Nizhny Novgorod Rosters

2020-2021 Nizhny Novgorod Roster

# Player Pos Height Weight Age Birth City NBA Draft Status Nationality
8 Anton Astapkovich GF 6-8 208 27 Minsk 2016 NBA Draft, Undrafted Belarus
Russia
- Evgenii Baburin SG 6-3 210 33 Gorki 2009 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
30 Mikhail Belenitskii SG 6-7 215 18 Moscow 2024 NBA Draft Eligible Russia
10 Alexandr Chadov F 6-7 215 19 Izhevsk 2023 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
- Stepan Dmitrievic Gontar C 6-11 232 18 N/A 2024 NBA Draft Eligible Slovenia
Russia
5 Alexander Gankevich SF 6-5 205 25 Moscow 2017 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
31 Alex Gavrilovic PF 6-9 245 29 Strasbourg 2015 NBA Draft, Undrafted France
24 Timofei Gerasimov PG 6-6 198 23 Rostov-on-Don 2019 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
4 Artem Komolov SG 6-5 192 27 Moscow 2015 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
18 Luke Petrasek F 6-10 208 25 Northport (NY) 2017 NBA Draft, Undrafted United States
Poland
9 Ilya Platonov SF 6-7 187 22 Moscow 2020 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
- Nate Sestina PF 6-9 234 23 Emporium (PA) 2020 NBA Draft, Undrafted United States
2 Kasey Shepherd G 6-3 178 26 Houston (TX) 2016 NBA Draft, Undrafted United States
19 Ivan Strebkov G 6-3 185 29 Almaty 2013 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
Kazakhstan
21 Sergey Toporov SF 6-5 220 40 Sovetsk 2003 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia
- Andrey Vorontsevich F 6-9 232 33 Omsk 2009 NBA Draft, Undrafted Russia

2020-2021 Nizhny Novgorod Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters E. Baburin I. Strebkov S. Toporov A. Astapkovich A. Vorontsevich
Rotation K. Shepherd A. Komolov I. Platonov    
Rotation T. Gerasimov        
Lim PT       A. Chadov  
Lim PT       A. Gavrilovic  
Lim PT       L. Petrasek  

Recent Nizhny Novgorod History

Season League Record Placement
2023-2024 VTB SuperCup 1-2 4th
2023-2024 VTB United League 12-27 12th
2022-2023 VTB United League 17-18 6th
2021-2022 Basketball Champions League Europe 2-4 27th
2021-2022 VTB United League 7-15 7th
2020-2021 Basketball Champions League Europe 8-5 6th
2020-2021 VTB United League 15-12 5th
2019-2020 Basketball Champions League - Qualification 2-0 N/A
2019-2020 Basketball Champions League Europe 10-7 10th
2019-2020 VTB United League 7-11 11th
2018-2019 Basketball Champions League - Qualification 5-1 N/A
2018-2019 Basketball Champions League Europe 8-10 8th
2018-2019 VTB United League 14-15 8th
2017-2018 Basketball Champions League - Qualification 0-2 N/A
2017-2018 FIBA Europe Cup 11-5 5th
2017-2018 VTB United League 11-17 5th
2016-2017 Eurocup 5-9 14th
2016-2017 VTB United League 8-16 9th
2015-2016 Eurocup 10-10 5th
2015-2016 VTB United League 17-16 7th
2014-2015 Euroleague 8-16 15th
2014-2015 VTB United League 22-16 4th
2013-2014 Eurocup 15-7 3rd
2013-2014 VTB United League 19-11 2nd
2012-2013 VTB United League 13-12 8th
2012-2013 Russian PBL 8-10 5th
2011-2012 Eurochallenge 5-7 N/A
2011-2012 VTB United League 8-10 N/A
2011-2012 Russian PBL 3-15 N/A

2020-2021 Nizhny Novgorod Awards & Honors

Player Award / Honor
Kasey Shepherd Basketball Champions League Top 5 (2021)

2020-2021 Nizhny Novgorod Front Office

Staff Member Position
Zoran Lukic Head Coach
Alexey Zhukov Assistant Coach
Sergey Kozin Assistant Coach
Nebojsa Vidic Assistant Coach
Egor Panov Assistant Coach
Alexander Khairetdinov General Manager
Dmitry Vasilyev Athletic Trainer