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One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Kyrylo Fesenko: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you own something he signed — or you know who might — there is a note at the foot of this page.
Everything about the Dnipropetrovsk center came oversized — 7'1", a size 18 shoe, a 7'4" wingspan. Drafted 38th in 2007 by Philadelphia and traded to Utah, Fesenko debuted that November against the Lakers when Boozer and Okur were hurt, posting 6 points and 7 rebounds, and spent four seasons in the Jazz organization while shuttling to the Utah Flash.
The itinerary afterward reads like an atlas: Donetsk, Wroclaw, the D-League, Saratov, Cantu, Monaco, Avellino, Iran's Sanaye Hormozgan, and finally Al-Nasr of Libya's top division — a Ukrainian giant who kept finding somewhere in the world to play.
HOW HE CAME & WENTPhiladelphia took him 38th overall in 2007 and traded him to Utah at once. He signed a three-year deal that August. A fractured right thumb ended his fourth season early and the Jazz let his one-year contract expire in 2011.
- Full name
- Kyrylo Anatoliyovych Fesenko
- Utah Jazz tenure
- 2007–11
- Position
- Center
- Born
- 1986, Dnipro, Ukraine
- Height
- 7′1″ (216 cm)
- Weight
- 287 lb (130 kg)
- Drafted
- 2007, 2nd round (No. 38), Philadelphia
A card. A photo. A program. A page from an old autograph book. Anything he put his name on.
You do not need to know what it is. Take a photo with your phone and send it to me. I will tell you what you have, for free, whether or not anything comes of it. I pay the postage both ways. I answer every message myself, usually the same day.
With the Jazz
KYRYLO FESENKO · 2007–11 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007–08 | UTA | 9 | 7.8 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | .375 | — | .500 |
| 2008–09 | UTA | 21 | 7.4 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | .583 | — | .333 |
| 2009–10 | UTA | 49 | 8.3 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | .547 | .000 | .421 |
| 2010–11 | UTA | 53 | 8.6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | .440 | .000 | .391 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 4 SEASONS | 132 | 8.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | .498 | .000 | .398 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
KYRYLO FESENKO · 9 NOTES- One of very few Ukrainian-born players to appear in the NBA.
- Became a fan favourite in Utah and later a broadcaster.
- Wears a size 18 shoe and has the same nine-foot-four standing reach as Greg Oden.
- Turned down a multiyear offer from Houston in 2010 to re-sign with the Jazz for one more year.
- His travels after the NBA included league stops in Iran and Libya.
- American broadcasters were handed his name spelled out phonetically as Kuh-rill Feh-sink-o.
- The 2015-16 season took him through three countries, playing in Russia, Italy and Monaco in a single campaign.
- He broke his right thumb guarding Paul Millsap at a practice in Los Angeles in 2011, and an X-ray at Staples Center looked clean before later tests in Salt Lake City found the fracture.
- Asked about the injury that ended his season, Fesenko said 'Probably this is my catchphrase, but you never know what going to happen tomorrow.'