Former Duke guards Trajan Langdon still remembers those days when he was one of the most promising young talents in the country.

Despite a sucessful career in college, where Langdon averaged 17.3 points and 3.4 per game in his senior season, the 6-foot-4 guard has became one of those players who didn’t find a place in the NBA.

After being picked by Cleveland Cavaliers as the 11th overall pick in 1999 NBA Draft, Trangdon spent only three seasons in the NBA and then decided to move overseas.

“I think my game was more suitable for Europe,” Langdon told RealGM. “I’m happy that I’ve gained NBA experience, but I’m also happy that I made a decision to leave the States and come to Europe. I think it was the best move at the time.”

Being a 34-year-old, Langdon is probably one of the best-known players in Europe. He began his European career with Benetton Treviso.

Nevertheless, Langdon’s CSKA Moscow team, which was one of the most dominant clubs in European basketball over the last decade, didn’t make it to the Euroleague Top 16 and lost its chance to make its ninth consecutive Euroleague Final Four appearance. And this season has probably been the worst in Langdon’s career as well, averaging only 8.3 points in 28 minutes per game in the Euroleague.

“It’s very difficult to make it to the Euroleague Final Four so many times in a row and sometimes it happens that you don’t play good and that’s it,” said Langdon.

Langdon also wore the U.S. Men's National Team jersey in the FIBA Worlds 1998 and won the bronze.

“It was a special moment. I didn’t understand how important was that for me at that time. Nobody expected that we would win a bronze in the Worlds,” Langdon said.

Moreover, it’s easy to say that CSKA guard’s career overseas was more than successful. He’s the winner of two Euroleague titles, an All-Euroleague First Team selection in 2007 and 2008, Euroleague Final Four MVP in 2008 and Russian, Italian and Turkish league championships.

Usually American players prefer to play in places, where the weather is warm and sunny. However, Langdon is currently playing Moscow, Russia, where the winter temperature reaches -6 °F.

“All basketball players prefer to play where it’s hot and sunny, but I feel good and comfortable in Moscow, which was kind to me. I got use to the cold weather and that’s not a big problem for me. Also, I’m glad I had a chance to work here with a great coach, Ettore Messina,” said Langdon.

The Alaskian native guard also told RealGM that his friends don’t even try to tease his for playing in Russia for such a long time.

 “They don’t joke about that. My friends know that I’m a serious guy and they take it serously. They know that there is a reason why I’m playing here for so long,” the CSKA guard said. “They were surprised when they came here and found out that Moscow has everything what you could need.”