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The Euroscar European Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given to the year's best male European basketball player. Its name is a portmanteau of Europe and Oscar, and the award is often referred to as "European basketball’s Oscar”.
German-born power forward Dirk Nowitzki has won six Euroscar Awards.
Lithuanian center Arvydas Sabonis won six Euroscar Awards between 1984 and 1999.
Croatian player Toni Kukoč won five Euroscar Awards between 1990 and 1998.
Spanish forward/center Pau Gasol won three straight awards between 2008 and 2010. His brother Marc won the award in 2014.
Dražen Petrović
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Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madrid before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.
Petrović's Nets jersey; his number 3 was retired by the team following his death.
Petrović's No. 3 hanging along with other notable Nets players, pictured in October 2018
Petrović playing for Croatia