Drazen Petrovic: The Player Who Changed The NBA Forever 

Richard Le they have 5 guards at that time

Ciao Jay Drexler, Petrovic and Sabonis would have Dominated the 90's if they all joined in their prime

Coach fault, idk if Drazen was better than clyde but he was miles better than Porter and Kersey

Well Porter was a pg as Drazen was a sg. I don't think Drazen could have played pg in the NBA. But yeah Blazers could have tried Porter at pg, Drazen at sg and Drexler at sf.

+Zamppa86 Drazen was PG with Madrid and croatia national team, also he was only 6'5, he could played on both backcourt positions

Duckster Gaming couldn't have said it better. He truly was an elite scorer!! 🙏🏼⛹🏻 Drazen for 3!!

The Nets would have been so serious in the mid 90s, Drazen's death truly impacted the careers of Kenny Anderson and Derrick Coleman, as well as Chuck Daly. People forget that at this time Coleman considered himself in his own opinion to be a Top 10 player in the NBA. Once Drazen died, Chuck Daly got totally burned out and had to quit coaching the Nets. What could have been.... As a kid I always thought the 1993 Playoffs were one of the greatest of all time (Suns recover from 0-2 deficit vs Lakers, Mourning series winner over Celtics, Sonics/Jazz, Rockets/Clippers & Cavaliers/Nets all go the distance, Jordan series winner over Cavaliers, Sonics/Rockets Game 7, Suns/Sonics Game 7, Birth of "Go NY Go NY Go intro", Bulls recover from 0-2 deficit vs Knicks: Charles Smith blocked by Pippen in legendary sequence, Bulls/Suns legendary Finals: Paxson hits series winning 3 pointer) And then it transitioned into the saddest period it possibly could....McHale retires, Jordan's father is murdered, Petrovic is killed in auto accident, Reggie Lewis dies of cardiac arrest, Jordan retires, Laimbeer loses his desire to play....I was crushed as a kid. What a great and horrible time to be a basketball fan I will never forget after Drazen died, the NBA Jam arcade machines became haunted, the announcer would sometimes scream, "Petrovic!" for no reason, even if you weren't playing as the Nets. People used to say his ghost was in the game.

would have = would've there is no such thing as "would of"

Don't be ridiculous.

Slappy Slapstick how is that ridiculous

It's what made me a fan...he used to do MJ dick ball dirty...

The thing with Drazen is that he considered himself the Goat.i don"t say he was,but he used this strong mentality,combined with hard work to prove himself, in a very difficult era fot the european players!

@@giannismarkos2097 he is the greatest European player ever

That's how you had to approach MJ. He was telling him "I don't give a sh*t who you are." If you showed fear against Jordan, he already had you beat.

It was a curry-deep 3 too.

Facts

陳柏安 He did obviously

Nick Galis did . He was better than Drajen although the later was fantastic player.

@@kraftwerkVS I was thinking the same thing. Great players both and I was lucky to witness their duals.

@BOMBAATA Wilt Chamberlain 2K 20K Radivoj Korac, Kresimir Cosic, Dragan Kicanovic must be in front of Dragic. Jokic and Doncic can be in top10 best European player in end of his career.

@BOMBAATA Wilt Chamberlain 2K 20K Dirk super team? He beat a SUPER TEAM!!! His run is arguably the best run I. The history of the NBA. GTFO

plavijadranband1 Im from the USA and we love Drazen as well! Peace from The States

I ja san iz hrvatske

Drazen je Srbin

Kobe Bryant dumb ass

Cr0at1ansensatn 77 Drazen je Srbin. Bio je i bice. PETROVIC. Majka mu se ljubila 3 puta sa Dragicem u emisiji. Sibenik je Dalmacija a Dalmacija je Srbija!

nah. he said the best he played against

no, he said BEST EVER, not in this video, he said it more than once in some occasions

Well Ray Allen and in a couple years Steph Curry will have something to say about that best shooter ever title

I believe steph is the best shooter ever just because weve seen it longer. But if drazen actually played longer, he would probably have that title of best shooter. He'd wreck today's league just as how steph is doing it

they underestimate old school basketball!! if you can shoot while a player is hand checking you today they will call it a foul

And Drazen is Serbian also ...

And Michael Jordan is serbian also... Heh.. :/

apparently the Queen of England is Serbian as well.. hah but on a serious note Drazen Petrovic is a great Serbian name

@@istinomprotivlazi4764 pola srbin , pola italijan ...sta je sporno ????

@@staffcarpenborg father of Drazen is SERBIAN , do you have problem with that??? Why irony ?? I only said the truth !!!

because coaches in NBA are quite limited, and that hasn´t changed much.

Ok i am offended, where is Jokic?

Damn I'm surprised I missed him out my bad, Jokic is a great player too, he'll have one heck of a career

Daiton same haha, I love European basketball players

So where is Manu and Tony?

Qing Fei De Yi Manu is from Argentina

but to the juniors

He was 19, they were 17...

@@kali4036 Dont downplay that shit. 110pts in an official game regardless of tier is godly.

@@edwardjames6880 nah G you should see me with legs play in the special Olympics

112 in 40 minutes. 67 in first half (20 minutes) In a game where his team scored 158, and the other 77. And it was Euro league. Don't believe everyone on the other team was just 17.

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Lol Jordan is beter

IDontCare jordan won’t be jordan if len bias,petrovic and other superstar didn’t died

@@shaunibabe1 "Jordan of Europe" does not imply that he's better than Jordan. Idiot.

Šibenski Mocart, or 'The Mozart of Šibenik'

mr. tooth khan you’re too stupid for oxygen Kids like you know nothing about basketball

I don't think the NBA is softer, I be watching Doncic play every game on YT and he's getting hacked a lot and no calls against him. NBA is corrupt. If he gets the same gimmick calls that Harden gets, he averages 10 more points per game.

Nba needs hand checking back , now the defence on nba players looks like a joke

@@dominic4981 >>> I don't know what you're talking about, Dame Lillard my boy in Portland gets handchecked, nudged, bumpe, hacked and non goaltending calls. The NBA pays favorites. Dame a class act loyal to his team doesn't get favoravble calls and still lights up the league. Get a clue.

Euro players in the 80s and early 90s were soft by nba standards at that time. Different times

Nba is softer today, in the 80's and 90's things were the reverse of what they are now. Nba has changed the rules so much and has become soft.

Great history bro!!!

NBA was and now is even more scam... remember Sacramento, it's a joke watching now, sorry

I am working in the museum and can confirm that most of that story is fabricated. Drazen and Dell knew each other and that's it. Steph knows who Drazen is but he never met his mother at any point. We requested jersey from Steph through Drazens manager back in the day, Warren LaGerie, and he sent it to us. It's not NBA finals jersey but regular swingman jersey from souvenir shop. Great exhibit however...

No Curry is Petrovic from 2010

Great you mention that. I think people hardly know that

Gtfo nigga

Mark Šiško same

Isto 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

I ja

Rudi Bunoza he is also a very competitive guy. He really wants to win.

great 👍 i would never forget him...

nah I remembered, I said I'd make it before the end of the month haha

Andy Hoops Oh cool I didn't see that thanks

Jack Dawson hi

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Dr0pkidd nigga Giannis?

Leo_Cerberus Whatever nigga. You got my point.

Dr0pkidd no i dont because thats one of my favorite players so spell his name right

True dat

Dr0pkidd Giannis Antetokounmpo

in croatia we say that on the day he died, the basketball died. at least for us

Tonipp99 drazen legenda

Tonipp99 Dražen=Kosarkasi Mozart

Frajer je masakriro imena, palatale izignoriro i real je katastrofalno izgovaro kao englesku rijec... Video je inace top!

Finally a comment that says it all!!! Petro...for ever!!!

Love your comment it's so true..

Domagoj Valenčak зато му је отац Јован.

pa i spartanci su srbi...isus po majci bio srbin, zna se. još da se odlučiš za pismo jovane i super si XD

@@jovanjoso Najveći srpski sportaš Đoković je pola Hrvat. Živio :P

Thank you for allowing us in the States enjoy and love Drazen...he was my favorite player and an idol of mine growing up...

Mirko crop cop

Check..and you are right but 'best nba players ever' is a bit over the top, he would have a very nice career for the next few years, at maybe 22-26ppg, few all-star appearances, a solid play-offs contender, hardly a champion bc the Bulls those years, and that's it ...and that's ok with me, as an old croatian fan of Dražen

Funny Time So I just found out I’m Croatian, and I know this is a long shot, but is the last name “job,” popular there? That’s my mother’s maiden name, and it’s from Croatia.

@@jacobmoore8569 no

@@jacobmoore8569 Actually there are around 70 people living in Croatia with their family name "Job". Mostly from Lepoglava and Osijek. Cheers!

us fans know he how good he is, andy subs are all true nba fans im telling

I think Toni doesn't get enough credit for the 1998 championship. He played so well the last games of the Finals, Chicago would have been in major trouble without him. They probably could have won the series in 5 if they went to him more.

Kukoc was clutch in 98

Kukoc is the best 6th man in the history of the NBA. I dont think there is anyone else that good that accepted his role as a sixt man and played it to a perfection.

Kukoc was an awesome 6th man but I would not claim him to be the best. I think John 'Hando' Havlicek was better. Also I consider Ginobili a bit better and more versatile 6th man than Kukoc was.

Da te mogu pismom zvati 😉 Šibenka Šibenik

@@ilijagrubor6671 ajde nismo tolko brt XD mi smo bili puno puta u ligi i dobili

@@ilijagrubor6671 youre not the est in basketball.

@@ilijagrubor6671 no way, if you look at last 5 years its 1. USA 2. SPAIN 3. FRANCE 4. LITHUANIA 5. SERBIA what have you won in last 5 years? What medals have you gotten?

Nah, in football aka soccer, West Germany, Argentina, Brazil, USSR, Italy, Spain were better than Yugoslavia.

@@punchdreadnought8101 bro Yugoslavia was the same tier as those nations or even better. 1990 WC Yugoslavia beat Spain, tied both Argentina and Germany

Leon Wang thats Bullshit...KD Was the national player of the year in his first year at Texas University so idk what f%k you're talking bout

they have Drexler at that time. plus Bowie is a solid Center. too bad that his career was ruined by injuries same as Oden

You feel like you can talk with hindsight, right?

Ciao Jay Sam Bowie is not even a hall a famer so he wasn't that solid enough to choose him over mj

americanfresh17 this is what we call hindsight. It was the right choice at the time. The blazers honestly just got shitty luck.

WormChemistry huertas is from brasil, south america

Juan M Yes. I'm talking about players who are under FIBA Europe which brasil is.

I would guess European players could make to the league by The age of 30 because most of them work harder then American players who have higher chances

Huertas is super trash by the way

BallinBoxer brazil is under fiba but fiba americas

OS Mak Dizdar Zenica no one cares

@@user-io4ue1zg2o i care ;)

Matthew you suck

fei li drazen was probably the better shooter but bird was clearly the better all round player. drazen was a shooting machine. bird could be whatever the celtics needed (except athletic). few players had the ability to impose their will so dominantly that the league seemingly bent to their whims ( jordan, magic, bird). i dont think drazen was that guy. maybe he didnt get enough of a chance

@@furryhoof1865 He was that guy. He just died early. Before I was wondering why his rating in 2k is too high, im like "hus ds petrovic guy", then I played using him and god damn, this guy can shoot greens almost all the time, with or without defense. Now that I watched him in youtube and saw what he did to Mike? This guy is nuts and has that alpha aura in him. He hated the bench coz he felt he doesnt belong there lol.

He was geat but not Bird level

Ej brate Srbine.Osvojili su jos jednu(i poslednju) 95 u Atini kada su pobegli sa postolja i sebi nabili prokletstvo koje ce jedino moci skinuti sa sebe ako javno priznaju glupost i zamole za oprost ;)

@@majak.t.135 situacija u našoj košarci je poput vaše u nogometu,odlični smo u mlađim kategorijama a poslje se pogube u prijevodu i ne djeluju kao ekipa nego hrpa ega na okupu.

True! LOL

"Watching the guy that he benched average 23 the next season changed rick adelman" ... that's gotta hurt!!

"Watching the guy that he benched average 23 the next season changed rick adelman" Blazers sure could have used Drazen in 1990 1991 & 1992 !!

Igor Svačić eh it wasn’t

@@Caraxes_RoguePrince acctualy it was believe that💯

It would be nice if someone could upload Šibenka games from that time so that everyone can see how was it. I think that competition in basketball,handball,waterpolo in then Yugoslavia was really brutal, mainly because of fanatical supporters,add a high quality and you get fantastic matches to watch and enjoy. This was the only time and place where we showed what can happen when we combine hard work with talent and passion. All the failures of our new countries are due to our lack of abillity to create an enviroment for talented and hard working people to thrive. Sport was the only thing where that ever happened and it was used as cover up for all our other failures. Maybe it'll change. I hope it does.

East is not weak, its just that West is better