NBA Draft Top-30 Pick Has a Belarusian Father: Grew up in Poverty, Sold Motorcycle for Son's Development
There have never been Belarusian athletes in the world's strongest basketball league, but now the son of an emigrant from Minsk — 23-year-old Alex Karaban — has made it there, Tribuna reports . He has become a star of US college basketball.
The NBA Draft top-30 was announced — and 23-year-old small forward Alex Karaban was selected at number 29. Cleveland made the pick, but by agreement with Sacramento, to whom the rights to the player were immediately transferred. Karaban's new team was an outsider in the Western Conference last season, sharing last place. On the other hand, it's easier to break through in a weaker team.