As a sports fan, the names Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic meant something to me.
Some of the first (if not, the first) foreign-born players to play in the NBA, they were well-known in basketball circles.
I also knew, tangentially, that they both hailed from the former Yugoslavia.
What I didn’t know was the story of how their once strong friendship was another casualty of the civil war in the Balkans.
As luck would have it, I watched the ESPN 30 for 30 film “Once Brothers” and got an entirely new perspective on them, basketball, and the world.
How two people who, ostensibly, were all about basketball and friendship, got caught up in events out of their control.
A humbling reminder for all of us.