Vitaly Potapenko
Ukrainian basketball player
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Born 1975 · age 51
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Updated 2026-06-16
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.
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- Sacramento Kings2006
- Wright State Raiders men's basketball1994–1996
- BC Budivelnyk
- Boston Celtics
- Seattle SuperSonics
- CB Estudiantes
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