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  1. Vlade Divac: Basketball, Euroleague, Assists, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA, Center (Basketball), Serbian Olympic Committee
  2. Basketball Players in Serbia by Club: Kk Partizan Players, Red Star Belgrade Basketball Players, Peja Stojakovic, Vlade Divac, Zarko Paspalj
  3. Red Star Belgrade Basketball Players: Peja Stojakovic, Vlade Divac, Vladimir Radmanovic, Milan Gurovic, Igor Rakocevic, Billy Thomas
  4. Serbian Expatriate Basketball People in the United States: Vlade Divac, Darko Milicic, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Vladimir Radmanovic, Nenad Krstic
  5. Joueur Serbe de Basket-Ball: Dejan Bodiroga, Predrag Danilovic, Vlade Divac, Milos Teodosic, Zeljko Obradovic, Drazen Dalipagic (French Edition)
  6. Serbian Basketball Players: Pete Maravich, Peja Stojakovic, Vlade Divac, Dejan Bodiroga, Darko Milicic, Aleksandar Pavlovic
  7. Olympic Basketball Players of Yugoslavia: Peja Stojakovic, Drazen Petrovic, Vlade Divac, Zarko Paspalj, Dejan Bodiroga, Toni Kukoc
  8. Joueur Yougoslave de Basket-Ball: Toni Kukoc, Drazen Petrovic, Dejan Bodiroga, Predrag Danilovic, Dino Rada, Kresimir Cosic, Vlade Divac (French Edition)

41. ESPN.com - NBA - Lakers C Vlade Divac Retires
Updated July 15, 2005, 1216 AM ET. Lakers C vlade divac retires. SportsTickerNational basketball Association News Wire
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42. Hoopsstats.com - Vlade Divac Profile 2005 - NBA Fantasy Basketball Statistics
NBA fantasy basketball statistics,complete NBA basketball fantasy stats sourcefor Los Angeles Lakers,vlade divac, players statistics,matchups,rankings
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Category : NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers Vlade Divac Profile ... glossary Notes Matchups Vlade Divac - Missed last 2 games - L.A.Lakers is - 2 in these games Game Log - Has missed 67 games - L.A.Lakers is 27 - 40 without him Tips Last 5 games Game Log Vlade Divac Date Opponent Min Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk To Pf Dreb Oreb Fgm-a Pct 3gm-a Pct Ftm-a Pct eff Apr 20 at Portland L DNP Apr 18 at Golden State L DNP Apr 17 vs Dallas L Apr 15 vs Sacramento L Apr 11 vs Phoenix L Stats Full Stats Vlade Divac G Gs Min Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk To Pf Dreb Oreb Fgm-a Pct 3pm-a Pct Ftm-a Pct eff Overall Home Road vs playoff ... vs lottery Highlights Vlade Divac - Recorded 21 minutes at Seattle Boxscore Top NBA players in Minutes - Scored 8 points at Sacramento Boxscore Top NBA Scorers - Grabbed 5 rebounds vs Dallas

43. Hoopsstats.com - Vlade Divac Profile 2003 - NBA Fantasy Basketball Statistics
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Category : NBA Basketball Sacramento Kings Vlade Divac Profile ... glossary Notes Matchups Vlade Divac - Has scored 20+ points in 6 games Statistics - Has collected 10+ rebounds 21 times Statistics - Has missed 2 games - Sacramento is - 2 without him Tips - Has started 92 games Statistics - Has won 43 matchups Won-matchups statistics - Has lost 28 matchups Lost-matchups statistics - Has won 6 matchups against top 10 Centers Won-matchups statistics - Has lost 11 matchups against top 10 Centers Lost-matchups statistics Note : Won - Lost matchups are calculated only if Vlade Divac has 25 minutes or more in the game. They are based on efficiency recap difference.

44. Folsom Telegraph : Local Sports
vlade divac is still that charismatic, funseeking guy we all loved when he playedfor the I still love basketball in a way where I have to have fun.
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Local Sports Vlade Divac: Always a King
Retirement, Kings break-up, future of coaching By: Steve Crane, The Telegraph
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:39 PM PDT
A recent report out of Serbia-Montenegro stated that the 16-year NBA veteran had announced his retirement due to recurring back problems. Divac, who suited up for only 15 games for the Lakers last season after back surgery, first addressed the issue of whether or not he will lace them up for a 17th pro season. "It's basically on hold until Sept. 30," Divac said. "That's the day where I have to make a decision and when the Lakers have to make a decision. Before there was speculation, there was another article in the L.A. Times that named like five different options that might happen with me. One of those was obviously retirement, and I guess some people have said they'd like me to retire, including the one that made up the whole issue about it. But Sept. 30 is the day when I'm going to decide." The Lakers hold a team option on Divac's final contract year.

45. Free Serbia - Other Voices From Serbia - FS Specials | Top Spot
Weekly magazin Vreme initiated the campaign to add vlade divac to the list of and include an outstanding sportsman, basketball star vlade divac,
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Weekly magazin " Vreme " initiated the campaign to add Vlade Divac to the list of candidates for the International Olympic Committee. The FreeSerbia team joins the appeal initiated by Vreme and calls everyone to voice their support to the candidature of Vlade Divac. To Juan Antonio Samaranch
Chairman of the International Olympic Committee
Lausanne
Dear Mr. Samaranch,
We write this letter with hopes that you can use your authority and try to amend an outrageous act of injustice done to an outstanding sportsman such as Vlade Divac, player of Sacramento Kings and prominent member of the Yugoslav national basketball team. He was only eighteen years old when you shook his hand for the first time and put a bronze medal around his neck after the World Basketball Championship in Madrid 14 years ago. He was the youngest member of the Yugoslav squad, but his talent was obvious even then. You have met him on many occasions since then, usually on the highest step of the pedestal, and granted him gold medals he won with the Yugoslav team. Vlade Divac has been playing in the NBA league for 11 years as one of the most successful Europeans in the world's best basketball show. However, the bond with Yugoslavia, his home country, and his parents and brother living there, has always remained unbreakable. Divac played for Yugoslavia whenever he could, most recently at the European Championship in France last year.

46. InterBasket - Vlade Divac, Serbia-Montengro -- Sacramento Kings
Name vlade divac (VLAHday DEE-vats) Nickname Born 02/03/1968 An iron-maneven in his senior basketball years, divac and AC Green were the only
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Vlade Divac,
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Languages: Serbian and English Website: http://www. Divac.net InterBasket.net Forums Teams (jersey) Yugoslavian National Team (12), Los Angeles Lakers, Charlotte Hornets (12), Sacramento Kings (21) Personal Facts: Vlade’s w edding to Ana was attended by over 1000 people. Vlade and his wife have two sons and an adopted daughter from Belgrade Yugoslavia, his hometown. They founded the "Divac Fund" through the St. John Foundation to help raise money for children affected by the war in Yugoslavia. He enjoys music, his favorite groups being the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Rolling Stones. Divac was a guest on Larry King Live, a popular TV-talk show in the US, and The Tonight Show in 1999. He has appeared in the movies "Eddie" and "Driving Me Crazy" and the TV shows "Coach" and "Married With Children." Divac has appeared in numerous television spots and this season, 2003-4, will appear in an international television commercial promoting TNT on NBA broadcasts. Although he never played college ball, Divac put in five pro seasons in his home country before joining the Lakers in 1989. He left home at age 12 to pursue a basketball career, and at 16 he had signed a professional contract with Sloga, for whom he played two years.

47. NBA International
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48. News&features - January 30, 2003
His countryman, Kings center vlade divac, is on the bench when the shot splashes She is a lifelong basketball fan who finds herself conflicted about
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2003-01-30/news.asp
Calendar Music Film Eat It Up ... E-mail Page News Vlade's three-finger salute
By Cosmo Garvin
The three-finger salute, shown here in a recent ad from The Sacramento Bee, stirs up bad memories for many Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
at Arco Arena, and the Sacramento Kings are well on their way to a nasty rout of Western Conference rivals the Dallas Mavericks. Serbian shooting phenom Peja Stojakovic drains a three-pointer, just one of six This image of an exultant salute is broadcast around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people see it, and to many, the meaning of the sign is obvious: Three fingers means three points, a cause for celebration. Still others, Muslims and Croats in America and Europe, will read it as a symbol of hate, intimidation and terrorismas recognizable and despicable to them as the strong-arm salute of the Nazis. But the most frightening experience of her life came as she and her family fled Sarajevo. It was on that trip that she feared the three-finger salute would be the last thing she saw before she died. Her family was in one of the last bus convoys out of that besieged city in 1994, when Filipovic was only 11. Five buses were in the convoy. It was winter and bitterly cold. She remembers that the passengers were forbidden to stray more than a few feet from the buses during their brief rest stops because the roadsides were littered with land mines. She also remembers the embarrassment of trying to go to the bathroom in the frozen shadow of the bus.

49. Easy Reader Story
vlade divac is one of the most incredible people I ve ever met. The onlypart of his world that had stayed the same was the basketball court.
http://easyreader.hermosawave.net/news2002/storypage.asp?StoryID=20026606&IssueP

50. Easy Reader Story
vlade divac holds court with his basketball camp kids. divac will lead the kidson court in Redondo next week at Aviation Gym.
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51. Fantasy Basketball Help - Sports Card Forum
OK I just entered a fantasy basketball league with a couple of guys from school C divac, vlade (CSac) C Okur, Mehmet (FC-Det) Util Snow, Eric (PG-Phi)
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Fantasy Basketball Help - 10-27-2003, 01:07 PM OK I just entered a fantasy basketball league with a couple of guys from school and I need some advice...
Payton, Gary (PG-LAL)
Szczerbiak, Wally (GF-Min)
Billups, Chauncey (PG-Det)
Kirilenko, Andrei (SF-Uta)
Wallace, Ben (FC-Det)
Prince, Tayshaun (SF-Det)
Divac, Vlade (C-Sac)
Ford, T.J. (PG-Mil)
Milicic, Darko (F-Det)
Snow, Eric (PG-Phi) Wells, Bonzi (GF-Por) Pippen, Scottie (GF-Chi) Ostertag, Greg (C-Uta) And I am lost with what I should do. I know I need to start Snow because of the assists he gets but I already have Gary Payton as my PG. I can Have Snow play guard but I have Chauncey Billups there. One idea I had would be to trade Billups for a forward and then use Tayshaun Prince as a utility guy and then start Snow at guard. I need to get rid of one of my Piston guys because that's pretty insane to have the idea to start 3 Detroit guys. PLEASE PLEASE help if you can!! Sell and Trade your Cards, Free!

52. Vlade To Retire
There are reports on the FIBA website that vlade divac will retire sometime beforethe NBA season starts Every one of his 16 years of NBA basketball.
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Saturday, July 16, 2005 July 2005 Larry Brown in CandyLand 30 Things I Wanna Get At One More Week For My Fantasy Draft My Last Day To Be Young ... All Hail The Redneck Games!!!! Vlade To Retire Lakers Trade For Kwame Brown Hey....I've Been Busy!!! Kobe's New Nike Ad All Hail The Great Outdoor Games!!! ... Hold up!!! How did they get two first round picks!!!? Friday, July 15, 2005 Vlade To Retire Divac ending a Hall Of Fame career
There are reports on the FIBA website that Vlade Divac will retire sometime before the NBA season starts back up. A back injury that sidelined Divac most of this past season is the reasoning for the retirement. Divac is a very interesting player in my life. I've never formally met him....though I did talk to him once. He had his AOL Screename available for people to IM him back in the mid-late 1990s....so I hit him up one night. Just hollered at him...told him I was a fan of his and just to say hi. He repectfully chatted with me for a sec. At that time, he was on the internet a bunch. His homeland, the former Yugoslavia, was in a horrible civil war and he was keeping tabs via the internet of what was going on. Divac is most likely the biggest athlete to come out of Yugoslavia...and was one of the guys who helped usher in the European Invasion.

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54. Kraljevo - Vlade Divac
vlade divac. Born on 3.2.1968. at Prijepolje (Southwesten Serbia) , vlade divac,the most worldfamous name of Yugoslav basketball, started his career
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Born on 3.2.1968. at Prijepolje (Southwesten Serbia) , Vlade Divac, the most world-famous name of Yugoslav basketball, started his career playing in basketball club "Sloga" at Kraljevo. He also finished high school here and got married later, staying our co-citizen forever. There are a lot of information on Internet concerning Vlade Divac. We just want to remind here on important points of his great career: 1983-1985: "Sloga", Kraljevo 1986-1989: "Partizan" Belgrade 1986: bronze medal at World Championship
1987: bronze medal at European Championship
1988: gold medal at European Championship for youngsters
1988: silver medal at Olympic Games
1989: gold medal at European Championship 1989-1996: Los Angeles Lakers (NBA) 1990: gold medal at World Championship
1990: selected to season First "rookie" Tim of NBA
1991: gold medal at European Championship
1991: playing in NBA finals
1995: selected as NBA "player of the week"
1995: gold medal at European Championship
1996: silver medal at Olympic Games 1996-1998: Charlotte Hornets (NBA) 1999: bronze medal at European Championship 1998-2004: Sacramento Kings (NBA) 2002: selected to plaz for team of West in "All Stars" game 2002: plazing in West conference finals 2002: gold medal at World Championship 2004-2005: Los Angeles Lakers (NBA) Level up

55. TSN.ca - NBA - Canada's Sports Leader
vlade divac calls it a career vlade divac. Sports Ticker One of most popularSerboMontenegro basketball players of all time, the 7-footer planned to
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56. 24sec.net - Vlade Divac
News for all the major European leagues, International basketball, vlade Divacwas born on February 3, 1968 in Prijepolje, Yugoslavia (now Serbia and
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57. NBA Finals, NBA Playoffs - National Basketball Association Championship Playoff
NBA National basketball Association Playoff Championship Games, Orlando Magic, divac, vlade Doleac, Michael Dooling, Keyon Drew, Bryce
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According to Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, “you hate to say it, but I think MJ got used. Now, where are the Wizards? Both parties lose in all of this. Michael gets tainted, and the Wizards lose their No. 1 draw.” During his time at the Wizards, they became the most popular road draw and made $30 million, selling out every game. Michael Jordan, while playing for the Chicago Bulls in the ‘90s, led them to six NBA championship titles.
BET Founder Bob Johnson Wants Michael Jordan to Join Charlotte North Carolina’s New NBA Team
5-8-03. Bob Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, has asked basketball legend, Michael Jordan to join his Charlotte expansion franchise. The two friends met at a Chicago Bulls game twelve years ago. According to Johnson, who purchased the yet-to-be-named team for $300 million, “absolutely I want him to be involved. He can play any role he wants to play, frankly.” Jordan is being shopped around by his representatives to other franchises, including the Chicago Bulls, whom he played for 13 years and the Atlanta Hawks, who are for sale.

58. United Nations System In Serbia & Montenegro - UN Goodwill Ambassadors
Sacramento Kings star vlade divac was named Goodwill Ambassador for Sports Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork, divac
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Printer friendly HOME Vlade Divac Emir Kusturica ... Djordje Balasevic Vlade Divac Sacramento Kings star Vlade Divac was named Goodwill Ambassador for Sports Against Drugs in 2000. A native of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Divac led the Yugoslav team to silver medals at the 1998 Seoul and 1996 Atlanta Olympic games. A skilled shooter, passer, rebounder and shotblocker, Vlade Divac has become one of the most versatile centres in the NBA, playing seven solid seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers before moving to Charlotte and then Sacramento in 1998 and continuing his all-around play. He is the founder of the Divac Fund, which helps to raise money for children affected by the war in Yugoslavia through the St. John Foundation and is a recipient of the NBA's 1999-2000 Citizenship Award. Mr. Divac is featured in a 30-second public service announcement in both English and his native Serbian and in a widely distributed poster, as part of the UNDCP Sports Against Drugs campaign. Press release:
United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) Teams Up with National Basketball Association (NBA) and Sacramento Kings Star Vlade Divac

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60. Vlade Divac: King In The NBA, President In Serbia?
vlade divac is popular as a basketball player, he said. But he s not seen asa politician, that s the major problem. Polling showed Serbs had no
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/mar04/hed6286.shtml
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian reformers are looking to giant basketball star Vlade Divac to put them head and shoulders above ultra-nationalists in presidential polls.
The 7-foot-1 Sacramento Kings veteran was more likely to be concentrating on the current playoff race than becoming his country's next head of state.
But in a sign of mounting concern at the lack of a pro-reform champion, Divac's name was put into play in basketball-crazy Serbia Tuesday as soon as news broke that Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica would not be a contender.
"Divac for President," was the tabloid Kurir's headline.
Serbian liberals and Western diplomats fear the ultra-nationalist Radicals, whose leader Vojislav Seselj is in The Hague awaiting trial on war crimes charges, would simply stop the clock on economic and political reform if they could.
Were it not for a law declaring the results of last November's election void because turnout was below 50 percent, Radical Party acting leader Tomislav Nikolic would already be president, and in a position to at least delay legislation.
The minimum turnout law has now been scrapped. The date of Serbia's next bid to elect a head of state its fourth in two years has not yet been announced, but is confidently expected to fall between mid-May and mid-June.

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