For basketball legend Vlade Divac moving to USA as part of the first group of European players to be transferred to the NBA in the late 1980s was a blessing in disguise.


Former NBA star Vlade Divac trains kids at IES Raja Shivaji HS in Dadar yesterday. Pic/Atul Kamble 

In this city, to conduct a clinic at the IES Raja Shivaji school (Dadar) as a part of the Reliance Foundation junior NBA program, the 46-year-old seven-foot-one-inch former basketballer spoke about how the sport helped him stay away from the Yugoslav war (1991-99). "War broke out back home just two years after I left for the NBA program.