Ex-NBA star Divac breaks hip in motorcycle crash

PODGORICA, Montenegro -- Former NBA halfway Vlade Divac underwent exigency country aft breaking a hep successful a autumn from his motorcycle successful Montenegro, doctors said Friday.

The mishap happened Thursday connected a roadworthy adjacent the Montenegrin Adriatic Sea coast. Hospital officials said the 57-year-old Divac sustained a fracture and that an artificial hep was implanted.

"During the day, a surgical process was performed," said Ljubica Mitrovic, a spokeswoman of the infirmary successful the municipality of Risan. "He is successful a unchangeable wide and carnal information and is nether a cautious supervision of the aesculapian staff."

The 7-foot-1 Serbian halfway started and ended his 16-year NBA vocation with the Los Angeles Lakers. He besides played for the Charlotte Hornets and Sacramento Kings. He was an All-Star successful 2001. He aboriginal served arsenic wide manager of the Kings.

When helium joined the Lakers successful 1989, helium was among the archetypal radical of European players to transportation to the NBA.

Divac was besides the archetypal subordinate calved and trained extracurricular the United States to play successful implicit 1,000 games successful the NBA. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame successful 2019.

Divac served 2 presumption arsenic caput of Serbia's Olympic Committee.