page_title: List of people from Ukraine
section_title: Basketball
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Ukraine / Sport / Basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: Oleksij Pečerov of Washington Wizards against Los Angeles Lakers. Italiano: Oleksij Pečerov degli Washington Wizards contro i Los Angeles Lakers.
context_page_description: This is a list of individuals who were born and lived in territories currently in Ukraine, both ethnic Ukrainians and those of other ethnicities. Throughout Eastern European history, Ukrainian lands were ethnically and culturally diverse, with a number of other ethnic groups living among the Ukrainians. Originally united with Belarus and Muscovy under the state of Kievan Rus', a schism took place after the Mongol invasion, as the Muscovite lands stayed under Mongol/Tatar rule for another century and Ruthenian lands were taken over by the ascendant Duchy of Lithuania, as it helped Ruthenians drive out the Mongol invaders. During this time a language separate from Old East Slavic evolved on the territory of the progenitor Russian principality Muscovy, while a Ruthenian language continued evolving on the territory of central Kievan Rus', whose people were known as the Ruthenians. While Muscovy stayed under Mongol control for over a hundred years, it absorbed much Mongol vocabulary, thus separating modern Russian from modern Belarusian and Ukrainian.
context_section_description: Viacheslav Kravtsov, basketball player
  Oleksiy "Alex" Len, basketball player drafted 5th by the Phoenix Suns in 2013
  Stanislav Medvedenko, basketball player that won two NBA Finals championships in 2001 and 2002
  Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, college basketball player of the Kansas Jayhawks
  Oleksiy Pecherov, basketball player selected 18th by the Washington Wizards in 2006
  Vitaly Potapenko, basketball player drafted 12th by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1996
  Jerome Randle,  American-Ukrainian basketball club BC Žalgiris player
  Alexander Volkov, basketball player selected 134th by the Atlanta Hawks in 1986
caption: Oleksiy Pecherov
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