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Dražen Petrović

1964 - 1993

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Dražen Petrović (Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒen pětroʋitɕ]; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madrid before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989. A star on multiple international basketball stages, Petrović earned two silver medals (1988, 1992) and one bronze (1984) at the Summer Olympic Games, a gold (1990) and a bronze (1986) at the FIBA World Cup, and a gold (1989) and a bronze (1987) at the FIBA EuroBasket. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dražen Petrović has received more than 3,810,671 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Dražen Petrović is the 16th most popular basketball player (down from 13th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Dražen Petrović ranks 16 out of 1,268. Before him are Clyde Drexler, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, LeBron James, Scottie Pippen, and Julius Erving. After him are Radivoj Korać, Karl Malone, Krešimir Ćosić, Arvydas Sabonis, Uljana Semjonova, and Bob Cousy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Dražen Petrović ranks 55. Before him are Ernesto Valverde, Miguel Induráin, Robert Trujillo, Uday Hussein, Teri Hatcher, and Djimon Hounsou. After him are Bridget Fonda, Matt Dillon, Salvatore Schillaci, Gianluca Vialli, Don Cheadle, and Tracy Chapman. Among people deceased in 1993, Dražen Petrović ranks 62. Before him are Matthew Ridgway, Meliton Kantaria, Ishirō Honda, Rahmon Nabiyev, György Sárosi, and Kenneth E. Boulding. After him are Tofiq Bahramov, Hervé Villechaize, C. Northcote Parkinson, Luciano Leggio, Myrna Loy, and Yen Chia-kan.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Dražen Petrović ranks 70 out of 589. Before him are Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (1897), Branko Zebec (1929), Stjepan Filipović (1916), Fausto Veranzio (1551), Zlatko Čajkovski (1923), and Dubravka Ugrešić (1949). After him are Petar Zrinski (1621), Zvonimir Boban (1968), Marin Držić (1508), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Vladko Maček (1879), and Francesco Laurana (1430).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Croatia

Among basketball players born in Croatia, Dražen Petrović ranks 1. After him are Krešimir Ćosić (1948), Toni Kukoč (1968), Dino Rađa (1967), Vinko Jelovac (1948), Petar Skansi (1943), Velimir Perasović (1965), Aleksandar Petrović (1959), Stojko Vranković (1964), Žan Tabak (1970), Željko Jerkov (1953), and Andro Knego (1956).

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