By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The Russian Basketball Federation announced the list of players that will begin preparing for the 2019 World Cup tournament held in China (31/8 – 15/9).
Former NBA champion Timofey Mozgov is forced to skip the World Cup due to a leg problem that kept him sidelined in 2018-2019. CSKA Moscow guard Ivan Ukhov was named to the roster but was then ruled out since he hasn’t fully recovered from an injury he sustained in the VTB League Finals.
Alexey Shved, the top scorer of EuroBasket 2017, will join the squad in latter stages of the preparation.
The full list is as follows:
Dmitry Kulagin (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Mikhail Kulagin (CSKA Moscow)
Grigory Motovilov (Spartak-Primorye)
Alexander Platunov (“PARMA”, Perm)
Andrei Sopin (TEMP-SUMZ – UGMK)
Vitaly Fridzon (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Alexey Shved (Khimki Moscow)
Semyon Antonov (CSKA Moscow)
Nikita Balashov (free agent)
Evgeny Valiev (Zenit, St. Petersburg)
Andrei Vorontsevich (CSKA Moscow)
Andrei Zubkov (Khimki Moscow)
Sergey Karasev (Zenit Moscow0
Nikita Kurbanov (CSKA Moscow)
Andrei Lopatin (CSKA Moscow)
Joel Bolomboy (CSKA Moscow)
Artem Zabelin (Avtodor Saratov)
Vladimir Ivlev (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Artem Klimenko (UNICS, Kazan)