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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Nenad Krstic needed some time off this summer, heading into a contract year with the New Jersey Nets he wanted to rest instead of playing with his native Serbia in the world basketball championships.
That didn't sit too well back home, it seems.
"Constant pressure," he said of his summer. "They tried to intimidate me, and tell me they would put me in the army. There were a lot of people acting like my friends, who really weren't. I kept telling them it was for just one year, that I would play (in 2007). But they put pressure on my family, too — especially my father. They would call him every day, and tell him they would take away my passport, that kind of thing."
That's a bit over the top, don't you think?
"You know what it's like?" wondered Krstic. "It's like the old communist system. The basketball federation is like that. You can't do anything, you have no rights. They don't respect your decision. The newspapers made up stories, it was just terrible." </div>
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What kind of bullsh*t is that? Serbia sounds awful.
Seriously, what a joke.
That didn't sit too well back home, it seems.
"Constant pressure," he said of his summer. "They tried to intimidate me, and tell me they would put me in the army. There were a lot of people acting like my friends, who really weren't. I kept telling them it was for just one year, that I would play (in 2007). But they put pressure on my family, too — especially my father. They would call him every day, and tell him they would take away my passport, that kind of thing."
That's a bit over the top, don't you think?
"You know what it's like?" wondered Krstic. "It's like the old communist system. The basketball federation is like that. You can't do anything, you have no rights. They don't respect your decision. The newspapers made up stories, it was just terrible." </div>
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What kind of bullsh*t is that? Serbia sounds awful.
Seriously, what a joke.
