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Post by jkr on Oct 14, 2010 18:36:22 GMT
Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were two friends who grew up together sharing the common bond of basketball. Together, they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights. After conquering Europe, they both went to America where they became the first two foreign players to attain NBA stardom. But with the fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991, Yugoslavia split up. A war broke out between Petrovic's Croatia and Divac's Serbia. Long buried ethnic tensions surfaced. And these two men, once brothers, were now on opposite sides of a deadly civil war. As Petrovic and Divac continued to face each other on the basketball courts of the NBA, no words passed between the two. Then, on the fateful night of June 7, 1993, Drazen Petrovic was killed in an auto accident. "Once Brothers" will tell the gripping tale of these two men, how circumstances beyond their control tore apart their friendship, and whether Divac has ever come to terms with the death of a friend before they had a chance to reconcile.
Even if you don't like basketball very much it's definitely worth watching
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Post by leanne on Oct 14, 2010 19:08:44 GMT
Sounds intriguing. Currenly watching first episode.
I shall let you know if it was any good; if it isn't i shall be requesting that you be banned for 3 months.
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Post by dereffe on Oct 14, 2010 19:58:46 GMT
thanks for this, will watch this later. a while ago i saw some kind of documentary about the red star belgrade supporters invading zagred and the dinamo zagreb fighting back. they say that's where the civil war started...and later they fought each other on the battlefields. just goes beyond human belief what happened there
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Post by macgruber on Oct 15, 2010 5:09:22 GMT
great piece, that group was the best collection of non USA players in the history of basketball imo.
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