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}} Dražen Petrović (; October 22, 1964 – June 7, 1993) was a Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the U.S.A. in 1989. A star on multiple stages, Petrović earned two silver medals and one bronze in Olympic summer basketball, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA World Cup, and a gold and a bronze in the FIBA EuroBasket. He represented Yugoslavia and, later, Croatia. He earned four Euroscar Awards, and was named Mr. Europa twice. In 1985, he received the Golden Badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia. Seeking a bigger arena after his career start in Europe, Petrović joined the NBA in 1989 as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers. After playing mostly off the bench that year, Petrović experienced a breakthrough following a trade to the New Jersey Nets. While starting for the Nets, he became one of the league's best shooting guards and was in consideration for being the best shooter ever. Petrović's career and life was cut short after he died in a car accident at the age of 28.〔SI.com ( The tragic death of Drazen Petrovic )〕 Petrović is considered the crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA.〔Stephen Rodrick, (Spirit of the Game ), ''ESPN The Magazine'', August 8, 2005〕 Petrović's #3 was retired by the Nets in 1993, and in 2002 he was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.〔NBA.com, (Drazen Petrovic )〕 In 2013, he was voted the Best European Basketballer in History by players at the 2013 FIBA EuroBasket.〔CroatiaWeek.com (The Best European Basketballer Ever )〕 ==Early years== Born in Šibenik, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia, Dražen Petrović was the second child of Jovan "Jole", a police officer, and Biserka, a librarian. His father, of Serb ethnicity, was born in Zagora, near Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/events/1996/olympics/storyolympic/yuhoops2.html )〕 His mother was born in Bilica, near Šibenik, and was from a traditional conservative Croat family, devoutly Roman Catholic.〔 The couple's eldest child, Aleksandar, would be the first one to tread the basketball path, providing a lead for his younger sibling. The Petrović siblings are second cousins to the Serbian basketball player Dejan Bodiroga.〔Press Online, (BODIROGE SPALE NA JEDNO SLOVO ): Nekoliko kilometara od Bodiroga nalazi se selo Zagora u kojem je rođen otac proslavljenih košarkaša Dražena i Aleksandra Petrovića. Momčilo Bodiroga tvrdi da su Bodiroge i Petrovići u srodstvu i da je Dejan Bodiroga zapravo rođak pokojnom Draženu i Aci Petroviću. "Iako je Hrvatska u potpunosti 'prisvojila' ovu dvojicu košarkaša, zna se da je njihov otac po rođenju Srbin, a majka im je Hrvatica" - kaže Bodiroga.〕〔(Dejan Bodiroga Official Site ): "Legendarni košarkaš Dražen Petrović, prvo reprezentativac Jugoslavije pa zatim Hrvatske, bio je rođak Dejana Bodiroge. Naime, Dejanova baba po ocu i Draženov deda po ocu jesu rođeni brat i sestra. Dražen, čiji je rođeni brat košarkaški trener Aleksandar Petrović (takođe bio reprezentativac Jugoslavije), poginuo je u saobraćajnoj nesreći u Nemačkoj 1993. Uvršten je u Najsmitovu Kuću slavnih u Springfildu."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dražen Petrović」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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