Back in July, on the day he signed his contract with the Nets, Dzazan Musa noted his good fortune but also commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre when 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were lined up and shot to death, their bodies left behind by Serbian troops.
“I’m thinking all day about the irony that I’m signing my first NBA contract on this day,” he told Radio Sarajevo. “I sympathize with my Bosnia and Herzegovina and I do not plan to celebrate this day, because of Srebrenica and the tragedy that struck my people.