“War is a desperate time.” Former NBA players Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Alexander Volkov have worked together, jon_wertheim reports, to help young basketball players in Ukraine escape Russia’s attack:
These Two Former NBA Players Won Gold for the USSR; Now They’re Trying to Save Kids From Russian Attack
Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images ; Scott Cunningham/NBAE/Getty Images; Courtesy of Sarunas Marciulonis Mostly, though, since the beginning of the war, he has been concerned for his kids. Not his two daughters, who are safely living outside the war zone, one in New York and another in Atlanta, but for his basketball players. Since leaving the NBA and returning to Kyiv in the 1990s, Volkov has funded a youth basketball academy filled with about 90 Ukrainian kids and teenagers with ambitions of playing college and professional ball. With the country under attack, danger lurked everywhere.
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