{"id":425274,"date":"2025-01-25T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=425274"},"modified":"2025-01-25T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:07:09","slug":"basketball-mourns-drazen-dalipagic-basketball-legend-passes-away-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/basketball-mourns-drazen-dalipagic-basketball-legend-passes-away-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball mourns Dra\u017een Dalipagi\u0107: basketball legend passes away at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden @container\/thread\">\n<div class=\"h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-wowft-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-wowft-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm md:pb-9\">\n<article class=\"w-full scroll-mb-[var(--thread-trailing-height,150px)] text-token-text-primary focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-[-4px]\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-75\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"m-auto text-base py-[18px] px-3 md:px-4 w-full md:px-5 lg:px-4 xl:px-5\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto flex flex-1 gap-4 text-base md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem]\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"2910c96a-8449-46a5-b550-9d6bf4b7baf3\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>Dra\u017een Dalipagi\u0107, affectionately known as &#8220;Praja,&#8221; passed away today in Belgrade at the age of 73. Born in Mostar on November 27, 1951, Dalipagi\u0107 was one of the brightest stars in basketball history, a legend for Partizan Belgrade and the Yugoslav national team.<\/p>\n<p>During his time with Partizan, from 1971 to 1980 and the 1981\/82 season, Dalipagi\u0107 won two Yugoslav league titles, a SFRJ Cup, and two Kora\u0107 Cups. He remains the club&#8217;s all-time leading scorer with 8,278 points. Internationally, he won gold medals at the Olympics (1980), World Cup (1978), and EuroBasket (1973, 1975, 1977), amassing 243 appearances between 1973 and 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his immense talent and unique character, Dalipagi\u0107 earned numerous accolades, including <em>Mr. Europa<\/em> in 1977 and 1978 and recognition as Europe&#8217;s best player three times. He also played in Italy and Spain for teams such as Real Madrid, Udine, Venice, and Verona, ending his career in 1991 with Crvena Zvezda.<\/p>\n<p>Dalipagi\u0107 leaves behind an indelible legacy in basketball and will be remembered as one of the greatest of all time. Funeral details will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Legenda koja \u0107e \u017eiveti zauvek! Prajo, po\u010divaj u miru! \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/StDmBGqZFE\">pic.twitter.com\/StDmBGqZFE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ostoja Mijailovic (@Ostoja1945) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ostoja1945\/status\/1883088349009006670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Partizan icon and Yugoslav basketball legend dies in Belgrade after a long illness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":425273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[191,297],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-425274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-serbia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GiIS3pSXwAAQ-s5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425274"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=425274"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=425274"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=425274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}