Before becoming the greatest Ukrainian basketball player of all-time (sorry Vitaly Potapenko, Viacheslav Kravtsov – who actually played for the Suns – Slava Medvedenko, Kyrylo Fesenko, Oleksiy Pecherov, Joel Bolomboy, and Pooh Jeter), Alex Len was an avid gymnast. In fact, if you played NBA2K14, somebody on the announcing crew mentioned that fact every. single. game.
Len was trained by Alexei Stepanenko who trained Olympic gold medalist Ihor Korobchynskyi. Believe it or not, I am no expert when it comes to gymnastics. However, with Len’s 7’1″ frame, doing cartwheels and jumping jacks would look pretty impressive for a border-line giant.