Teams’ head coaches in All-Star Game in Moscow, on February 14 will be Evgeny Pashutin and Xavi Pascual.
Lokomotiv-Kuban’s coach will head All-Stars Russia, and Zenit’s coach will head All-Stars World.
Russian Stars Team Head Coach Evgeny Pashutin:
– It’s a great honor for me to represent Loko as Russian Stars head coach on All-Star Game! Basketball is our life and we want to see the crowd amazed with the show. Bright dunks, drives and threes, flashy assists, powerful blocks are the most spectacular game components, and that night there will be lots of them.
World Stars Team Head Coach Xavi Pascual:
– I would like to say it’s a great joy for me to participate in this celebration of basketball as a head coach of World stars at the VTB League All-star game.
It is a good opportunity for players, coaches, and most important for the fans to enjoy one game with all these great players from all teams. VTB League is a very competitive League, and I hope all basketball courts will be full of basketball fans soon.
All-Star Game final rosters:
Russian Stars: Alexey Shved (Khimki), Nikita Mikhailovskii (Avtodor), Mikhail Kulagin (Enisey), Viacheslav Zaitcev (Khimki), Evgenii Baburin (Nizhny Novgorod), Vitaly Fridzon (Zenit), Anton Astapkovich (Nizhny Novgorod), Nikita Kurbanov, Joel Bolomboy (both – CSKA), Andrei Zubkov (Zenit), Stanislav Ilnitskiy (Lokomotiv-Kuban), Semen Antonov (CSKA).
World Stars: Mike James (CSKA), Isaiah Canaan (UNICS), Adas Juskevicius (PARMA), Kevin Pangos (Zenit), Mantas Kalnietis (Lokomotiv-Kuban), Jamar Smith (UNICS), Marcus Keene (Kalev), Mindaugas Kuzminskas (Lokomotiv-Kuban), Jordan Mickey (Khimki), Drew Gordon (Avtodor/Lokomotiv-Kuban), Mateusz Ponitka (Zenit), Tornike Shengelia (CSKA).
