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Together, they lifted the yugoslavian national team to unimaginable heights. The rules had to be changed to allow drazen petrovic to sign for madrid, forming with biriukov, rogers, fernando martin and company one of the most brilliant teams in basketball history. Stephen curry sends drazen petrovics mom finals jersey. Drazen petrovic career bests and rankings, new jersey nets.
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