SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 13 : WHERE WILL NEXT KUKOC COME FROM?
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Who will follow Europe’s bumper 1980s crop of Vlade Divac, Sarunas Marciulionis, Drazen Petrovic and Arvidas Sabonis?
Try no one.
The best young basketball player in the Games has been Croatia’s Arijan Komazec, a 22-year-old 6-foot-7 swingman. Warrior assistant coach Donn Nelson says he’s surprised Komazec didn’t go in the recent NBA draft and rates him as a solid second-rounder, but that’s as good as it
got.
Toni Kukoc, snuffed by the U.S. team, which went head-hunting for him, has been unimpressive against other teams.
Says NBC’s Billy Packer: “He’s content just to oversee the game and make pretty passes that are impossible to catch.”
Says Christophe Deroullet, a former French national player, now a reporter for the magazine, Mondial Basket: “I’m supposed to do a story on four good young players, and I can’t find any.”
This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore Sun, all Times-Mirror newspapers.
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