File -Sacramento Kings General Manager Vlade Divac looks up from the bank while his team warms up before he is confronted with the Denver Nuggets in an NBA basketball game, October 21, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Podgorica, Montenegro – Former NBA Center Vlade Divac underwent an emergency operation after breaking a hip in a fall of his motorcycle in Montenegro, doctors said on Friday.
The accident happened on Thursday on a road near the Montenegrin Adriatic Sea. Hospital officials said that the 57-year-old Divac had a fracture and that an artificial hip was implanted.
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“A surgical procedure was performed during the day,” said Ljubica Mitrovic, a spokeswoman for the hospital in the city of Risan. “He is in a stable general and physical condition and is under careful supervision of the medical staff.”
The Serbian center of 7 Voet-1 (2.16m) started and ended his 16-year-old NBA career at the Los Angeles Lakers. He also played for the Charlotte Hornets and Sacramento Kings. He was an All-Star in 2001. He later served as general manager of the kings.
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When he came to the Lakers in 1989, he was one of the first group of European players to switch to the NBA.
Divac was also the first player to be born outside the United States and trained to play in more than 1,000 games in the NBA. He was chosen in 2019 in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Divac served two periods as head of the Olympic Committee of Serbia.
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