John Brennan of The Bergen Record recalled how Daly looked and acted that morning. “Drazen was a large part in completing that Nets team,” Lewis said.
Aleksandar Petrovic, Drazen’s older brother, described the impact his death … “I know that a lasting part of his athletic legacy will be that he paved the way for other international players to compete successfully in the NBA. Edebal would have jumped out of a window. "It was tough enough for me. Now a day doesn't go by without her feeling as if something's missing. Special culture and family feeling. She did not reveal her injuries. No matter where I went, my parents had to drive me there and back." This was a guy that was kept on the bench in Portland, he was not going to get those opportunities with Clyde [Drexler] there, but to come over to New Jersey and averse 20 and almost 45 percent shooting from deep, he was a perfect foil for those guys.
She frequently finds herself between jobs, yearning for the life she enjoyed before the brain damage. I guess I can be happy I survived and I can walk and I didn't lose my ability to speak." Long ago, at age 23, she gave up all thoughts of a basketball career. You couldn’t get any better. Edebal doesn't know now if the accident was ever brought up in conversation.
The following morning, Tuesday, June 8, the New Jersey Following Reed, Chuck Daly, the Nets head coach, faced the media. Dražen Petrović (Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒen pětroʋitɕ]; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. It was his first postseason award in the NBA, unveiled just eight days before his death - with many more presumed to follow. "I'm not old enough to retire." Concentration alone can't cure her mental lapses. Hours following the fatal crash, the Croatian national team received the news of their captain being killed in a car accident.
He sort of had the pale look of somebody who had been hit so hard in the stomach, and the wind was knocked out of him.” At the press conference, the Nets head coach spoke about Petrovic’s aggressive and play hard attitude when they played the 1992 “Dream Team” at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Traffic Collision. I haven't seen her in a long time." She will remember inconsequential people and things, then forget the most important.
“This reminds you of how precious life is,” Daly told reporters. This is obviously long before a Porzingis or a Parker and it is before Dirk. “You look and you say ‘alright, this team has a nice young tandem in Derrick [Coleman] and Kenny [Anderson] but when you looked for the shooting, he went a long way to becoming a perfect compliment for those guys. In his final season with the Nets and in the NBA, he led the Nets to another playoff appearance with a 43-39 record, playing in 70 games and starting 67 of them.