Teletopez Posted October 10, 2010 Report Share Posted October 10, 2010 Seventeen years after, Divac looks back at his friendship with Petrovic as they won a World Championship, the destruction of their relationship through the Croatian War of Independence, and an unexpected goodbye before they could patch up their differences. He’ll never be old to us, which is a minor comfort. We in New Jersey will always remember Drazen Petrovic as the gamma ray burst that hit the local gym and lifted it from its foundation. And then he left us far too soon, before we could fully appreciate what he could have made of himself, his team and the league he already had turned on its ear. Vlade Divac’s memories of his friend are more complex, more endearing, more poignant. In his mind’s eye he still sees the lodestar that he and every kid in the Balkans came to idolize in the 1980s, the joie de vivre that gave Yugoslavian basketball its global identity, and the brother he would lose when war permanently severed the ties that bound them as tightly as teammates could ever be. “In the years that have passed, it’s a situation I can see from different angles,” Divac said in a conversation from Belgrade last week. “I realize now how much pressure he had from home, and in some ways I can understand it — political pressure, media, neighbors. He got it from Croatia, I got it from Serbia. “But on the other hand, I’ll never understand the hate on both sides, and the distance it created in our relationship.”Dave D'Alessandro Trailerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_FTjCe1C7Y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolor23 Posted October 13, 2010 Report Share Posted October 13, 2010 Anyone else watching? If so, who was watching earlier? What happened in the first 20 min or so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted October 13, 2010 Report Share Posted October 13, 2010 I'm watching it, not much happened in the first 20 minutes, just Divac talking about his personal life and international success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zolor23 Posted October 13, 2010 Report Share Posted October 13, 2010 I'm watching it, not much happened in the first 20 minutes, just Divac talking about his personal life and international success.Alright, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted October 13, 2010 Report Share Posted October 13, 2010 Wow I knew I recognized his name from somewhere lol now I remember he's the guy that the Lakers traded for Kobe. Amazing sad story about what a family and country can do to friendships. I love these 30 for 30's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted October 13, 2010 Report Share Posted October 13, 2010 Damn, this was the best one by far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabbylion Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 Damn, this was the best one by far I hear ya, bruh. I just saw it and I thought that it was one of the best 8 episodes I've seen thus far. Can you belive Drazen dropped 40+ on Jordan? That cat was tha truth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Bomba Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 The Allen Iverson Trail, the Len Bias story, and this were my favorite of the 30 For 30 series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YugoRocketsFan Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 Just watched this, really sad story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klashnekoff Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Petrooooooooo .. Real Nets fans know whats up .. dude dropped 40 on Jordan .. Quite possibly could have been the best Nets player ever .. but unfortunately Portland screwed him over and stole his youth and he died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teletopez Posted October 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 For those of you who missed this episode, which I, by the way, found to be amazing, it is scheduled to be shown this Wednesday at 9:30 PM on ESPN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newman Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 Any chance someone got a full episode link online? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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