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Dražen Petrović
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Croatian basketball player (1964-1993)
Dražen Petrović was a Croatian basketball player who lived from 1964 to 1993 and became one of the first European players to achieve major success in the NBA. He matters because he broke barriers for international players in American professional basketball and remains an important figure in Croatian sports history.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- L' effet direct des accords internationaux de la Communauté européenne
- L' effet direct des accords internationaux en droit européen
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Croatia
- Active from
- 1935-02-18
- Active to
- 2011-01-10
Discography
- Follow Me1985
- Sarabanda1986
- Tiffany Girl1990
- Round Midnight2002
- From Moscow to L.A.2017
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Recent developments in Geant4
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- Fate and distribution of pharmaceuticals in wastewater and sewage sludge of the conventional activated sludge (CAS) and advanced membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment
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- Polyurethanes from Vegetable Oils
· 2008 · cited 820x
- Removal of pharmaceuticals during wastewater treatment and environmental risk assessment using hazard indexes
· 2010 · cited 807x
- Tunable room-temperature magnetic skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayers
· 2017 · cited 713x
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Quotes
- “I respected my talent till my sixteenth. Afterwards, I swayed toward hard work.”
- “Nobody ever won all games. As sooner you get it, the better.”
- “Regardless of one million dollars or five, ten or one hundred, you can daily only have lunch and supper once.”
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Deceased Basketball
- Position
- Shooting Guard
- Nationality
- Croatia
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 91
- Official website
- www.mmcdrazenpetrovic.hr
- Image
- Lipofsky-JDražen Petrović.jpg
- Height
- 196
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- Commons category
- Dražen Petrović
- date of birth
- 1964-10-22
- date of death
- 1993-06-07
- nickname
- Mozart of the Hoops
- name in native language
- Dražen Petrović
- end of work period
- 1993-00-00
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
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Article
Dražen Petrović ( Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒen pětroʋitɕ]; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. 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.
A star on multiple international basketball stages, 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. He was the FIBA World Championship MVP in 1986 and the FIBA EuroBasket MVP in 1989. With Cibona Zagreb, Petrović also won two consecutive EuroLeague championships in 1985 and 1986. He first represented Yugoslavia's senior national team and later Croatia's senior national team. He earned four Euroscars and was named Mr. Europa twice. In 1985, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia.