«Astana» will hold next away game of VTB United League against «Khimki»

18.10.2019, 14:00    Views: 651
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The Presidential Basketball Club «Astana» will spend in Moscow region, where the team will meet with the leaders of the VTB United League BC «Khimki».

«Khimki» - is a Russian professional men's basketball club from the Moscow Region, founded in 1997. In addition to participating in the VTB United League, they play in the Euroleague.

  • Achievements:
  • Silver medalist of the Russian Championship — 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Russian Championship Bronze Medalist — 2007
  • Winner of the Cup of Russia — 2008
  • VTB United League Champion — 2010/2011
  • Silver medalist of VTB United League Promo Cup — 2008
  • Silver medalist of VTB United League — 2014/2015, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019
  • Finalist of the ULEB European Cup — 2008/2009
  • Finalist of the European Cup — 2005/2006
  • Member of the Final Four of the FIBA Euroleague — 2004/2005
  • Member of the “Final Four” VTB United League — 2009/2010
  • European Cup Winner — 2011/2012, 2014/2015


The history of «Khimki» has recently exceeded 20 years, and the Moscow Region club during this time has become one of the best clubs, not only in the Russian Federation but in Europe as well. The team, as in the last season, is led by Rimas Kurtinaitis, the famous player and coach, who in the last season after three years break, returned to the role of head coach of «Khimki».

The roster of «Khimki» this season deserves a separate article, and Russian publishing sources rightly published news under the headings “Khimki already won the upcoming VTB United League season on paper. But it’s worth starting with a comparison with last season's roster and first of all pay attention to the player who has been associated with «Khimki» in recent seasons, namely one of the best Russian players, the Best European Championship shooting guard in 2017, the Best shooting guard of the last two seasons of VTB United League … and yes, Alexey Shved has continued his career at «Khimki». Also, the Moscow Region club re-signed a contract with one of the key imports last season, Latvian Janis Timma. In addition, the following Russian players extended the contracts: veteran Sergey Monya, experienced Vyacheslav Zaitsev and Yegor Vyaltsev, and young Maxim Barashkov. Perhaps the biggest loss in the offseason was the American Jordan Mickey, who was one of the leaders of «Khimki» last season, and the Americans Antonio Crocker, Malcolm Thomas, Charles Jenkins, and Russian Andrey Zubkov also left the team.

Well, now about newcomers. The Swedish player Jonas Zherebko is one of Khimki’s major acquisitions this season; the Swede spent the last 10 seasons in the NBA, playing for «Pistons», «Celtics», «Jazz» and «Warriors». Sergei Karasev has spent the last three seasons in St. Petersburg, but before that, he managed to play in the NBA for the “Cavaliers” and “Nets”. American Devin Booker and Serb Stefan Jovic moved to «Khimki» from the team of Bavaria, with whom they twice became champions of Germany in the past two seasons. Anthony Gill is an American who spent his first professional season after the American Student League at the Turkish «Yesilgiresun Bilder» team. Russian Timofey Mozgov, one of the modern legends of Russian basketball, and a player who began his career in «Khimki», and then played in the NBA for the «Knicks», «Nuggets», «Cavaliers», «Lakers» and «Nets». Jeremy Evans, is not new in the Moscow Region club, he played earlier at «Khimki» in the 2016/2017 season, but he also played in the NBA for «Jazz», «Mavericks» and «Hawks», and Latvian Dairis Bertans spent last season in the NBA for the “New Orleans Pelicans”.
 


The history of the games: “Astana” and “Khimki” met on the court 21 times, of which 19 games were held as part of the VTB United League. “Astana” was able to win only three victories, two of which the capital team celebrated for quite some time; in the seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13, and the last Kazakhstan victory took place in March 2018.

Tournament standings: “Khimki” had the most games since the start of the season — four, and won all the matches, which is why it currently occupies the top spot in the VTB United League standings. “Astana”, with one victory and one defeat, is in the middle of the table.

Interesting Facts:

  • The general manager of “Astana”, Valery Tikhonenko, and the head coach of “Khimki”, Rimas Kurtinaitis, played together in the USSR team and have achieved the following results: gold of the European Championship -1985, bronze of the European Championship 1989, silver of the World Championship 1986 and gold of the Olympic Games 1988.
  • “Khimki” has never lost to “Astana” at home, even though a couple of years ago, on October 2017, this almost happened.


The match will take place on Sunday, October 20 in Khimki at the arena of the Basketball Center of the Moscow Region, beginning at 18:00, Nur-Sultan time. Online broadcast of the match will be available on our website in the Match Center section.

Detailed information about the tournament, standings, the schedule and match results are published in the Tournaments section.



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