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07-05-05, 12:47 AM
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Not about trading either- so please leave those comments for elsewhere. Rasho has been involved in 2 retirement games in the past week and Beno played in one of them. I think these games are really great. I would love for us to do that here for our greatest players. They both were also named to the 15 man Slovenian Squad for the European Championships in September. Europe's best toast Sasha Djordjevic A remarkable list of European basketball legends came together on Sunday in Belgrade for a tribute game to retiring point guard Sasha Djordjevic, one of the signature players of his generation. Djordjevic started his pro career in 1987 with Partizan of Belgrade and finished it last season with Armani Jeans Milano. In between, he played at Real Madrid and Barcelona of Spain, Fortitudo and Scavolini of Italy, as well as the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA. Everywhere, Djordjevic was a winner. He led his national team to the World Championship crown in 1998, to European titles in 1991, 1995 and 1997, when he was MVP, and to an Olympic silver medal in 1996. He also won five national league titles between Partizan, Barcelona and Madrid. Djordjevic will be remembered most, however, for his full-court sprint and buzzer-beating three-pointer that gave Partizan its only Euroleague title, in 1992, by a 71-70 final score over Joventut Badalona. Superstars from five decades were at Pionir Arena in Belgrade on Sunday to pay tribute to Djordjevic. A unique format of four quarters named for key moments in Djordjevic's career allowed many of the greatest names in the sport to play on the same court together in a once-in-a-lifetime game. Among them were Dino Meneghin, Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoc, Antonello Riva, Dino Radja, Predrag Danilovic, Rafa Jofresa, Dejan Bodiroga and Jure Zdovc, to whom many of the same players paid tribute days earlier in a similar game in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For Djordjevic, legends filled the bench, too, as four of the biggest names in coaching - Dusan Ivkovic, Boza Maljkovic, Zeljko Obradovic or Svetislav Pesic - directed their former player one last time in a tribute that will not soon be forgotten. Djordjevic's tribute game had the usual four quarters, but each of them was identified with its own name and rosters. The first wascalled "Veterans Don't Give Up" and featured the generation of players on Partizan when Djordjevic joined the team, legends like Goran Grbovic, Boban Petrovic, Misko Maric, Nebojsa Zorkic or Miroslav Pecarski. They faced a team of European legends with Meneghin, Radja, Danko Cvjeticanin Zdovc and Richard Dacoury. The second quarter was called "Athens Forever" and was dedicated to the Yugoslav national team that won the European Championships in 1995. Djordjevic was joined by Predrag Danilovic, Zarko Paspalj, Zoran Savic, Vlade Divac, Dejan Bodiroga, Sasha Obradovic and Zeljko Rebraca against an all-star team featuring Kukoc, Petar Naumoski, Riva and Zoran Sretenovic. Kukoc was awarded a standing ovation, as it was his first game in Belgrade in more than 14 years. The third quarter, called "Faster Than The Buzzer", remembering his winning shot against Joventut in 1992. Djordjevic played with his Partizan class of 1992 teammates Zeljko Rebraca, Danilovic, Slavisa Koprivica and Ivo Nakic against stars like Jofresa, Rodrigo de la Fuente and Zan Tabak. The final quarter was named "Is Anyone Stronger?" and focused on the latter years of his career. Djordjevic played with Yugoslavian national teammates with whom he won the 1998 World Championships - Pedja Stojakovic, Vladimir Radmanovic, Predrag Drobnjak, Milan Gurovic, Bodiroga and Igor Rakocevic - against some of the best current European players, like Sarunas Jasikevicius, Jaka Lakovic, Marko Milic and Radoslav Nesterovic. A big number of legends were also on the bench, with Euroleague-winning coaches like Ivkovic, Maljkovic, Obradovic and Pesic opposed by Sergio Scariolo and current Partizan coach Dusan Vujosevic on the visitors bench. Besides being a great tribute, the show raised money for UNICEF, for whom Djordjevic is an ambassador. Another European basketball legend, Zdovc, also said goodbye earlier last week at fully-packed Hala Pionir arena in Ljubljana. Zdovc, arguably one of the best Slovenian players ever, received a special gift: the gold medal he won at the 1991 European championships, which he had never received due to the fact thet Slovenia became independent days before the final, forcing Zdovc to leave the team before the title game. Zdovc, a Euroleague champion with Limoges in 1993, also played for Knorr Bologna in Italy, Iraklis and Panionios in Greece, Tofas Bursa in Turkey, Slovan in Sloevnia, Split in Croatia and above all, Union Olimpija, where he spent 11 seasons. A green team featuring Slovenian and former Olimpija players like Dusan Hauptman, Primoz Brezec, Beno Udrih, Nesterovic, Jasikevicius, Jiri Welsch, Milic, Slavko Kotnik and Peter Vilfan faced a white team full of European all-stars like Kukoc, Divac, Radja, Djordjevic, Stojko Vrankovic, Danilovic, Velimir Perasovic, Paspalj, Zoran Cutura, Bodiroga, Panagiotis Giannakis and Roberto Brunamonti. Zdovc played one half with each team. http://www.euroleague.net/noticia.js...nada=29&id=137 I have no clue what most of this says, but I can read the list of names for the Slovenian National Team: Sani Bečirovič Primož Brezec Aleksandar Čapin Nebojša Joksimovič Goran Jurak Ivica Jurković Jaka Lakovič Erazem Lorbek Marko Maravič Marko Milič Boštjan Nachbar Radoslav Nesterović Sašo Ožbolt Matjaž Smodiš Beno Udrih http://sportal.siol.net/default.asp?...10506281413420 Last edited by user name; 07-05-05 at 12:50 AM.      |
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07-05-05, 06:08 AM
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__________________ Blake: "From day 1, Ive backed up everything Ive said. People keep setting 'em up and I keep shooting 'em down."     (Example of his legitimate reasoning: "Screw it.")
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07-05-05, 08:48 AM
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07-05-05, 02:04 PM
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__________________ Blake: "From day 1, Ive backed up everything Ive said. People keep setting 'em up and I keep shooting 'em down." (Example of his legitimate reasoning: "Screw it.")
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07-05-05, 04:04 PM
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