“Zenith” basketball player Sergei Karasev in an interview with , he said that the VTB United League has grown stronger thanks to the emergence of new clubs fighting for the title.
On May 15, Zenit basketball players lost to CSKA in the fifth game for the VTB United League bronze medal and lost the series with a score of 1–4. In the 2021/22 season, the Petersburgers became the United League champions for the first time in history. In the 2022/23 season finale, UNICS players also celebrated victory for the first time in history by defeating Lokomotiv Kuban (4-1 in the series).
– How would you rate the fact that last year’s finalists – CSKA and Zenit – fought for bronze this time?
— The VTB United League has really gotten stronger. UNICS and Lokomotiv-Kuban have shown this. All their matches were very interesting. But in general, basketball itself benefits from all of this in the first place.
It is clear that we want to stay on top, to repeat the success of last year. But for the league, a change of champion is not bad. Plus, everyone says it’s harder to stay at the top than to climb it. I repeat: next season we will do everything we can to come back. Although, if we were successful with UNICS, the chances of repeat success would be very high, Karasev told .
Live broadcasts of VTB United League matches were broadcast by and other holding channels, as well as sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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