Ask a devoted Razorback basketball fan, “who is Arkansas’ most famous player from Europe?”
Davor Rimac is the quick (and easy) answer.
The Croatian actually was a part of the fabric of Arkansas before ever stepping foot inside Barnhill or Bud Walton Arena.
“One of my dad’s players, David Brown, on the team he coached in Switzerland, played for Coach (Nolan Richardson) at Tulsa and so my dad was aware of that and I came over here and went to tennis and basketball camps on campus,” Rimac said.
Eventually it sunk in that he wanted to be a part of American culture and decided to go to high school at Fayetteville and actually lived with Richardson his junior year.