Drazen Petrovic: Legendary Footage of His 49 Points E-mail
Written by mookie   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:42

Before he went onto the NBA in 1989, Drazen Petrovic was a legendary player in Europe. A 6'5" shooting guard with awesome range as well as an ability to get to the basket, he was a tough scoring force to stop. Most basketball fans are aware of his tragic death on June 7, 1993 -- a car accident in Germany cut short one of the greatest European careers in NBA basketball that was just getting off its feet.

Here is footage of Petrovic in 1987/88 scoring 49 points for Cibona Zagreb against basketball powerhouse, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Just to give you a bit of extra information, the commentator is Dan Peterson, an American who relocated to Italy many years ago and who is considered something along the lines of Marv Albert crossed with Pat Riley in Italy. Thus, the Italian he is speaking here is not the fastest you'll find, but very good nonetheless.  He describes how Petrovic is the best player in Europe right now and how his 49 points is a record, or certainly the highest he had seen against Milanese teams.

Also check out: Oscar Schmidt vs Drazen Petrovic

Here is some bonus footage of Drazen (Portland Trail Blazers) in a jump-ball against Vlade Divac (Los Angeles Lakers) in 1990. You've got to love those short shorts!

Many thanks to crohoops.com for the youtube uploads.

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Love The Vintage
written by Jp14, March 10, 2010
I love vintage basketball footage and you guys found a gem in this one. There can't be too many of these tapes floating around! Nice find!
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written by mookie, March 10, 2010
Petro was a legend. It's a shame we lost him too early.
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written by Edu, March 11, 2010
Another legendary Petrovic performance was the final of the cup's winner cup, 62 points for him (playing with Real Madrid) against 44 points for brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt, playing with Caserta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkXkZZsPGw
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written by Marjan, March 12, 2010
Thank you for this article. Nice web site. These videos are rare. There will be some more rare videos available soon on www.youtube.com/crohoops.

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