Drazen - The Years of the Dragon
Author | : Vlado Radicevic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2017-10-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789535974116 |
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The most recent Croatian book about the basketball legend Drazen Petrovic with thorough insight into his celebrated international career on the both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. An in-depth career retrospective of the 'European Michael Jordan' with numerous untold details, unseen photos, and stories, both on and off court, with countless testimonies from basketball legends from all over the world. In Europe, he was known as the 'Mozart of Basketball' with dreams of coming to America and playing in the NBA. The NBA transformed 'Europe's best of the best' ingeniously - by letting the game come to him, the 'Dragon' turned into one of the most propulsive and precise shooting guards in the NBA and the first European to be considered a 'franchise player'. After Larry Bird's retirement in the fall of 1992, it was Drazen who turned into the brightest Caucasian star of the League, fighting each night to achieve his childhood dream, playing at the NBA All-Star game and thus paving the way for all Europeans. Wherever he would play, it would seem that basketball had arrived in town - the game would travel with him, making him one of the greatest ambassadors in the history of the game, with his influence stretching all over the globe. Although it's been almost a quarter of a century since his sudden, tragic death, his basketball star is still shining with the same brightness and is frequently remembered by legendary shooters such as Reggie Miller, Dale Ellis, and Stephen Curry, to name a few. With one of the most distinct non-American basketball books ever, the Croatian authors set an irreplaceable reference point for all future artistic works about the legendary Captain.