VTB United League reveals All-Star Game Nominees

2019-01-17T14:46:56+00:00 2019-01-18T12:44:16+00:00.

Giannis Askounis

17/Jan/19 14:46

Eurohoops.net

The fan voting process ahead of the VTB All-Star game ended and here are the 66 nominees for the February 17th match.

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

VTB United League announced the 66 nominees for the 2018 All-Star Game, which will be played on February 17th in Saint-Petersburg. The fans picked out the 66 players, before leading Russian and foreign journalists cut them down to the twenty players that will be featured in the Russian Stars and World Stars teams. No more than two players from a single club will be able to be part of one All-Star team.

League general director Ilona Korstin said: “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”.

Like last year, twenty media outlets, two highly-regarded TV commentators, Vladimir Gomelsky and Roman Skvortsov, will participate in the second stage of voting, which will create the 10-player rosters for the Russian Stars and the World Stars, Following the second stage, on February 5th the head coaches selected by the League will name the starting lineups.

Nominees to play in the All-Star Game:

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

Avtodor
Player Position %
1 Artem Zabelin Center 60.1
2 Nikita Mikhailovsky Forward 34.4
3 Alexander Petenev Forward 6.6
Player Position %
1 Perrin Buford Forward 44.1
2 Trae Golden Guard 29.4
3 Tre’ McLean Forward 28.4
Astana
Player Position %
1 Anthony Clemmons Guard 41.2
2 J.J. O’Brien Forward 24.6
3 Alexander Zhigulin Forward 24.6
VEF
Player Position %
1 Andrejs Grazulis Forward 40.0
2 Kristaps Janicenoks Guard 18.7
3 Steve Zack Center 17.8
Enisey
Player Position %
1 Denis Zakharov Guard 50.1
2 Artem Komissarov Forward 30.5
3 Igor Kanygin Forward 10.6
Player Position %
1 DeAngelo Harrison Guard 46.3
2 Martins Meiers Center 27.9
3 John Roberson Guard 25.9
Zielona Gora
Player Position %
1 Markel Starks Guard 30.2
2 MIchal Sokolowski Forward 24.6
3 Darko Planinic Center 18.3
Zenit
Player Position %
1 Sergey Karasev Forward 54.8
2 Vladislav Trushkin Forward 33.2
3 Evgeny Voronov Guard 20.9
Player Position %
1 Codi Miller-McIntyre Guard 51.6
2 Jalen Reynolds Center 46.7
3 Philip Scrubb Guard 13.5
Kalev
Player Position %
1 Branko Mirkovic Guard 52.1
2 Maxim Salash Forward 17.9
3 Reggie Lynch Forward 13.3
Lokomotiv-Kuban
Player Position %
1 Dmitry Kulagin Guard 51.0
2 Vitaly Fridzon Guard 45.6
3 Dmitry Khvostov Guard 32.7
Player Position %
Isaiah Whitehead* Guard 35.1
1 Dorell Wright Forward 27.7
2 Trevor Lacey Guard 23.0
3  Mateusz Ponitka  Forward  20.1
Nizhny Novgorod
Player Position %
1 Ivan Strebkov Guard 50.3
2 Evgeny Baburin Guard 35.2
3 Dmitry Uzinsky Forward 15.8
Player Position %
1 Kendrick Perry Guard 63.6
2 Christopher Czerapowicz Forward 22.7
3 Vladimir Dragicevic Forward 18.7
PARMA
Player Position %
1 Alexander Platunov Guard 35.5
2 Alexander Vinnik Center 28.3
3 Konstantin Bulanov Forward 25.4
Player Position %
1 Kodi Justice Guard 39.7
2 Janis Blums Guard 32.3
3 Rashard Kelly Forward 26.7
UNICS
Player Position %
1 Anton Ponkrashov Guard 33.7
2 Maxim Sheleketo Forward 21.3
3 Artem Klimenko Center 19.9
Player Position %
1 Jamar Smith Guard 54.1
2 Maurice Ndour Forward 35.1
3 Errick McCollum Guard 20.8
Khimki
Player Position %
1 Alexey Shved Guard 73.8
2 Sergey Monia Forward 27.6
3 Viacheslav Zaitcev Guard 19.5
Player Position %
1 Anthony Gill Forward 65.2
2 Jordan Mickey Center 38.6
3 Stefan Markovic Guard 17.8
Tsmoki-Minsk
Player Position %
1 Vitali Liutych Forward 39.8
2 Stefan Moody Guard 35.2
3 Aliaksandr Kudrautsau Guard 15.7
CSKA
Player Position %
1 Andrey Vorontsevich Forward 35.7
2 Mikhail Kulagin Guard 30.6
3 Joel Bolomboy Center 30.0
Player Position %
1 Nando De Colo Guard 54.3
2 Sergio Rodriguez Guard 44.6
3 Cory Higgins Guard 33.1

* – Isaiah Whitehead parted ways with Lokomotiv-Kuban.

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