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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 at Wright State University and was selected 12th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1996 NBA draft, also the last pick before Kobe Bryant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vitaly Potapenko has received more than 292,451 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Vitaly Potapenko is the 811th most popular basketball player, the 1,205th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Basketball Player.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 811 out of 1,757Before him are Sergei Monia, Monté Morris, Will Perdue, Nenad Krstić, Marcus Smart, and Mindaugas Žukauskas. After him are Allan Houston, Marcelinho Machado, Emma Meesseman, Mickaël Gelabale, Gordon Hayward, and Robin Lopez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 751Before him are Clarence Acuña, Mindaugas Žukauskas, Oksana Kazakova, Alessandro Pistone, Venetian Snares, and Rawson Marshall Thurber. After him are Ahmed Bukhatir, Marcelinho Machado, María José Rienda Contreras, Olga Budina, John Herdman, and Aitor López Rekarte.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 1,205 out of 1,365Before him are Alekseev (1993), Oleksandr Zubkov (1996), Mélovin (1997), Andreas Kotelnik (1977), Alexander Areshchenko (1986), and Tatiana Volosozhar (1986). After him are Inna Shevchenko (1990), Anhelina Kalinina (1997), Hrihoriy Misyutin (1970), Ruslan Honcharov (1973), Dariya Derkach (1993), and Yuriy Krivtsov (1979).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among basketball players born in Ukraine, Vitaly Potapenko ranks 5Before him are Anatoli Polivoda (1947), Alexander Belostenny (1959), Victor Khryapa (1982), and Slava Medvedenko (1979). After him are Kyrylo Fesenko (1986), Alex Len (1993), Sergiy Gladyr (1988), Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (1997), Oleksiy Pecherov (1985), Joel Bolomboy (1994), and Gao Shiyan (1996).