How Dražen Petrović Sparked the NBA's Euro Revolution 

Svašta smo prežalili kao narod, ali Dražena nismo i nikada nećemo. Život leti Kapetane...

I grew up in Portland and was sad to hear when Drazen died. Man, the Blazers always got rid of good players and he was one of them. We passed on Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, everyone leaves and gets to the Finals. Drazen ate the league up with the Nets. Man we lost a legend.

Drazen Petrovic scored 44 points on Michael Jordan & scored more points than anyone on the Dream Team in 92 Finals

That hit me when he said “Everyone remembers where they were when hearing about Drazen”. I do too. I was 12 and watching the morning SportsCenter.

This series the best thing Vice has ever put together.

i met Dražens mother in his museum, it was a school trip in 7th grade. she is a great and strong person.

The crazy thing is over 90 percent of people in Croatia play soccer.

I fell in love with football watching the gr8 98 Croatian team with suker. I hope they can do even better with the Croatian basketball team too & give more players to the nba. Love from nepal 🇳🇵

I remember Drazen very well in the NBA and this guy was a beast he could shoot from anywhere and was a fantastic player to watch

4:36 Dario's mom: ''he learnt how to bully his opponents from me and the jam shot from his father'' LOL!!!

Dražen Petrović was born in my city, beautiful Šibenik. Toni Kukoč 70 km away from Split 🇭🇷🌞

To put Dario Saric in the same movie with Drazen Petrovic is outrageous

Drazen petrovic is a legend for Europe basket and nba drazen forever

Mi eterno jugador favorito... En la época de Jordan ,los juegos de Petro me emocionaban más... En las olimpiadas llegué a pensar que Croatia vencerá a USA. Drazen fue parte de mi infancia. Love n respect 🇵🇷

I was 9 when Drazen passed and I was really sad and cried. I thought he was a great player (still do). He would do whatever it took to win and he'd shoot the lights out.

I've seen him play, when he played for the New Jersey Nets. He's a great all around team player.

i remmember day when Drazen die in car accident. i was kid 13y old , but never feel so stress like that day. Drazen was a good, nice , golden kid. all CROATIA CRY DAY HE PAST I REMEMBER and newer forget. R.I.P. Dražen

Petro's awesome. My favorite European player of all time.

The GREATEST! I don’t wanna watch this cause i know this is gonna make me shed a tear

Croatia, Spain, France, Slovenia, Turkey, Serbia, Russia, Greece...all countries with great basketball players and teams. Americans should show some respect to the Euroleague

Young people cannot understand how good Drazen was. Best shooter in the world in his prime

DRAŽEN,najveći ikada!!

awesome video... drazen was legendary i remeber discovering him about 12 years ago... too bad his life end tragically .. wonder how many 3s he wouldve had... also did u see how that tough man willis reed broke down ?? that was so real .. heartfelt.. very sad but cool to show u what he meant to that team

To talk of your dead child takes a lot of heart. No parent ever wants to live longer than their kids.

Drazen je uvijek inspiracija! Drazens life is inspitation!

Very interesting history!

Man im really loving this series

Imagine an all Yugo Olympic team. Doncic, Jokic, Bogdonovic, nurkic, Saric, teodosic and I’m leaving out so many more...

Great player! As a young Cavs fan, it always seemed like Dražen Petrović played harder against Cleveland in the early 90s. In fact, three Cavaliers (Brad Daugherty, Mark Price, and Larry Nance) took up roster spots in the NBA All-Star Game in 1993 and coaches left out Petrović. It seemed like he resented that.

Dario Saric is good don't get me wrong but you can't compare him to Petrovic.. Drazen was on another level

Pocivaj u miru ❤️❤️❤️such a legend of his time we miss you down here!! Made Croatians so proud❤

Lithuania is another small European country that's a bball powerhouse.

Drazen, the first great European player. He was a very tough cover for Jordan back in the day. #RIP🙏🏾

Drazen was so cool and chill,my cousin played on the Nets w/him.RIP!!

I grew up in that blue skyscraper where Drazen used to play basketball. As kids, we were shooting hoops all day everyday!

I was blessed to see him play many times, I was at the game 3 against the cavs, the place was electric!

Very Good Doc.. Learned allot bout them BOYS.. RIP DRAZEN

Without him then basketball will never be popular in Europe right now. Thank you Petrovic & we'll really miss you. Too sad your life was cut short due to a car accident, if he didn't died then he'll become a legit NBA Superstar around the 90s & early 2000s & might get a chip or two before he'll retire & inducted to the HOF.

Mocart košarke počivaj u miru legendo🏀

One thing is forsure, the second Petrovic entered the league he was to become a legend.

this video was so beautiful!! 😭 i love sport

European players are good enough.They can play all positions, have great fundamentals and can shoot. They just need the right system and playing time.

When they said Saric was carrying the torch from Petro I'm almost stopped watching. The only thing they have in common is being from the same country.

What I love most about team sports especially, football and basketball is how it transcends race..u make people of different color brothers for life..I hope basketball returns

I loved the series, Vice Sports. Do hope there is a season two of this because, as happy as I was that it covered Croatia, I was sad that Lithuania was not mentioned.

He was extra chilly most from coast II coast!! RIP

i love this series keep it coming!!!

Quality content , great video!

Drazen's city is Sibenik. Šibenik is an old Croatian royal town from at least 9 centuries, with 2 National Parks (Krka and Kornati) and about a hundred islands. Šibenik is the first city in Europe to receive electric lighting, and the second in the world 🌞 🇭🇷

I love this series...I hope you guys have one on Australia in the works, considering that we too are a small country... and have little competition close geographically to play against, yet we have ten players in the league including the reigning ROTY...

Dont let em fool you dario saric is a solid stretch big with unfilled potential

Drazen Petrovic was the best shooter ever !!! R.i.P

It broke my heart seeing Vlade visiting Dražen's grave in that 30 for 30 documentary.

Amazing job VICE sports on this over-seas basketball piece

thank you vice ❤

Nazalost nema kapetana i najboli igrac svih vremena

Great Video !

Talent makes up only 1% and all the rest work work work , ahh drazen you make me motivated you're truly a LEGEND not for croatians but to those people who really work hard to achieve their goals 🙏

Dražen really was like a damn pop star here in Croatia, Yugoslavia back then. His popularity exceeded WAAAAY out of normal athletes. Way out. Actually beside him, I know only one another athlete that was that loved all over Yugoslavia, and thats also late boxer Mate Parlov. Perhaps, only perhaps, football player Dragan Piksi Stojković was close also. But than again, the mere fact that he came from football says he wasnt loved that much and without any hesitation across whole country. Since football is really something different here, something that brings an ocean of emotions, so, him playing for Red Star is just too big of an obstacle to be loved by the supporters of Hajduk, Partizan, Dinamo etc. Dražen Petrović and Mate Parlov, (Dražen being more popular) were only two guys loved all across Yugoslavia. I was 13 when Dražen died, and I, as a kid that young, on top of that one who didnt liked basketball that much, remember also exactly where I was and all that sorrow, shock, and unbelievement all over the country. Life flies by captain, rest in peace

dragin was a genius basketball player... tough as nails too.

Drazen wasn't just a player that changed NBA forever, he was the player who after only two years of playing set some NBA records and made greatest NBA superstars sweat when play against him. USA arrogantly takes the position of the world in basketball but out of the USA it was Drazen Petrovic who was the world before MJ. Everybody wanted to play basketball because of him. Today kids don't know that.

niko ne priča za Bojana Bogdanovića , ja mislim da je on najbolji Hrvat trenutno u NBA ligi

It's hard to be better than Petro

Mozzart of basketball

They should do a story for Basketball in the Philippines since we have an NBA pro in Jordan Clarkson representing the Philippine National Team. I think basketball is a way of life in the Philippines.

Dope narrating job from 12y

this one is fantastic

Miss Dario in Philly :(

I love this guy he dropped 31 on Jordan

The way Drazen is portrayed in his home country is just like MJ is in USA. No wonder why Jordan loved going against him and also hated to go against too.

Before he died at 28 I already had him the 3rd best SG behind Jordan and Drexler. He played only 4 NBA seasons, he was that good.

VICE Sports pozdrav dali možda imate kakvih rijetkih videozapisa od stare ex yu košarke od šibenke

15:48 Didn't know his dad Jack BLack

How great was drazen??? Imagine 17 year old lebron that is playing for cleveland in the finals of nba against celtics or lakers and he has 2 free throws in the last second..the score is +1 for celtics...he needs to score both to win the championship. Would he make it? Would todays lebron make it under such pressure. Well 17 year old drazen made those free throws. That was just the begining of his legend In todays game drazen would avarage 40 points no problem.

Real hoop fans know ab Drazen, he was going to be a legend!! Absolute bucket

Dario is good but not Drazen good!!!

It's narrated by asap twelvyy

Greatness...

On je bio najveci ko letici avon voleo sam njegov stil i njegove trice

Perfect timing for the start of the season 76rs vs Celtics tonight!!

do not forget that greatest basketball club in the history of the sport is from Croatia!

you can see Drazen in the image of LUCA DONCIC in today's NBA

Every Croatian and Serb I know is a gamer, hardest working athletes and business people on the planet. Maybe they survived years of losing family to ethnic murders, maybe we should live a little differently in the US

PG:Dražen SG:Divac SF:Kukoč PF:Šarić C:Rađa

I love this documentary, so well made and such a great story. Drazen Petrovic is a legend, not mythical, but a prominent and storied figure of Croatian basketball. I recommend also watching the documentary "Once Brothers" from the 30 for 30 ESPN series.

Imagine what would happen to global sports if the former Yugoslav republics were to play as one national team

The original Lucka Doncic

Great video about basketball in Croatia, just one thing you missed, no mention of Bojan Bogdanović, by far the best Croatian player of the 21st century (for sure better than Dario Šarić) and his playing style is much more similar to Dražen Petrović. Šarić is more of an all around type of player ( even though he is not elite in any of these categories he can rebound, he can pass, he can shoot and is a big hustler, he is kind of a glue guy for the team who can do a bit of everything and always gives 100%) while Bogdanović is a great scorer (just like Dražen was) and is a 3 point sniper (just like Dražen was).

Great video but the narrator needs to tone down the aggressive delivery. He is not in 'the hood' he is delivering a message.

Najveci

This is the future of basketball players and coaching, position-less.

not just in basketball, we are vice champions of the world in football too ( Russia 2018) ,so you have to love us ;)

Older generation of Croatian basketball players had commitment to give back something to nation. But newer generation, not so much. Yes, its nice thing to have many Croatian players in NBA, but that's nice only for them. It's blame and shame how national team played in last 20 years on each and every competition. Each player has own goals considering his career, don't give too much fuck about national team. And I'm not talking about playing for national team, I'm talking about effort while playing for national team.

Ja sam bio klinac kad je igrao car kosarke drazen

is this a re-upload? cuz i swear to God I watched this video like a couple of years ago.

as soon as he said dario saric was next up, i knew this whole video was cap

Saricu svaka cast imas uspjesnog sina , ali nemoj NIKADA ga stsvljat u istu recenicu sa drazenom jer ti se ljudi smiju. On je prosjecan igrac i ja ga volim ali budimo realni drazenu nemoze ni lopte skupljat

They just need play8ng time,same thing happend with Sarunas when they give him time he put good numbers,he would be better if they give him the time to play since he got to nba

I WISH YOU YOUNG GUYS COULD HAVE SEEN HIM.. EVEN JORDAN HAD HIS HANDS FULL WITH THIS CAT!

We Croatians are very talented #IznadSvihHrvatska