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the summer of 2001 the United Nations collaborated with the NBA and
FIBA to stage a weekend gathering called Basketball Without Borders.
Fifty kids, aged 12 to 14 and drawn equally from the five successor
states of the former Yugoslavia, assembled in Treviso, Italy, where
they were assigned teammates and roommates regardless of nationality
or ethnic background. Among the pros who came to teach lessons in
the game—as well as in leadership, tolerance, and how to stand
up to peer pressure—were two members of that ’87 world junior
title team, Vlade Divac of the Sacramento Kings, a Serb, and Toni
Kukoc of the Atlanta Hawks, a Croat, shown here in their very last
appearance as national teammates, at the 1991 European Championships
in Rome. To read my account of that weekend, click
here. EIGHT:
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