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    That night in Meadowlands Drazen scored 35 points (12-18 from the field, 4-5 threes) in 53 minutes and led all scorers in a New Jerseys Nets overtime win vs Seattle team led by Payton & Kemp.    

    Drazen and Reggie went head-to-head 13 times during Drazen’s 4 season long NBA career.   Petro’s teams (Blazers, Nets) won 7 of those games while he averaged 17 points in 28.5 minutes, shooting 49.1% from the field and 40.9% for three.   Reggie’s Pacers won 6 games with Reggie scoring 21.3 points in [...]

G/F Bojan Bogdanovic (photo by Cibona.com)   After the Nets used a series of draft day swaps and landed Croatian swingman Bojan Bogdanovic (6’7”/1989) ESPN analyst Chad Ford labelled the move as “a steal for the Nets, perhaps one of the biggest steals of the (Draft) night.”   Brandon Putre/Bleacherreport.com wrote that “The ever sneaky [...]

Danko Cvjeticanin, Nets’ European scouting coordinator   New Jersey Nets’ European scouting coordinator Danko Cvjeticanin released the following exclusive statement regarding the series of draft day trades which made Croatian swingman Bojan Bogdanovic (6’7”/1989) potential future member of the New Jersey Nets organization.   “From the begining of the Draft Bogdanovic was our choice together [...]

  Drazen played some of his most inspired ball against NBA elite teams such as Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, which were all able to repeat or even threepeat NBA Champion titles during late 1980ties and early 1990ties.   Matched against Michael Jordan, who was one of the top defensive players of [...]

    Although his vertical leap was measured just above 2 feet at the beginning of the 1990ties, legendary Croatian shooting guard Drazen Petrovic was capable of dunking of ball.   Thanks to CroPETROforever newly posted youtube video it is now clear that Drazen not only possessed the ability to dunk the ball in the [...]

  Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Kidd discusses Drazen Petrovic’s New Jersey legacy after the Mavs’ 106-100 win over the Clippers Wednesday night in Los Angeles.   Petrovic played for the Nets from 1991-1993, before being killed in a tragic German car accident in the summer of ’93. Kidd played seven seasons in New Jersey and [...]