During his fifteen years in the NBA, Dragic was a member of seven different teams: the Heat, Phoenix, Houston, Chicago, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and Toronto. He was selected as the league’s most improved player in 2013–14 and was a member of the All-NBA squad that season. In 2018, he made his only appearance as an All-Star.

“I have realized my ultimate ambition, and I am incredibly appreciative of all the individuals in my life who have made it possible for me to play for this long,” stated Dragic. The people who have always supported me in making my love of basketball a priority are my parents, Marinko and Mojca; my brother, Zoran; my children, Mateo and Vikorita; and their mother, Maja.

After the Paris Olympics end this summer, Dragic plans to celebrate his retirement in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Details about that event will presumably be revealed later this week.

In light of the fact that the 2017 EuroBasket victory is widely regarded as Slovenia’s greatest team sports moment, the 37-year-old Dragic has talked a lot in recent years about what it meant to him. Dragic finished the tournament with 35 points in the championship game victory over rival Serbia, the country of his father’s birth. He averaged 22.6 points and 5.1 assists in the nine games played. His mother’s native country is Slovenia.

After that tournament, he was hailed as a national hero, bestowed with one of Slovenia’s highest civilian accolades, and moved to tears when presented with a shirt by the mother of one of his idols, the late player Drazen Petrovic.

Dallas Mavericks player Luka Doncic was a young guard on the 2017 Slovenian squad that Dragic coached.

When rumors of Dragic’s impending retirement started to circulate throughout Europe on Saturday, Doncic remarked, “It was an amazing run for him.” I’m delighted we got to play together, and I learned a lot about him, particularly about his leadership throughout that tournament.

In Miami, where he and his family still own properties, Dragic was well-liked. The Heat shocked Dragic in his home country of Slovenia in 2020 when he was a free agent by placing billboards there with phrases like “Your second family is always with you.” As a result of the gesture, which Dragic claimed was extremely moving, he swiftly resigned from the Heat.

In the 2008 draft, San Antonio selected the left-handed Dragic with the 45th overall choice. In his professional career, he averaged 13.3 points and 4.7 assists. Twice, he scored 20 points in a season, one with Phoenix in 2013–14 and the other with the Heat in 2016–17.

He was a part of Miami’s 2020 NBA Finals run that ended in the bubble at Walt Disney World due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dragic’s foot injury early in the series limited his playing time to just two games, which severely harmed Miami’s hopes of winning the championship.

When the Heat lost the series against the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, he asked a reporter, “Can you do something for me?” Inform the fans that I apologize and that we truly tried. I tried really hard.