Luke_Mellow at Truth About It.net (2011-2019)

Lukas Kuba

Czech Correspondent

Lukas is TAI’s Czech correspondent, a.k.a. all things Jan Vesely and Tomas Satoransky-related. He was born and raised in Czechoslovakia, which he still considers his home country, even though it was split into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Lukas has been monitoring Czech media coverage of Jan Vesely since the NBA Draft 2011. He’s a longtime San Antonio Spurs fan (Tim Duncan and David Robinson are his favorite players ever), a basketball junkie (he once traveled six hours by train to watch a random NBA game in a Czech sports TV studio), and a founder of  the unofficial Czechoslovak-American Basketball Hall of Fame Facebook page (John Havlicek! Jeff Hornacek! Bob Netolicky!).

The Washington Wizards have, obviously, grabbed a tiny piece of Lukas’ heart over the last few years. After the 2011 Draft, he embarked on a ‘Honza-to-the-world’ journey, reviving his dead blog with a translated post of an interview that Vesely gave to the Czech media. By the dawn of the morning in Washington, D.C., the DC Sports Bog’s Dan Steinberg unearthed the post and wrote about it. And so began the continued coverage of a fellow called “Honza.” A couple of weeks later, Lukas found himself as the Czech correspondent for Truth About It.net. And as long as Czech-mates Jan “The Airwolf” and Saty are Wizards, Lukas’ unbridled passion for them and NBA basketball (and translations!) will continue.