Drazen Petrovic's Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2012
- Willis Reed introduces Drazen Petrovic's mother and brother who speak on his behalf upon Drazen's being enshrined to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2002. To learn more about Drazen Petrovic take a look at his official Hall of Fame bio at www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famer...
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Before Steph Curry, Drazen was shooting 3 pointers like no man before.
and after him
Exactly
He deserves this honor. If he wasn’t sadly lost, he would have definitely have made it here. Thank you HOF for stepping up and honoring Mr. Petrovic. A real class act. 👍🏻
Petrovic 😢your will live forever man.
Fly high.
its great to se how americans respect Dražen!
Thank you America
We respect great players!!!
I can't imagine anyone who likes basketball and does not respect Drazen. We Greeks believe there were two GOATS in European basketball, Drazen and Galis
He was one of the most driven players I’ve ever watched. And he never seemed to fatigue even though he went 100mph on ever play.
Like Drazen, Kobe’s HOF presentation will be like this. Rest easy to the greatest European shooter and the Black Mamba
Cedric R Ye good people keep dying too early of an age😞
Mozzart and Mamba live forever!!
For me, the nickname I would give for Petrovic is "European Mamba" because of his unique way of playing and the player who is not afraid of MJ
White mj, jordan and petrovic was the same (mind,leadership,scoring) player
I never knew Drazen was in the HOF, but wow. He deserves it, he would have been such a force
I was there at this ceremony. Will forever be one of the most influential people in Croatia history. He inspired the people of Croatia like nobody can imagine. Will forever be a hero to the Croatian people.
Willis Reed is a great man
R.I.P. WILLIS REED
Great player and great person. He deserves to be inducted into the hall of Fame.
Because of Drazen success in the NBA, now we have all European players after him.
Remember that forever, because of Drazen.
RIP Mozart
A man who lived for basketball and competition on the court....true inspiration
May you rest in peace great Drazen! You may have died young but your legacy will live on forever! First European who played in NBA with great success, you made European and other non American players believe that they could make it to the highest level! I first remember you playing against my country Greece in eurobasket 89! I was 10 back then...
This is so so so so so sad 😢
I loved seeing Drazen play as a kid in Jersey in the early part of the 90s. He shot the ball so effortlessly and he was heart and soul of those early 90s Nets. And that’s why I see a lot of Drazen in Steph. Tragedy happened in his prime and it’s hard to compare, but when I think of best shooter of all time, in my mind, it’s still Drazen, who is my favorite player of all time.
Dražene gde god da si na dalekom nebu
Volimo te najviše mi iz Jugoslavije!!!!!!!!!
As a basketball purist,this brings me tears . I remember watching him as a kid from New York because I was a Derrick Coleman fan,so that’s how I got a soft spot for New Jersey Nets and Drazen Petrovic. Drazen was MONEY!!!
Petrovic was a badass! I'm glad to have seen him play. If you haven't seen him play, sorry, you missed out.
He was an a assassin shooter!
I am from greece,i live greece, i watch him play in europe,when you team pkay agsinst his team ,the fans dont scare the team,scare him,because like jordan he can revers a gap of -25 points to + and win the game,i remembet the 1989 europe cup in athens against cazerta vs real,drazen cut 62 points
respect from Portugal!!!
Drazen was amazing. God bless
Drazen petrivic--najbolji europljanin ikada u nba---best europe player in nba--and best shoter ever lived
Il piu' grande giocatore Europeo di basket .Grazie Drazen !!!
Uz Dzordana, po meni najbolji igrac ikada. Pocivaj u miru legendo.
Tako je i za mene isto♥️👑🇭🇷👍
Quickest release to shoot R.I.P Drazen you will always be remembered.
Drazen,Sibenik,Croatia❤🇭🇷💗
Legenda bio i ostao . Bio si Idol cijeloga balkana . Pocivaj u miru Bozijemu.
my favorite shooting guard....112 points in Spain....wow
In Croatia, when there was no 3 point shot.
its was in yugoslavia vs olimpia when he was 17 yers
Precisely, it happened in October 1985, in Zagreb, Croatia, against Olimpija (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and the game ended at 158:77. Dražen scored 112; 67 (out of 77) in the first half. 🏀 (Part of the whole truth is also that Olimpija, due to administrative reasons, played with their young selection of 16-17-years-old players.)
His energy on the court was a force that opponents dreaded. His fans loved him and I was one of them. By chance I got to know him (we would dine in the same diner/restaurant in Hackensack, NJ, on several occasions) and he sat at our table with the tv which was always on, to his back because he didn't want to see footage of the war going on in Yugoslavia. I did attend the funeral mass in the Catholic Croatian Church in Manhattan and everyone there received a small pin with the number 3 on it. I still have mine and will treasure it forever. Drazen's mother said his favorite song was 'Ave Maria' and a woman somewhere high above us in the church sang it so beautifully there wasn't a dry eye anywhere. Looking at the film we just saw, I saw Willis Reed and coach Chuck Daly, both of them have passed on. This coming June will mark 30 years since Drazen's tragedy.
Well deserved, Drazen.
Simple number 1 in Europe for shore and one of greatest players of all time.
First cat outside of the states I've ever seen with a crossover game! When I saw that, I knew he was legit! And he earned it, when he got the NBA! Gone too soon....!
UNFORGATTABLE!!!!
WONDERFUL!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!
R.I.P. DRAZEN.....
He would have gone down as one of the 10 greatest of all time if he hadn't die so early :'(
Lomi ih sve ovo. HVALA vam obitelj Petrovic na svemu sto ste dali i dat cete za Hrvatsku!. Mi vas volimo i cijenimo sve sto je vasa obitelj dala za Jugoslaviju i Hrvatsku. Volimo vas❤
Život leti kapetane...
..just surch for"Once brothers"..best Sports Docu besides the Bird-Magic Story! Drazen was one of the greatest in Europe,he would have been also one of the greatest in the NBA, if he had just had a few years more! Great one, loved seeing him play the game..specially with ne Nets and in the Barcelona Final! RIP
drazen had a quick release and was a pure shooter.r.i.p.
Drazen was great. Remember his great battles against the Soviet Union in the 80's
Bravo Aco.Forever Drazen♥️🇭🇷👑👍
My best player baskeball
Best shooter ever..
Busted MJ for 40. And yes, MJ was guarding him.
200mphz06 listen I love Drazen but the most points Drazen has scored on MJ was 26 in December 12 of 1992. Head to head, Drazen averaged 16 ppg against Jordan.
@@jimboslice1231 26.12.1992, so?
@@ivanbilic5697 he was not greater than Jordan, but definitely on the same level as Shaq.
@@punchdreadnought8101 Jordan was not greater than Drazen but MJ was the same level as Shaq - not very clever and neither are you.
@@milosobrenovic1241 Drazen is a Yugoslavia GOAT. MJ, LeBron and Kobe are the world's GOATs. Put Drazen with Barkley and MJ + Pip would still have won NBA champs. Drazen was great, but only on Larry Bird or Magic Johnson terms. Im a vietnamese, yet MJ and LeBron are the greatest of WORLD basketball. Luka might be the new GOAT of Yugoslavia, tho.
He definitely was an assassin 🙏🏾🕊
forever in our minds, croatia love him
Italia also ❤
Watched him from day one in the NBA was so upset when the Blazers traded him because I knew he was an absolute assassin on the court. Forever young, thanks Drazen
DRAZEN je bio virtouz I tesko da ce ikad neko dosegnuti visine I rezultate koje je Drazen osvaao sa lakocom...Ne samo da je vanserijski I najboli igrac Europe svih vremena bio je I sjajna licnost....Rame uz rame najvecih legend sporta....U Evropi ga niko nece dostici,jednostavno jer je najbolji!!!!
Unlike Len Bias, who never got a chance or Kobe, who was retired... Drazen was in his prime and poised to compete for All NBA teams for the next 5 years. So sad what happened to him.
Una autentica pena. Nos hemos quedado sin verlo mas.
Jedan od najvećih ikada!!
REST N PEACE DRAZAN PETROVIC HE HAD A GREAT JUMPSHOT HE CAME INTO HIS AFTER THAT 50PT GAME HE REALLY HAD A VALUED CAREER AND REMAINS A HERO TO HIS HOMELAND TO THIS VERY DAY HEY THANKS DRAZAN PETROVIC...YOU DID YOUR THING AND PLAYED THE GAME WITH ALOTTA EMOTION AND WITH A GREAT DEAL OF LOVE AND PASSION FOR THE GAME...DRAZAN PETROVIC# HALL OF FAMER.. :)
DRAZEN PETROVIC BEST SHOOTER EVER
A LEGENED!!
Loved that Nets team. Chuck Daly was coach. And they still had Kenny Anderson and Coleman. Portland sure made a mistake in not using him in 90 Finals and keep him. Loved Drazen! 3x Olympic Medalist, 2x World Cup Medalist, 2x Euroleague Champion. R.I.P Greatest shooter Europe ever had.
divac WAS his friend..
Mozart!
Drazen number one
I believe drazen and galis where with no doubt the best Players in Europe in this time.
Personal i am and live in greece,i say best europe player for me is drazen,because he born raise learn and dominat the game in europe,galis is a usa made player,he came in greece in age 24 i think abd the year behind he became 3 ncaa top scorer 27,7 points per game, yes maby better from drazen ,but believe me if galis boen and rise and play from start in greece they never never never be the player we all know
@@tolistolis8277 tolis you are right but Drazen never played that long as Galis. Drazen himself if Galis is the Devil i am the Devils Son. So in generell Yugoslavia had really good Playera with no Doubt.
Život leti kapetane ... :'(
Hadn't his girlfriend Klara gone far too fast on that rainy day, she would have been able to avoid crashing into a lorry that was blocking the motorway.
A female basketball player from Turkey was also badly injured and her life ruined. But Klara simply said she can not remember anything and later married Getman soccer functionary Oliver Bierhoff.
suddenly all reports about this accident state that a lorry crashed into them and killed him. This is s blatant lie, paid by Bierhoff and his DFB cronies. She never apologized to his family either.
Gotta add Oscar Schmidt to that list too...
im not over it
Najveći ikada!!
Well deserve
Best shooter ever
Bravo Aco
Petrovic and Galis. European Basketball's foundations..Without those two, there is no Diamantidis, Spanoulis, Divac, Kukoc, Papaloukas, Kirilenko....and certainly no Gasols, Parker, and Antetokounmpo.
Dražen, Stojko Vrankovič, Toni Kukoč, Dino Rađa, -European poker of aces-
Drazen il diavolo di sebenico the best
One of the best YUGOSLAV basketball players ever.
tako je
Croatian. Thanks for playing
A true Yugoslav born from a Serbian father and a Croatian mother...RIP Drazen...
@@AnteDrago6 His father was Serbian and his mother was Croatian. I am certain you know this my friend. I understand and respect that he chose to represent Croatia but in truth he was ....Yugoslavian.
Never heard Jordan say anything publicly about Drazen
Drazen was taller than me I'm 6 foot 4 on a good day. He was 6 foot 6 and he was a great player
They had him listed at 6"5"
100% true :/ too bad he went so early :'(
jedan jedini, naš Kapetan
Eastern European people are different it has a lot to do with the history of the Berlin Wall. I learned about Eastern Europe in High School
i can see that...although steph is a bit smaller and more athletic...but if were shooting i totally agree.
Im here 7 years later to tell you steph is amazing
why would he do that?!
Dražen je vodio Gorana Ivaniševića do Wimbledona 2001. To je mogao samo preko Dražena. ❤🤍💙
modern day version would probably be steph
No double kiss for eithe petrovic. the americans dont get it sometimes.
Falis Drazene...
ps: Damn, is there Boris Jelzin (5:12) in the audiance;-)?!?
Looks like him a bit, but no...
I will watch some tape of him r rondo but ive watched hundreds of games since 1970,have you, and my comments werent as moronic as your last one was.
and asister....
i don't understand why he is a silver in 2k14
Maybe for you
I wonder who will speak for Kobe for his Hall of Fame.
Jerry West, imo. He brought Kob to LA and Kob lived with West his first year in the league. They were always very close.
22.10.1964.Šibenik croatia22?10.202yesr 7.6?1993-2020 zivoteti kapetane svoju si dobrotu istavija svima Šibeniku svome zlato sa baldekina
I m from Croatia DRAZEN PETROVIC R.I.P PULA CROATIA.
Sramota da je vise stranaca pogledalo ovu stanicu nego yugoslavena. Svi smo mi ista govna jeli
Nisi ti nikakav Htvat,vec dotepenac iz Srbije u hrvatsku Istru...Tako da mi nemamo Jugoslavene vise, NA SRECU!!!!
Dražen nije bio "jugoslaven" nego HRVAT. A Hrvati su pogledali sve što je trebalo pogledati o Draženu. A vi "jugoslaveni", nas NE zanimate. Ti, nekako sumnjam da si iz Hrvatske. Prije če biti da si dotepenac iz neke srpske vukojebine, koji sad kad se dočepao civilizacije, sa ponoson ističe da je iz Hrvatske. Ti sa Hrvatskom imaš veze kao i ja sa Tajlandom.
Site togash bea yugosloveni one team one flag thats the trurh
Ok basketball hall,thanks for pointing that out.He didnt play in the nba too long i guess.because of his untimely death.Or did he?
manny4552 because of his europe accomplishes, it isn't only nba hall of fame it's basketball hall of fame in general : europe+college+nba
rights and priveliges ????
He was a fine player certainly,but i dont recall him being a hall of fame caliber top 50 or 100 player alltime?Ill have to watch him on fim to refresh myself on his game?
Well, I wouldn't agree that it's "not even close". Toni K. was such a magician in his own right, plus a far more versatile player than Petro who was basically a killa bazooka. If I had the power to have them BOTH on a team that's exactly what I would do. Plus Radja and Divac in the front court. The fifth slot could be filled by Djordjevic or Danilovic. And there's your World Champion team from 1990 Argentina! Easy!
Please, without Serbian players....Drazen would not like it, as us Coat too...
Sanya Sanada Like it or not, that was the Team that took it all, end of the 80s/early 90s. Croats, Serbs, Slovenians etc.
Nisu imali prijateljski odnos prije njegove smrti,zasto bi ga spominja?
Ako misliš na Divca onda totalno grešiš..pa Draženova majka Biserka je nekoliko puta objasnila da jesu i obrazložila..
Aco i Biserka, oboje imaju tremu da se nožem može rezati. Ali Aco je ( uz oskudan Engleski), ipak to sasvim pristojno odradio,(pročitao). Puno bolje se držao na bini nego Biserka.
Nije to toliko oskudan engleski koliko ga lošim naglaskom ukvari (cjelu sliku). Fond riječi ok, naglasak kriminalan. Nisam stilist, ali znam da se Biserka ovdje nije trebala odjenuti kao djevojka nego dama svojih godina. Jole se bar ovdje mogao pojaviti, ma da i ništa ne kaže, uvjek bi 'gurnuo' ženu. Ionako ga je ukadriralo u publici skupa s Acom i Biserkom. A ovaj Willis Reed, stvarno sjajan čovjek.
You are so misery!
jedini razlog zasto je uso u hall of fame je ZATO sto je poginuo mlad - mozda bi usao za koju godinu da nije poginuo ALI MOZDA , ali jbga on nema nista od toga ( kad si mrtav dzabe sve titule lol )
hijena ??? Jel tebi dobro
hijena ??? Imo je procenat trice od 50% prosjek pts 28 msm bio u top 5 NBA igraca 112 poena u jednoj tekmi zna se za njega od juga do sjevera citav svijet prosjek u europi 40 poena osvojio je u europi sve sta se moze treniro je po 9 sati dnevno jednom su mu nokti sa noga otpali koliko je treniro jarane SUTI !!!
ok ali NEMA TITULU niti prsten + prekratko je bio u nba --- ja ne kazem da ne bi uso u hal of fame ( usput toni je bio TROFEJNIJI od njega )
tako da sta reci za tonija kukoca LEGENDU koji je politicare otero u kurac i nikad mu to nisu oprostili u hrvatskoj
Nije samo nba, mirko novosel je isto u hall of fame a nikad nie trenirao nba klub, hall of fame je za sve rezultate u kosarci,npr ima nekih amerikanaca sta nisu bili dobri u nba al su usli unutra zbog uspjeha u collegu...
It was tragic that he died,but he was not a hall of famer?
manny4552 The Hall Of Fame is not just for the nba, it’s for basketball. His career overseas was enough for him to get in the hall of fame.
Doesn't deserve it
Yeah he did