Just wow... https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/02/28/college-basketball-standout-ukraine-stranded/ In an interview Sunday with basketballnews.com, Creek told former NBA player Etan Thomas that he was speaking from a bomb shelter in the basement of his apartment complex, where some neighbors had turned wooden pallets into makeshift beds. “I’ve been going back and forth between my apartment and the bomb shelter that they put me in to be safe, because the war is going on around our area,” the 31-year-old said. “So we just have to be as safe as possible, keep our heads held low.” Creek claimed he was the last American left of the several dozen on Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague teams. He blamed the situation on his team, MBC Mykolaiv, which he said has not fully paid him since he signed in December. Mykolaiv officials did not take the threat of a Russian invasion seriously, he said, and looked at him as someone trying to wriggle out of his contract rather than flee a potential war zone. Creek added that when Russian forces moved in Thursday, “there was no plan” to help him escape. The team has been withholding his official letter of clearance, Creek said, which basketball players in Europe need to be able to sign in other countries. In addition, his relative lack of pay made it difficult for him to make flight and travel arrangements.
