It was reported by multiple news outlets Wednesday that 2014-15 NBA MVP and NBA champion, Steph Curry, had sent one of his Finals jerseys to Biserka Petrović, the mother of late, great Croatian basketball player Dražen Petrović.
“In 1992, Stephen Curry‘s father Dell took part in the three-point contest during All-Star weekend in Orlando. Dell didn’t make it out of the first round of the contest, only scoring 11 points but when he was competing, the mother of the late Dražen Petrović took care of Steph.
Curry has never forgot about this moment and is sending one of his game-worn jerseys from the NBA Finals to Petrović’s mom. The jersey will be on display at the Dražen Petović Memorial Center which is located in the Croatian capital of Zagreb.”
CroatianSports.com was at Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, California but it was near impossible to get within 10 feet of NBA MVP Steph Curry. It will be our mission in the upcoming season to chat with Curry and get the full story on his relationship with the Petrović family.
I guess not……that is why I let you do the typing. Thanks for confirming.
“ziva istina”: “I’m sure the percentage of US-born is higher because there is more of them.”
You just can not stop reinforcing to everybody that you’re a moron, can you?
“ziva istina”: “It’s not a free speech issue, you need to learn to OBEY.”
You just can not stop reinforcing to everybody that you’re a toady-coward, can you?
Great move for Hezonja. No state income tax in Florida.
Hezonja goes #5 to Orlando.
Good for him.
majstore, exactly. I remember growing up before the Internet, we had to wait for VHS tapes to be mailed over to us with the games on them, especially Cibona in the mid to late 80s. I don’t remember ever cheering for jugo back in the day.
The only memory I have of cheering with Yuga involved is cheering against them in every possible scenario.
If we want a regional league, why does it have to be with Serbia? Why can’t it be a country like Austria?
The Serbian league is flat out awful. Teams like NK Lokomotiva and RNK Split would probably finish runners up if they were in that league.
If there is a regional league, I would only look to join with better leagues that will bring us up, not down.
Were on the roster. Your explanation of rooting for yugo in bjezigrad explains it all.
Copa America doesn’t work like that. Here is no qualifying because they only have ten teams and two nations are invited.
I disagree that it was ok to root for yugo even if hrvati
The other thing I would like to see changed is to eliminate the qualifying for the European championships. Invite the minnows a few weeks early to battle it out to join the top teams.
Just like the Copa America does it.
Then, you could save an entire year of bullshit qualifying games (especially now with 24 teams being invited) which would allow you to have the World Cup every 3 years instead of 4.
@ Bobby V
You bring up a one decent point. While not in favor of a Jugo liga, I think Champions League/Europa League should be split between West and East. Teams from the East flat out can not hang with your Reals, Bayerns, Man U’s, etc. I’d be in favor of a EE wide league (from Czech Republic east to the former Soviet states), but I’ll firmly pass on some “Balkan”, “Adriatic” or “Southeastern Europe” liga….
Predrag Mijatovic came out this week and brought up the old “What if Yugoslavia were still together? – It would have the strongest national soccer team in the World”
Maybe – but, again, just like before, Serbs would be the majority of those chosen, so, we’d never know. Makes you wonder how much more successful Yugoslavia would have been at sporting events if the athletes were picked on talent alone and politics were not involved.
I’m 53 years old and yes, I watched and cheered for Yugoslavia’s national teams back as far as the 60’s – along with the majority of Croatians who lived around the World.
No shame in that – there were Croatian athletes on those teams – not enough of them obviously – the 1998 World Cup squad proved that.
i remember people in Zadar going crazy in anticipation of watching the 1974 team and watched the 9-0 trouncing of Zaire in a cafe. Everybody was cheering and laughing.
Doesn’t make you less of a Croatian now if you did, so, stop making dumb ass statements.
As far as a regional league, the majority of us on this site bash the Croatian domestic league on a consistent basis, so, let’s have a change. Hell, let’s bring in the teams from Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc. – it would be much more interesting.
Like someone mentioned above, it’s already being done in other sports.
….and let’s stop over-reacting with these statements about having one giant Balkan country. Stop mixing sports with politics.
My friend Luka Misetic was Ante Gotovina’s lawyer at the Hague. Couldn’t be more prouder of him for the job he did.
Nah, that is not it, but keep trying little man.
Don’t know, you tell me. Not every lottery pick will make it. I’m sure the percentage of US-born is higher because there is more of them. How many Euros are draftef in the lottery each year: one or two. The sample size is too small.
You didn’t answer my question, so I’ll ask it again: What’s the % of European busts in the top 10 of the NBA draft compared to the % of American busts?
And moron, learn how to read, I specifically said the bias is from the sports press and fans.
“ziva istina”: “this is not a free speech issue. You need to ‘learn’ (be “educated”) to OBEY.”
Maybe that’s why Croatia is a 2nd world country, too many “ziva istinas”, not enough Joe Simunics.
What anti-Europe bias?
The last 19 euros who have been drafted in the lottery have not made the all statr team.
But, the NBA keeps drafting them. So, if they are still being drafted, what bias is there?
Get your info in order before you come up with a flawed narrative.
come again???????????????
What nonsense are you talking about.
Listen djubre, there is only so much I can educate you about when you are unwilling to listen or too dense to accept knowledge.
What’s the % of European busts in the top 10 of the NBA draft compared to the % of American busts? Is it enough to warrant the anti-european BIAS of the American sports press and fans? Bunch of American Supremacists and countryists!
@Ziva, stop blaming your parents for the fact that you’re a moral coward. “This isn’t a free speech issue. You need to ‘learn’ to OBEY.”
I’m not praying for it to happen just read articles about how they want Cro teams to play more competitive games.
“ante Beta”: “A regional league? You might as well go take a collective piss on the graves of those who gave their lives to never have to play with ‘them’ ever again.”
This from the moron coward who calls anybody that wants to preserve White countries (including Croatia) for White children a “hater” and a “racist”.
To this moron TRAITOR, a soccer league which has nothing to do with Croatian independence nor Croatians’ real estate rights in Croatia is more important than keeping non-whites out of Croatia forever.
you right…………
parents have failed the youth. We need lie detector tests to access this site so we can see how many actually had parents who rooted for Jugo in sporting comeptitions prior to 1990.
Those of you who have parents that failed you, may I suggest you go to church more often.
well, if we have the ABA… yeah you’re right, might as well have a regional liga for nogomet
and you know what? while we’re at it maybe we can field a regional NT!!! and then let’s just get rid of all border crossings and maybe put ciricila in all our schools too?
sadly, I bet some of your parents failed you in this regard and you’re actually praying for this hypothetical bullshit to happen….
boze, boze…..
They have it in basketball (although they are having issues now becasue FIBA wont sanction the league), handball and they may have it in water polo (not completely sure)?
I am against it. If you are a fan of XXXX team and your team has a game in BG and they don’t want visiting fans to attend, then that league is not worth having around. The heads of the federations all appear to be in favor of it citing lagging attendance, possibility of more money through sponsorships, etc.).
The stadiums in the other ex-jugo countires are just as bas as what we have in Cro. Outside of the new stadium in Maribor, not of them have modern day neccesaties that are needed to watch soccer: HD scoreboard, roof, comfortable seats, suites, a large selection of food and beverage in the stadium during action, adequate restrooms, restaurants, powerful wifi signal.
Can you imagine going to a sporting event in the US/Canada and a stadium or erna didn’t have this? Nobody would show up.
It might happen they already have a league for basketball.
A regional league? You might as well go take a collective piss on the graves of those who gave their lives to never have to play with ‘them’ ever again.
It will never happen. It just talk.
any talk of a regional league makes me vomit….
And then we have this…….
http://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/sastala-se-nogometna-jugoslavija-odgodjena-rasprava-o-regionalnoj-ligi/827387.aspx
Well, if there ever was a good location to discuss the future of ex-Yugo soccer, opatija would be it. You can’t find a more jugoslav city.
Nice move, but let’s not make it more than this. There is no deep connection. Players send their gear for others to jock sniff all the time for various reasons.
Stephen Curry = Soul Champion.
wow… classy dude… so nice to see