Drazen died, it's really horrible, I know, but if he would have survived, I don't know how it would have been for him," Edebal says. Daly retired. Miocic sat there that evening and wondered about the situation. His rookie year showed that Wagner's ability was for real as he put up 13.4 points per game in only 29 minutes. The rich, as they say, were about to get richer. LeGarie had represented the first western European in league history (Spaniard Fernando Martin), and was versed in the challenges of representing players essentially untried against NBA players. After averaging 7.6 points and just 12.4 minutes in that first season, Petrovic overstayed his welcome in Portland and was traded to the New Jersey Nets just 26 games into the 1990-1991 season. Szalantzy, as promised, waited in her car at the Frankfurt airport, where she planned to drive Petrovic to Munich. “It was very short [the trip],” Miocic remembered. Each and every day in practice he would be the first guy to come and the last guy to leave the gym. He was wary of outsiders who were seeking a sudden entrance into the world of his close friend, the star athlete. An opportunity with the Trail Blazers, with whom he had spent his first season, was limited, but he took advantage of his next one with the Nets, and within two years he was, effectively, the NBA's third-best shooting guard. "I'm pretty sure he was going to end up back with us," Reed says. Endorsements. "I used to be a national basketball player. But Mozart wouldn't cut it in the NBA. Not long before the accident, Petrovic made his last phone call to Goyak to announce his latest accomplishment: a spot on the All-NBA third team. Everyone wants to be there. His two strong years in the NBA have had as strong an effect on basketball in the NBA, and internationally as any other player's since. According to the accident report, Szalantzy was driving the small red Volkswagen Golf at 180 kilometers per hour, which translates to 112 miles per hour on a very wet autobahn. Anyone over the age 20 has at least a faint idea of the impact that Magic had on the league, how integral he was to the Lakers-Celtics rivalry, and the league's overall health in the 1980s. “You look and you say ‘alright, this team has a nice young tandem in Derrick [Coleman] and Kenny [Anderson] but when you looked for the shooting, he went a long way to becoming a perfect compliment for those guys. "I really don't remember what we talked about," says Edebal. At the time of the report, Szalantzy returned to driving and was juggling modeling in the United States with professional basketball in Germany. "He knew the history of the NBA, and he also knew that he was breaking ground for future European players. It's all a blur. She told the paper she could remember almost nothing about the accident. "We were on the right track," Reed says. Veljko Mrsic was one of the team’s younger members, and he sat there amongst his sullen teammates, the room filled with an eerie quiet. In 2008, Petrovic was honored as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors. Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD. Buckwalter would take every opportunity he could to get to Europe and see them play, and it was a beautiful combination of flair and fundamentals that first attracted him to Petrovic. She was airlifted from the scene and taken to a hospital, having suffered a broken hip and broken arm along with the head injuries. After the game, Petrovic and Miocic joined Szalantzy and her friend for dinner at the Houlihan’s restaurant, which was close to the arena and frequented by Nets’ players after home games. Petrovic was characteristically very comfortable with his fans, often accommodating them not only with an autograph but also a photo and a conversation, but even then there was a limitation to his interaction and involvement. Though he didn't join the NBA until he was 25, the Croatian sensation, Drazen Petrovic, made an impact that will forever ripple throughout the pond of the NBA. "I don't give up because I want to work," She says. Wagner was hyped and touted by many, and taken sixth in the 2002 draft by the Cavaliers. The force left her injured enough, according to a report later published, to spend a week in hospital before being released (though the extent is unknown, as Szalantzy does not reveal publicly any information of the accident nor its aftereffects). Untold damage was done to the league and the career potential of many great players during the 70s and 80s, and Bias stands as the poster child for how horribly damaging and dangerous that time and culture was.
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