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As athletes and pro sports franchises, we have the responsibility to use our platform to affect positive change in the community. I take it seriously.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Positive Change
Affect
Athletes
Pro
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Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That's why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Johnson
Lakers
Magic Johnson
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When I came to New York for the draft in '89, they told me I should be like 10 and 15, and it didn't happen. So I was very disappointed, like, nobody wants me.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Disappointed
Draft
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Sacramento and the Kings organization were always in my thoughts and I often dreamed of having a role in helping our amazing fans realize the ultimate NBA prize.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Nba
Prize
Sacramento
Dreamed
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Because I play in NBA, I am like ambassador of Yugoslavia. Los Angeles before, nobody hear of Yugoslavia. Now I think much people who look at basketball hear of Yugoslavia.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Nba
Yugoslavia
I Am Look People
Ambassador
Look I Am People
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I have to give a lot of credit to David Stern to open up the league, but also in my case, Jerry West and Dr. Buss that had the vision of international guys making it to the NBA.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Nba
Dr
Stern
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It was my dream for a long time to play in the NBA. When I was drafted, it was a challenge for me. I decided to go and see where I was compared to the best players in the world.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Decided
Long Time
Nba
Time Best World
Challenge
Best Time World
Drafted
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It was a lovely story that I finished my career with Kobe, with somebody who I was traded for. I have a lot of respect for the guy. I think he's definitely, by far, the best talent that I ever, ever played with.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Lovely
Traded
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I thought, 'I'm going to play in Yugoslavia, then I'll go to play in Italy or Spain.' Then I'll be 28 or 29 and I'll try NBA. I never thought I can play in NBA because NBA was totally different world for us in Europe.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Nba
Spain
Yugoslavia
Different World
Italy
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Well, the league is changing every year. It changed when I came. It changed before me. First of all, we have to be thankful for all those guys in the '60s and '70s. They made this league one of the best sports leagues in the world.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Sports
Changed
League
Be Thankful
First Of All
Guys
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Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we are still here with love, compassion, selflessness fairplay and supporting each other to be bigger and better human beings.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Compassion
Selflessness
Life Love Best
Lets
Supporting
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I'm happy that I helped basketball develop; I was trying to help basketball be the world's most popular sport, to bring people together from all over the world, it doesn't matter the background. We are all the soldiers of basketball.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Together World People
Soldiers
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I had to earn the respect from everybody, from referees to opponents, but my teammates, they saw some European guy coming here and I had to prove myself. Luckily, I proved myself, but with big help from the entire Lakers organization.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Lakers
Opponents
Teammates
Earn
Luckily
Proved
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Kobe made an impact on basketball in a big way. He came in the League when he was 17 years old, but he was working on his game every day... The way he played, people all around the world loved the passion that he put in for basketball.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Big Way
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I left my home, and it was the most beautiful country in the world in my eyes, and I was always happy in the summertime to go back. And then suddenly, the civil war starts, and you just worry first about your family and friends, and then an entire nation.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Beautiful Country
Civil War
Family And Friends
Left
Summertime
Worry
War Family Home
Civil
Nation
Entire
Eyes
Most Beautiful
Suddenly
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The year when I left my country, there was still peace. The year after, the war broke out, a lot of people lost their homes, lost their families. When I go back 20 years later I still find people living in refugee camps. So I tried to help them find homes.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Broke
Camps
Refugee
Homes
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NBA is totally different in style. In NBA, we play much more aggressive, much harder. It's not time for thinking. In Europe, we play every week, one game. Here we play every second day so if you lose, you don't have time to think about losing. Just go forward.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Aggressive
Every Second
Nba
Time Thinking Game
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My generation started in big tournaments. '88 Olympics, we got silver. '89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina, we got gold. '91 European Championship, we got gold, and then there was a civil war, and for three years, we didn't play.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Argentina
Championship
Civil War
My Generation
Olympics
Silver
Tournaments
World Cup
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First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper. But flopping was, in some period of my career, a part of my game, especially against Shaquille O'Neal. It was the only way I could try to stop him. And I did well, I guess.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Remember Me
Love Good Me
Love Good Game
Period
First Of All
Guess
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In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our careers here in the NBA, obviously, we became better players. When we used to play each other on the international level, that gap became smaller and smaller.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Careers
International
Nba
Gap
International Level
Obviously
Smaller
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You have so many players all around the world in the NBA, a lot of different generations. If you don't take basketball as a tool in your life, you can get lost. I know a lot of teammates, a lot of players that had a great career and after that career, they just get lost.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Basketball
Generations
Nba
Life Great World
Teammates
Great Career
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I'm a Yugoslavian who loves America - my kids are Americans, you know. They're always going to be half and half because they were born here and, I hope, live here, but they will always have a background of Yugoslavian. I'm still a Serbian, but with an American lifestyle.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Lifestyle
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Just like in life, when you play basketball, you have to give in order to receive. On the court, you're not only making things move along by giving the ball, but you're also giving your physical and mental strength, your passion, your talent, your trust in your teammates. This way the power can multiply and the whole team wins.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Teammates
Multiply
Receive
Wins
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I came here and actually fell in love with Charlotte and the Hornets. That's exactly what happened to me. I found a new way of motivation. Charlotte basically extended my career for the next seven years. I was thinking of retiring. I was 30 and played seven more years after that, just because basketball felt different here in Charlotte.
Vlade Divac / Basketball Player
Charlotte
Love Thinking Me
Exactly What
Extended
New Way
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