Bronze medalist at the Olympic Games as a member of the Russian national basketball team Anton Ponkrachov during a conversation with , he highlighted the close competition and high level of competition in the VTB United League.
CSKA leads the United League standings, Zenit St. Petersburg is second and Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar is third.
— I like the way the United League championship is going. Lots of good matches, very close championship. Except for two or three teams, everyone else is killed in matches against each other.
— Despite the absence of our teams in European competitions, is the level of the championship increasing?
— This is a very complex subject. Eurocups bring extra motivation and extra incentive to teams and players, so it is probably impossible to say that the championship is growing. It’s just that all the teams have progressed and learned how to play basketball,” Ponkrashov told .
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