By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
With the fans and the media vote completed, VTB United league announced today its All Stars for the first ever All Star Game of the league.
It’s not a surprise than some of the biggest names in Europe are included like CSKA Moscow’s duo of Milos Teodosic and Nando De Colo, Unics Kazan’s Keith Langford, Khimki’s Alexey Shved and Zenit St. Petersburg Sergey Karasev. Here are the two teams.
Russian Stars: Dmitry Khvostov (Lokomotiv-Kuban), Ivan Strebkov (Nizhny Novgorod), Sergey Bykov (Avtodor), Evgeny Voronov (UNICS), Evgeny Kolesnikov (Avtodor), Alexey Shved (Khimki), Sergey Karasev (Zenit), Sergey Monia (Khimki), Viktor Khryapa, Andrei Vorontsevich (both CSKA), Andrei Zubkov (Lokomotiv-Kuban), Petr Gubanov (Nizhny Novgorod).
Reserve (13th player)*: Anton Ponkrashov (UNICS)
World Stars: Stefan Markovic (Zenit), Taylor Rochestie (Lokomotiv-Kuban), Milos Teodosic, Nando De Colo (both CSKA), Janis Blums (VEF), Keith Langford (UNICS), Ryan Broekhoff (Lokomotiv-Kuban), DeAndre Kane (Nizhny Novgorod), Janis Timma (Zenit), Nick Minnerath (Avtodor), Frank Elegar (Enisey), Artsim Parakhouski (UNICS).
Reserve (13th player): Danilo Andjusic (Parma)
*-a reserve player will be added in the event of an injury.
Teams were formed based on the following rules:
– Each team should have 12 players, six guards and six frontcourt
– No more than two players from one club on each team
Results:
| Russian Stars. Backcourt | |||
| # | Player | Team | Votes |
| 1 | Alexey Shved | Khimki | 23 |
| 2 | Dmitry Khvostov | Lokomotiv-Kuban | 23 |
| 3 | Ivan Strebkov | Nizhny Novgorod | 17 |
| 4 | Evgeny Voronov | UNICS | 13 |
| 5 | Sergey Bykov | Avtodor | 13 |
| 6 | Evgeny Kolesnikov | Avtodor | 12 |
| 7 | Anton Ponkrashov | UNICS | 11 |
| 8 | Maxim Grigoryev | Nizhny Novgorod | 6 |
| 9 | Vasily Zavoruev | Enisey | 5 |
| 10 | Alexey Vzdykhalkin | Enisey | 5 |
| 11 | Artem Vikhrov | Zenit | 4 |
| 12 | Sergei Chernov | Parma | 2 |
| 13 | Maxim Kolyushkin | Avtodor | 2 |
| 14 | Evgeny Baburin | Lokomotiv-Kuban | 1 |
| 15 | Ivan Ukhov | Parma | 1 |
| Russian Stars. Frontcourt | |||
| # | Player | Team | Votes |
| 1 | Sergey Karasev | Zenit | 23 |
| 2 | Sergey Monia | Khimki | 22 |
| 3 | Andrei Zubkov | Lokomotiv-Kuban | 22 |
| 4 | Andrei Vorontsevich | CSKA | 18 |
| 5 | Viktor Khryapa | CSKA | 14 |
| 6 | Nikita Kurbanov** | CSKA | 13 |
| 7 | Petr Gubanov | Nizhny Novgorod | 8 |
| 8 | Vadim Panin | UNICS | 7 |
| 9 | Artem Klimenko | UNICS | 5 |
| 10 | Alexander Vinnik | Parma | 4 |
| 11 | Vladislav Trushkin | Enisey | 2 |
** – Nikita Kurbanov was the 3rd player from CSKA to be selected for the Russian Stars, which is why he could not make the roster.
| World Stars. Backcourt | |||
| # | Player | Team | Votes |
| 1 | Keith Langford | UNICS | 23 |
| 2 | Milos Teodosic | CSKA | 22 |
| 3 | Nando De Colo | CSKA | 18 |
| 4 | Taylor Rochestie | Lokomotiv-Kuban | 14 |
| 5 | Stefan Markovic | Zenit | 11 |
| 6 | Janis Blums | VEF | 11 |
| 7 | Danilo Andjusic | Parma | 10 |
| 8 | Ryan Toolson | Zenit | 8 |
| 9 | Demonte Harper | Kalev | 5 |
| 10 | Tony Taylor | Enisey | 5 |
| 11 | Michael Stockton | Avtodor | 4 |
| 12 | Rob Lowery | Astana | 3 |
| 13 | Ian Miller | Astana | 2 |
| 14 | Dru Joyce | Tsmoki-Minsk | 2 |
| 15 | Rain Veideman | Kalev | 1 |
| World Stars. Frontcourt | |||
| # | Player | Team | Votes |
| 1 | Janis Timma | Zenit | 23 |
| 2 | Nick Minnerath | Avtodor | 19 |
| 3 | DeAndre Kane | Nizhny Novgorod | 15 |
| 4 | Frank Elegar | Enisey | 14 |
| 5 | Ryan Broekhoff | Lokomotiv-Kuban | 11 |
| 6 | Artsiom Parakhouski | UNICS | 11 |
| 7 | Nobel Boungou-Colo | Khimki | 10 |
| 8 | Mardy Collins | Lokomotiv-Kuban | 9 |
| 9 | Jeremy Evans | Khimki | 7 |
| 10 | Kyle Hines | CSKA | 6 |
| 11 | Latavious Williams | UNICS | 5 |
| 12 | Ousman Krubally | Astana | 4 |
| 13 | Tomislav Zubcic | Nizhny Novgorod | 2 |
| 14 | Martins Meiers | VEF | 2 |
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