The story of Dino Radja aka the “Croatian Sensation” is not unlike my own. Except the part where he fled to Croatia in 97 upon hearing he had been traded to the Sixers for Clarence Weatherspoon, I never did that. One of my many favorite things about this figure is the remarkably ambiguous pose. Is he shooting? Rebounding? Playing Defense (hahaha, oh man…I’m kidding, Dino didn’t play defense)? My guess is he’s imitating the patented Sherman Douglas “sky finger-roll”.
Dino isn’t the only Croatian Sensation to the grace the plastic confinement of SLUdom, Toni Kukoc also has the honor and someday he’ll stand along side Dino in my antique SLU china cabinet.
