Ukrainian basketball player Oleksiy Len has set a national record

Oleksii Len

Center player Oleksiy Len has set a new Ukrainian record for the number of seasons spent in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

On the night of Friday, October 25, Len debuted in the new season NBA as part of the Sacramento Kings team. The Ukrainian played six minutes in the match against Minnesota (115:117) and scored three points.

Thus, Len began his 12th season in the NBA and became the record holder among Ukrainians, ahead of Vitaly Potapenko.

Third place in the rating is occupied by another current player of the NBA team from Ukraine, the defender of Utah Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk.

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Ukrainians in the NBA: number of seasons

• 1. Oleksiy Len (2013-present) – 12
• 2. Vitaly Potapenko (1996−2007) – 11
• 3−4. Svyatoslav Mykhailiuk (2018-present) – 7
• 3−4. Stanislav Medvedenko (2000−2007) – 7
• 5. Kirill Fesenko (2007−2012) – 5
• 6−7. Oleksandr Volkov (1989−1992) – 3
• 6−7. Oleksiy Pecherov (2007−2010) – 3
• 8. Vyacheslav Kravtsov (2012−2014) – 2
• 9. Dmitry Skapintsev (2023) – 1

Len has been playing in the NBA since 2013, he is spending his fourth full season with Sacramento. The center also played for Phoenix, Atlanta, Toronto and Washington.

In the 2022/23 season, Lent played 26 times in the NBA. The center averaged 1.7 points and 2.3 rebounds. Slightly more than half of the Ukrainian's field goals were accurate (53.3%).