After leading Slovenia to the EuroBasket championship last week and celebrating arguably his grandest achievement as a basketball player, Goran Dragic said he’ll be back in South Florida Sunday and fresh and ready to go when the Miami Heat open training camp next Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University.
“If you ask me I can start practicing twice a day,” Dragic said by phone Friday afteroon from his home in Slovenia. “I have enough strength left. The last few days I’ve had off. I didn’t even run. I think I’m going to be fresh in training camp.”
Driven by the decision he made that this was going to be his last international competition, Dragic, 31, led Slovenia to a perfect 9-0 record in the tournament and was named MVP after he averaged a team-high 22.