Drazen clearly says in the short interview in hte middle of this video, ''Vlade is a good guy, it is not personal, it is politics''. He was probably afraid that some crazy guy can heart his father who lived in Croatia as a Serbian during the war if he continues his frendship with Vlade, especially after Vlade throwing away croatian flag in Argentina (we would done the same even with the serbian one). There is no much mistery about this story.
Drazen made a statement in 91. before the war that he will never play for any ''republic'' if Jugoslavia splits. That means he had 2 options. If he was a nationalist, he would never thought to go to Zvezda, as his brother said he would have done if Nakic did not score in the last seconds of the finals Cibona Zvezda. On the other hand Divac was never nationalist, so this video is more bs than the documentary. More closer to the truth would be, as Drazen clearly says in the short interview in hte middle of this video, ''Vlade is a good guy, it not personal, it is politics''. He was probably afraid that some crazy guy can heart his father if he continues his frendship with Vlade, especially after Vlade throwing away croatian flag in Argentina (we would done the same even with the serbian one).
Drazen Petrovic's mother is Serbian, and close relative to Bodiroga who is a Serb. Divac never claimed to a be a nationalist while Drazen more than overdid his nationalism, bordering to fascism. In fact, in spite of Serbian government opposition, Divac personally made Kosovo member of the Olympic community. That illustrates how much of a nationalist is Divac. In addition, Petrovic would in public beat and abuse his older brother Aleksandar Petrovic, who has dedicated his life to Drazen's career, who was Drazen's first coach. That illustrate what sort of person was Drazen Petrovic.
I mean, his father is serbian which makes him part serbian but it's not where he grew up so why do you expect him to have some strong ties to serbia? I mean, if he played for serbia with jokic, that'd be fucking awesome but you have to respect the man's upbringing which was in Slovenia.
Pa kakve to veze ima? Po tome onda Dirk Nowitzki nije Njemacki kosarkas nego Poljski valjda? Dirku je majka Nijemica a otac mu je Poljak, ali ocito Nijemci i Poljaci nisu retardirane dvi nacije poput Hrvata i Srba da se kolju oko toga ko je čiji košarkaš, jer je Dirku majka Nijemica, odrastao je u Njemackoj, sto bi trebao biti? Tako i Dražen, majka hrvatica, odrastao u Hrvatskoj, čak i kršten kao Katolik (Aco je kršten kao pravoslavac), i što bi on sad po tebi trebao biti? Ali daleko smo mi od Nijemaca i Poljaka glede razmisljanja, ali eto morao sam to spomenut, znači po tvome razmišljaju, ponavljam, Dirk Nowitzki je Poljak i nije Njemački košarkaš, tako ispada zar ne?
@@nathanielknight1838 My son is born in Italy and lives with me in Portugal, but feels as a Serbian. Luka is a Red Star/Crvena Zvezda fan and that tells you a lot about how he feels. His father was basketball player, so all this tells you how Luka might feel about life...
@@CroPETROforeverNBA ocigledno ne znas da Poljaci I Nemci se ne vole mnogo, na kraju dana, Srbija ima najboljeg kosarkasa na svetu, tako da, Slovenija moze zadrzati Luku, Hrvatska moze zadrzati Drazena, Izrael moze zadrzati Denija. Ja samo rekao, geni dosli dosli sa jedne strane, a to nije sa te u koji ljudi misle samo zato sto odrasli tu.
no, no, no! you don't fool me! Petrovic was very wrong and not coherent at all on this. And more important than personal dramas Petrovic and Divac were huge names in USA and they should have led in example by conciliating and stop the bloodshed in their once beautiful Yugoslavia, but Petrovic shut Divac his door. And in the end both stayed living comfortably in the USA and none of them volunteered for their respective armies...
