# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitaly-potapenko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:59.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vitaly-potapenko"
name: "Vitaly Potapenko"
slug: "vitaly-potapenko"
description: "Vitalii Mykolayovych Potapenko 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."
tagline: "Ukrainian basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vitaly_Potapenko_in_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1975-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.15205866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Witalij Potapenko"
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    title: "Vitaly Potapenko"
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    title: "Vitaly Potapenko"
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    title: "Witalij Potapenko"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump