The 21-year-old Markota, who recently completed his rookie NBA season with the Milwaukee Bucks, was one of the many refugees forced to flee his homeland of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina when war was raging on the Balkan Peninsula of southern Europe in 1992.
Markota’s recollections of those days are not vivid ones, but they are telltale nonetheless.
“I remember the fear from the first couple days,” he said. “Things were firing and flying around like crazy. But I don’t remember too much, since I was only 6 ˝ years old at the time. I didn’t really understand what was going on.
BUCKS: Bucks Back When ... Damir Markota
05-15-2007, 04:20 PM
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