Frightful shock. Unbelievable pain. Overwhelming grief. When the heartbreaking news of Kobe Bryant’s death stunned the world Sunday, one-time members of the Nets community were revisited by the ...

Yesterday was the 31st anniversary of basketball legend Drazen Petrovic's death. The Croatian hooper tragically passed away in a car accident in Germany on June 7, 1993. He was just 28 years old. The ...

32 years ago today, the NBA lost one of greatest shooters in league history. Drazen Petrovic, the star of the then-New Jersey Nets, tragically died in a traffic accident in the summer of 1993. Today, ...

The following piece on Dražen Petrović originally published Feb. 8, 2022. Petrović died June 7, 1993, in an automobile accident. He was only 28 and preparing for his fifth season in the NBA. This ...

Welcome to the NBA 75, The Athletic’s countdown of the 75 best players in NBA history, in honor of the league’s diamond anniversary. We also will run features such as this one to complement certain ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — When Dino Radja played his first game for the Yugoslavian national team in 1987 at the age of 20, Drazen Petrovic, three years older, was already established as the team's star ...

The 1990s were undoubtedly dominated by "His Airness," Michael Jordan, who won six championships during that decade. And while nobody came close to his level of success, there were still plenty of ...

In a quiet moment during the Slovenian national team training camp before last summer's Eurobasket championship run, the team's coach, Igor Kokoskov, pulled aside Luka Doncic, his star prospect, for a ...

Michael Jordan had lots of rivals during his playing days. There was Reggie Miller. And Isiah Thomas. Can't forget John Starks. And Clyde Drexler. One of Jordan's biggest competitors, however, often ...