Born into a family of engineers, Kukoc demonstrated great athletic talent from an early age, but he only began to play basketball at the age of 15, before playing football and table tennis, and won the junior table tennis championship.
In the second game of the group stage of the 1992 Olympics, the American Dream team faced Croatia led by Kukoc, jordan Pippen decided to give Kukoc a little color to see, taking turns to watch the European magicians, and finally Kukoc only scored 4 points plus 7 turnovers.
Kukoc has a big heart and has scored key goals on multiple occasions. In the third game of the 1994 Eastern Conference semifinals, Pippen refused to board the pitch in the last 1.8 seconds because the Zen master decided to give the last shot to Kukoc.
The NBA Bulls dynasty of the '90s had three people who could jump dunks from the free throw line, and Tony Kukocchi was one of them.
Kukoc is Jordan when he wants the ball when he dares not to give the ball to his man, in a game not long after arriving at the Bulls, Jordan twice shouted for the ball in the low position, Kukoc ignored it, directly raised his hand is three points, which made Jordan a little angry, and afterwards Kukoc explained in fluent English that his English was not very good at the time, and he did not understand what Jordan said.
Kukoc loves golf and spends a few meetings at the golf course with Joe boss every year, claiming that his golf skills are much better than Jordan's.