Spanish club Real Madrid point guard Yegor Demin, New Orleans Birmingham Squadron farm team shooting guard Pavel Savkov and Florida Atlantic University center Vlad Goldin are the closest Russians to entering National Basketball Association (NBA). , declared the Paris Nizhni Novgorod basketball player in an interview with Anton Ponkrachov.
Demin debuted in the main team of Real Madrid in May, Savkov became the sixth pick of the NBA G-League draft in October, Florida Atlantic University and Goldin lost to the University of San Diego State in the College League of America (NCAA) semifinals.
— Despite the suspension and politics, the last Russian in the NBA was Mozgov in 2019. Do you think it’s a problem that for almost five years none of our basketball players have been on the verge of leaving for the United States?
– Of course it’s bad, but it’s a complex system. We are excluded from international tournaments and, therefore, few recruiters come to Russia. When I was young at CSKA, American agents regularly studied and observed players in Russia.
Due to the current political situation, it will be easier to get drafted for guys who play in the NCAA (National Collegiate Sports Association of America – editor’s note “”) or in Europe. The three closest that are on the radar of scouts in the United States are Demin from Real Madrid, Savkov from the G-League and Goldin from the Student League, and they are worth waiting for in the NBA,” Ponkrashov said in an interview with Match.TV.
Source : MatchTV
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