[15] However, they would lose second-year star Kenny Anderson for the remainder of the regular season to a wrist injury after 55 games.
[22][23][24] Despite losing ten of their final eleven games, the team finished in third place in the Atlantic Division with a 43–39 record.
[25] Dražen Petrović and Derrick Coleman were both selected to the All-NBA Third Team, as Petrović led the team in scoring averaging 22.3 points per game, and Coleman averaged 20.7 points, 11.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game.
[33][34][35][36] Following the season, tragedy struck as Petrović was killed in a car accident in Germany at the age of 28 on June 7, 1993; Petrović was a passenger in a car driven by his girlfriend, which lost control and crashed head-on into a truck on a rain-drenched highway near Munich, Germany.
Shortly before his death, Petrović last played for the Croatian national basketball team in the European Championships in Wroclaw, Poland.