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He had his best season in 2003-04 when he started 38 games in place of injured Hall of Famer Karl Malone, and averaged 8.3 points and 5.0 rebounds. Medvedenko joined the Lakers in the 2000-01 season. I hope I have ideal model in my mind to change Ukrainian sport.” “Ten years in the United States, I saw how it works. “After the victory, we will definitely return to that question of quality changes in sport,” he said. He was 11th on the election list and his party only managed to win nine seats.īeyond his humanitarian efforts during the war, Medvedenko has long-term goals to help his country. Medvedenko was a candidate for Kyiv City Council in the 2020 election. I'm happy I don't have a chance to shoot somebody. “I shoot it a couple times, not at people. I'm not the best solider, I'm not the best shooter, but I can give them support,” he said, adding that he carried an AK-47. “We were defending our neighborhood, doing checkpoints and duty patrol. Medvedenko has served in Ukraine's territorial defense forces during the war. They not even stop playing they are used to it.” Sometimes it’s three or four times a day,” he said. “After they stay for 1 1/2 months, they were all the time calling me and asking, ‘Papa, can we come home? We want to be with you and Momma,’” he recalled.įive months into the war, Medvedenko has reunited his family in Kyiv. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Medvedenko sent his children to live with their grandmother in another part of the country. The 43-year-old is married with two daughters, ages 16 and 11, and a 10-year-old son. “As soon as you cross the border and see how people live normal life, it's a different world.” You’re so used to that kind of pressure,” he said. “In Ukraine, you’re just feeling it’s war, rockets, air alerts. Medvedenko spoke from Warsaw, Poland, where he staged a sold out charity basketball game to raise money for Ukrainian refugees who crossed the border to escape the war. After that, I just say I have to sell them to show people leadership, to help my Ukrainian people to live better, to help kids.” “In this moment I just decided, ‘Why do I need these rings if they’re just sitting in my safe?’” Medvedenko said. Medvedenko said he decided to sell the rings after going to the roof of one of the tallest buildings in his Kyiv neighborhood and watching rockets launched by Russian forces streak through the night sky. The Laguna Niguel, California-based company estimates both rings will raise at least $100,000. The auction runs from Wednesday through Aug. In Ukraine, we have winter and kids need to play inside.” Sports gyms are going to be last in the line to fix it. “Our country, they need a lot of money to fix the schools. “We want to restore gyms because the Russian army bombed more than a hundred schools,” he told The Associated Press by phone on Sunday. Its goal is to support Ukrainian children by restoring the sports infrastructure of the war-torn country’s schools and launching a network of social sports clubs.

SCP Auctions is donating the entire final sale price of both rings to Medvedenko’s Fly High Foundation. Medvedenko was a power forward on the Lakers’ championship teams in 2001 and ’02, playing alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal.

#JOHNNY WINTER AUCTION FREE#

Please sign up to our free newsletter to receive exciting news about music memorabilia auctions.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former Los Angeles Lakers player Slava Medvedenko is selling his two NBA championship rings to raise money for his native Ukraine. Most of his guitars are owned by his estate and only a handful have ever appeared at auction. The record for a guitar owned by Vaughan is $623,000, set for his 'Lenny' Stratocaster at Christie's in 2004. Vaughan played it during his stint with Paul Ray and the Cobras in Texas between 1975-1977. With the Lazer I get both.'Ī 1966-1967 belonging to Stevie Ray Vaughan sold for $80,000. I can put the same effort into a Gibson and get back twice as much. If I pull the strings, I don't get as much out of it as I put into it. I like the sound of a strat, but just can't play one. Winter explained what he liked about the Lazer: 'It's really the closest thing I've found to sounding like a Strat and feeling like a Gibson. The present lot is a custom version built specially for him and featuring a single coil in the neck and a split humbucker. He began playing the Lazer in the 1980s after its creator, Mark Erlewine, offered him a prototype backstage after a show. Johnny Winter was a legendary rock guitarist Winter made his name in the US club circuit of the 1960s with his blistering covers of classic blues songs. Rock guitarist Johnny Winter's iconic custom White Lazer led an auction of guitars at Guernsey's New York on February 27, achieving $180,000.

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