Trailblazer
"Petrovic paved the way for other international players to compete successfully in this league."
- NBA commissioner David Stern
On this date in 1993, New Jersey Net guard Drazen Petrovic, a 1993 All-NBA Third Team selection and a member of the Croatian team that won a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, was killed in an automobile accident in Germany.
In 2002 he was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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