NBA champion's biggest score for Serbian Youth: Vlade Divac at TEDxViadellaConciliazione

Описание: Vlade Divac is a World Champion Basketball Player. He played for the 1990 Yugoslavian "European Dream Team" and opened up the way for Europeans to play in the NBA where he played alongside the likes of "Magic" Johnson. Vlade Divac's experience of basketball was inescapably intertwined with the civil wars and genocide happening in Yugoslavia during the 1990's. In 1990, Divac won the World Championship with a team he considered his family, a team made up of Serbs and Croats. With the beginning of the Balkan wars, his relationship with Croat NBA player and Divac's closest friend, DrazenPetrovic, abruptly ended. In 1995, before Divac and Petrovic were able to reconcile, Petrovic died in a car crash. The documentary "Once Brothers" witnesses their story. After his NBA career, Divac has dedicated himself to creating houses and jobs for refugees and internally displaced people living in Serbia, regardless of their nationality, race, religion, political views or any other affiliation or commitments.

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