VTB reveals All-Star Game nominees

2018-01-09T15:45:56+00:00 2018-01-09T15:47:40+00:00.

Alex Madrid

09/Jan/18 15:45

Eurohoops.net

Alexey Shved and Sergey Karasev led Russian Stars team while Astana’s Justin Carter was the most voted in World Stars team.

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

As the league announced, fan voting for the VTB All-Star Game, which began on December 6, closed yesterday at noon. Based on the results of the vote, the League has released the 66 nominees for the 2018 All-Star Game, which will be held on February 17 in St. Petersburg and features a Russian Stars vs World Stars format.

League general director Ilona Korstin:
– The first stage–the fan vote–is complete. We received more than 200,000 votes on Facebook and Vkontakte, almost three times more than last season! It’s wonderful to see that interest in the All-Star Game is growing. Russian fans weren’t the only ones to actively support their favorite players; for example, there were a lot of votes from Kazakhstan and Belarus. Alexey Shved and Sergey Karasev took the top two spots on the Russian Stars team as expected. Nizhny Novgorod’s Petr Gubanov, who’s having an excellent season, came in third. On the World Stars team, Astana’s Justin Carter, one of the League’s top scorers, was the surprise top vote-getter. CSKA’s De Colo was second and UNICS’s Quino Colom finished third.

Leading Russian and foreign journalists will participate in the second stage of voting. They will be asked to create the Russian Stars and World Stars rosters, which will each feature 10 players. One important condition of the process is that no more than two players from a single club can be on a team. Like last season, in addition to 20 media outlets, two highly-regarded TV commentators, Vladimir Gomelsky and Roman Skvortsov, will have a vote.

Once the voting is complete, we will release the rosters. On February 5, the head coaches selected by the League will name the starting lineups.

Nominees to play in the All-Star Game:

% – percentage of votes cast on social media for the most popular Russian and international players on each team.

Avtodor
Player Position %
1 Artem Klimenko Center 63.5
2 Artem Zabelin Forward 15.8
3 Maxim Sheleketo Forward 15.2
Player Position %
1 Coty Clarke Forward 44.2
2 Micah Downs Forward 19.5
3 Justin Robinson Guard 16.7
Astana
Player Position %
1 Justin Carter Guard 36.6
2 Rustam Yergali Guard 26.7
3 Larry Gordon Forward 9.5
VEF
Player Position %
1 Mareks Mejeris Forward 36.8
2 Ilya Gromovs Center 12.6
3 Alex Perez Guard 8.0
Enisey
Player Position %
1 Denis Zakharov Guard 39.0
2 Alexander Gudumak Forward 15.7
3 Vasily Zavoruev Guard 11.5
Player Position %
1 Anthony Hilliard Guard 42.5
2 Vitali Liutych Forward 24.4
3 Suleiman Braimoh Forward 18.3
Zenit
Player Position %
1 Sergey Karasev Forward 73.8
2 Evgeny Valiev Forward 9.0
3 Evgeny Voronov Guard 8.0
Player Position %
1 Drew Gordon Forward 43.8
2 Marko Simonovic Forward 14.4
3 Scottie Reynolds Guard 11.6
Kalev
Player Position %
1 Isaiah Briscoe Guard 29.7
2 Thomas van der Mars Center 11.5
3 Bojan Subotic Forward 10.6
Lokomotiv-Kuban
Player Position %
1 Dmitry Khvostov Guard 42.9
2 Dmitry Kulagin Guard 40.2
3 Pavel Antipov Forward 6.8
Player Position %
1 Ryan Broekhoff Forward 31.5
2 Frank Elegar Center 30.8
3 Mardy Collins Forward 13.1
Nizhny Novgorod
Player Position %
1 Petr Gubanov Center 27.2
2 Alexander Zakharov Forward 11.9
3 Ivan Strebkov Guard 11.5
Player Position %
1 Stefan Jelovac Forward
2 Vladimir Veremeenko Forward
3 Jake Odum Guard
PARMA
Player Position %
1 Ivan Ukhov Guard 64.9
2 Alexander Vinnik Center 12.2
3 Artem Yakovenko Forward 4.9
Player Position %
1 Codi Miller-McIntyre Guard 71.5
2 Frank Gaines Guard 11.3
3 Tre’ McLean Forward 6.6
UNICS
Player Position %
1 Anton Ponkrashov Guard 43.7
2 Evgeny Kolesnikov Guard 18.5
3 Grigory Shukhovtsov Center 18.0
Player Position %
1 Quino Colom Guard 53.6
2 Stephane Lasme Forward 14.3
3 Jamar Smith Guard 12.9
Khimki
Player Position %
1 Alexey Shved Guard 72.7
2 Andrey Zubkov Forward 9.0
3 Sergey Monia Forward 7.1
Player Position %
1 Stefan Markovic Guard 27.8
2 Anthony Gill Forward 21.0
3 James Anderson Guard 20.4
Tsmoki-Minsk
Player Position %
1 Chris Czerapowicz Forward 28.6
2 Aliaksandr Kudrautsau Guard 15.0
3 Devon Saddler Guard 9.7
CSKA
Player Position %
1 Andrey Vorontsevich Forward 33.3
2 Nikita Kurbanov Forward 27.9
3 Mikhail Kulagin Guard 15.3
Player Position %
1 Nando De Colo Guard 50.5
2 Sergio Rodriguez Guard 22.3
3 Kyle Hines Center 10.3

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