The monument was erected at the Drazen Petrovic Square in the Croatian capital in tribute to one of the best Croatian and European basketball players in the late 1980s.
Petrovic, born in the coastal city of Sibenik in 1964, is one of the most celebrated basketball players to ever emerge from Europe. He is considered the crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA.
He died in a traffic accident on a rain-drenched Autobahn 9 at Denkendorf, near Ingolstadt, Germany, on 7 June 1993, four and a half months before his 29th birthday.
The monument, made by sculptor Kuzma Kovacic, was unveiled in the presence of Drazen's parents, brother Aleksandar, who was also a basketball player and coach, his teammates and friends, and many public figures from sport and political circles.