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- June 21, 1993: Died:Drazen Petrovic
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 21, 1993 Sex for Sale
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> DIED. DRAZEN PETROVIC, 28, basketball star; from injuries received
- in an auto accident; in Ingolstadt, Germany. The simple statistics
- of sport would seem to give Petrovic his own bit of immortality--this past season, the Croatian-born shooting guard was the
- top scorer for the New Jersey Nets and the National Basketball
- Association's 11th leading scorer. He became a national hero
- back home as the leader of the Croatian basketball team that
- won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympics last year. Yet
- upon the occasion of his cruelly premature death last week,
- when a car in which he was riding slammed into a truck on a
- slick German highway, it was his charming stick-to-it-iveness
- that was most remembered. "I saw a lionhearted player," Nets
- executive vice president Willis Reed recalled last week. "Petro
- came from a small country, but he worked to play basketball
- at the level of Americans." Ten thousand admirers gathered at
- his funeral in Zagreb last week.
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