Even though the threat of an invasion of Ukraine by Russia was very real, the brother of Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon initially planned to stay in Kyiv to fulfill his one-year contract. But after the dire nature of the email sank in, Drew Gordon and his wife decided to depart with their children Zayne, who turns 3 on Sunday, and 3-month-old Brody, who was born in Kyiv, and were lucky to find flights back to America on Feb. 14. “My advice to him was get your family out of a war that you don’t need to fight,” Aaron Gordon told Andscape.