Before his untimely death, Dražen Petrović was probably the best offensive player in the world outside the NBA. But no one was certain it would work. rustindodd on the foreign star who came of age outside of American college basketball.
and No. 21 Dirk Nowitzki) who did not play in college first. It’s possible that Petrović would have been on this list, too, had he not died in a car crash in 1993, just as his career was taking off.How did the NBA go global? College basketball deserves an assist. It wasn’t until the late 1970s and early ’80s, when college coaches started mining talent overseas, that everything started to change. Guy Lewis found Hakeem Olajuwon in Nigeria and brought him to the University of Houston.
took a chance on a big man from Bulgaria named Georgi Glouchkov, the “Balkan Banger” as he was known. It didn’t work out — Glouchkov was amiable if not that athletic — but perhaps the experiment planted a seed. There was talent elsewhere; scouts just had to search. Of course, there were still doubters. Future NBA coach Mike D’Antoni competed against him in Europe, held him to an off night and then pondered how he’d do against the best players in the world. Phelps, who had lost a top recruit, believed PetrovićThere were questions about his defense and his John McEnroe demeanor. Perhaps the questions were valid. Maybe the skepticism was fair.
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