Vlade Divac has held numerous titles throughout his remarkable career in professional basketball. He’s a trailblazer for international players, a multi-time FIBA World Champion and Olympic silver medalist, an NBA All-Star, a humanitarian, a former President of the Serbian Olympic Committee and now, the current VP of Basketball Operations and General Manager for the Sacramento Kings.
All too often though, the 7-1, Serbian-born center is solely (and perhaps unfairly to an extent) remembered as the player the Charlotte Hornets acquired from the Los Angeles Lakers in July of 1996 in exchange for the draft rights to future Hall-of-Famer and five-time champion Kobe Bryant.