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Vitaly Potapenko

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Vitalii Mykolayovych Potapenko ( poh-TAH-peng-koh, Ukrainian: Віталій Миколайович Потапенко; born March 21, 1975) is a Ukrainian professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wright State Raiders and was selected 12th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1996 NBA draft, also the last pick before Kobe Bryant. Nicknamed "the Ukraine Train", he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the Sacramento Kings of the NBA, as well as MMT Estudiantes in the Spanish ACB. Since retiring as a player, Potapenko has been serving as an assistant coach for several teams, among them the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, the Indiana Pacers, the Dakota Wizards, and the Santa Cruz Warriors and later as an assistant director of player development for the Cleveland Cavaliers, helping them win their first ever NBA championship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Vitaly Potapenko is the 1,010th most popular basketball player (down from 811th in 2024), the 1,331st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 1,205th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 1,010 out of 1,757. Before him are Kevin Knox, Kostas Vasileiadis, Will Solomon, Lonzo Ball, Gordon Hayward, and Giacomo Galanda. After him are Franz Wagner, Anna Arkhipova, Joe Ingles, Milica Dabović, Emma Meesseman, and Alba Torrens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 1,025. Before him are Maria-Joëlle Conjungo, Craig Moore, Obeid Al-Dosari, Isabelle Blanc, Michael Schur, and Giacomo Galanda. After him are Blaise Kouassi, Åsa Svensson, Satoru Suzuki, Simon Whitfield, Edgar Aguilera, and Akinori Kosaka.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 1,331 out of 1,365. Before him are Iryna Lishchynska (1976), Yana Dementyeva (1978), Iryna Tsilyk (1982), Boris Alterman (1970), Nikocado Avocado (1992), and Alekseev (1993). After him are Vladislav Ternavsky (1969), Anna Fedorova (1990), Eduard Sobol (1995), Yuliana Fedak (1983), Oleksandr Khyzhniak (1995), and Andrei Volokitin (1986).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among basketball players born in Ukraine, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 7. Before him are Alex Len (1993), Anatoli Polivoda (1947), Alexander Belostenny (1959), Victor Khryapa (1982), Slava Medvedenko (1979), and Kyrylo Fesenko (1986). After him are Sergiy Gladyr (1988), Joel Bolomboy (1994), Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (1997), Oleksiy Pecherov (1985), and Gao Shiyan (1996).

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