a road accident in 1993, on
Friday was inducted into the Hall of Fame, Springfield,
Massachusetts. #L#
Joining Petrovic in the Class of 2002 were Earvin "Magic" Johnson,
coaches Larry Brown and Lute Olson, women's coach Kay Yow and the
Harlem Globetrotters team.
Petrovic, hailed as a superstar in his motherland, once scored 112
points in a Croatian league game. His skills propelled him into a
brief career in the NBA, cut short by his tragic death at the age of
28 in the car accident in Germany. He played one year with the
Portland Trailblazers and three with the New Jersey Nets until his
death in 1993.
Petrovic is the third Croatian to be inducted into the Basketball
Hall of Fame. Before him, Kresimir Cosic joined "residents" of this
Hall, and before Cosic it was George Mikan, who was proclaimed as
the best basketball player in the first half of the last century.
On Friday's ceremony, the award for Drazen was given to Drazen's
mother Biserka and brother Aleksandar Petrovic.