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“I went from being a straight-D student in Ukraine to a straight-A-plus student in America,” he says. Danyliv called the education he received “bogus.” It was one of those pop-up schools that was intended to build an all-star basketball team. Danyliv’s notable teammates included former UConn center Amida Brimah and current Washington Commanders tight end Sammis Reyes. His team at Westlake Prep was stacked with talent, a mix of international and American players that had been recruited by Rumeal Robinson, who starred on Michigan’s 1989 national championship team.

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All he needed was the money, plus a plane ticket.ĭanyliv’s father, who was on board with the move, got him his ticket, and he arrived in Miami in the fall of 2007.

Karebin told Danyliv he could get him a scholarship to a prep school in Florida for a fee of $500. Then in 2007, a former Minnesota Timberwolves scout named Boris Karebin came to Kyiv to scout some of the city’s best players and offer the chance to help them get to America. At 13, he played point guard for Ukraine’s Under-15 junior national team. At 11, he joined the youth club for BC Kyiv, a now-defunct franchise that was one of the best in Ukraine at the time. He’d spend hours trying to mimic Iverson, perfecting his right-to-left crossover.ĭanyliv was a good player himself. But that first edition of “Ankle Breakers” took his passion for the game to another level. Eventually, little Danyliv was playing with the much-older players.

His grandpa, who played professionally in Italy, planted the seeds when he was 6 and would drop him off at a nearby college practice. Danyliv already loved basketball when he was introduced to Iverson. Danyliv didn’t have access to any games in realtime, but he became obsessed with the stars in those videos. This was the streetball age of hoops, when the creativity on the pavement hit the NBA like never before. I was like, I want to come to America.”ĭanyliv was one of many in a generation of overseas players who fell in love with a game that had turned international.

It was those images of Iverson about nine minutes into the DVD that captured the imagination of a 12-year-old boy from Ukraine. Then comes Allen Iverson, who had the best crossover in the league and the bravado to even put Michael Jordan on skates. Stephon Marbury serves as the narrator and first ankle-breaker.

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In 2004 the first volume of “NBA Street Series: Ankle Breakers” series hit shelves. WORK🎒🏀 ♬ original sound – Peter Danyliv How did a guy who played one year of junior-college basketball - and sparingly at that - go on to train NBA hopefuls and become a social media star? Danyliv might have grown up in Kyiv, but he is living out the quintessential American dream. “He saw more in my game than a lot of people saw,” Braun says.

Christian Braun, the 21st pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, credits Danyliv for his ascension last season as a junior for the national champion Jayhawks. He was at the McDonald’s game to watch two of the five-star incoming freshmen he had trained: Duke’s Mark Mitchell and KU’s Gradey Dick. He has also trained some of the top players in the Midwest, including former Iowa star Luka Garza and nearly the entire Kansas basketball team. Danyliv has more than 1.6 million followers on his TikTok and Instagram accounts, where he posts instructional clips. You may not have heard of Danyliv, but chances are your favorite college basketball player has. “To see him be a public figure within that space, I thought was amazing.” People were wanting to get photos with him,” says Brandon Walker, the former head of grassroots marketing for Adidas.