The Sacramento center last played for the national team in 2018.
Center Sacramento Kings Alexey Len joined national team of Ukraine in Turkey, which is preparing for the qualifying matches for World Cup 2023 and EuroBasket 2022.
For Oleksiy, the upcoming matches will be the first in the Ukrainian national team since 2018, when he played in the 2019 World Cup qualifiers. Then our team defeated Spain at home and lost to Montenegro on the road.
According to Svyatoslav Mikhailyuk, Len was unable to join the national team for the July matches due to health problems.
Recall that now the Ukrainian national team is in Turkey, where it participates in a friendly tournament. In the first match, the team of Ainars Bagatskis lost to the hosts (70:96).
In Turkey, our team has two more matches planned. On August 12, Ukraine will play with Poland, and on Saturday, August 13, with Slovenia.
After the Turkish training camp, the team will go to Finland. In Helsinki, another test match with the hosts is planned.
At the end of August, the Ukrainian national team will play the first matches of the second group round of the 2023 World Cup qualification, in which they will face the teams of Italy (August 24) and Iceland (August 27). On September 2, the blue-yellows will start at EuroBasket 2022.
Source: Sportarena
