Chairman of the CSR Board of Directors and Honorary Chairman of the VTB United League Sergei Ivanov in an interview with , he said that he has not seen the results of the work of Olympic reserve basketball schools, because not a single Russian basketball player plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
In the entire history of the NBA, 10 Russian basketball players have managed to play in the league. The last of them was center Timofey Mozgov, who left the Orlando Magic in 2019.
– None of the Russians, mind you, play in the NBA, although the NHL is a whole different story. I do not know who produces the Olympic reserve schools, but the results of their work are not visible. If promising guys appear, the clubs, not the national training system, are tied to that,” Ivanov said in an interview with .
Source : MatchTV
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