The Best Basketball Players From Russia
Vote up the best Russian basketball players of all time.
Who is the best basketball player from Russia? Russia has produced some very talented basketball players over the years, including some great Russian players in the NBA. Many of the best Russian basketball players to ever live are on this list, so if you're a native of Russia and are aspiring to play ball professionally then these people should be your idols. So, who is the best Russian basketball player of all time? Which great basketball players are from Russia?
Many fans would acknowledge NBA stars like Andrei Kirilenko, Timofey Mozgov, or Alexey Shved to be some of the best NBA players ever out of Russia. But there are also plenty of Russian basketball players who made an impact across the globe, such as Viktor Khryapa, Pavel Podkolzin, and Sergey Karasev.
Vote up the best Russian basketball players and help decide who are the best basketball players from Russia of all time!
- 1Small forward, Power forward
- Teams: Utah Jazz, Brooklyn Nets
- 2Center
- Teams: Denver Nuggets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks
- 3Center
- Teams: Cleveland Cavaliers
- 4Shooting Guard
- Teams: Minnesota Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks
- 5Center
- Teams: Dallas Mavericks
- 6Power forward
- Teams: Ciclista Olimpico, Joventut Badalona, Ural Yekaterinburg
- 7Power forward
- Teams: CSKA Moscow, Atletas Kaunas, Dynamo Moscow, Makedonikos
- 8Forward, Center
- Teams: Utah Jazz, Milwaukee Bucks
- 9
Andrey Zubkov
Power forward- Teams: Zenit Saint Petersburg, Khimki, Lokomotiv Kuban
- 10Small forward
- Teams: Denver Nuggets
- 11Center
- Teams: Khimki BC, Spartak Saint Petersburg, Ural Great, Proteas EKA AEL, BC Krasnye Krylia.
- 12Shooting guard
- Teams: Spartak St. Petersburg, Avtodor Saratov, Pınar Karşıyaka, ASVEL, CSKA Moscow
- 13Center
- Teams: Pieno žvaigždės, UNICS Kazan, Dynamo Moscow, BC Khimki
- 14Small forward
- Teams: Tsmoki-Minsk
- 15Point guard
- Teams: Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Lokomotiv Kuban, Avtodor Saratov
- 16
Andrei Sopin
Point guard- Teams: Runa Basket
- 17
Evgeny Baburin
Shooting guard- Teams: Nizhny Novgorod, Lokomotiv Kuban, Spartak Primorye, Temp-SUMZ
- 18
Grigory Motovilov
Point guard- Teams: Lokomotiv Kuban, BC Spartak Primorye, Zenit Saint Petersburg
- 19
Vladimir Ivlev
Power forward- Teams: CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Kuban, Nizhny Novgorod
- 20
Mikhail Kulagin
Point guard- Teams: BC Enisey, CSKA Moscow, Triumph Lyubertsy
- 21
Evgeny Valiev
Power forward- Teams: BC UNICS
- 22Power forward
- Teams: Atlanta Hawks
- 23Power forward
- Teams: Khimki, CSKA Moscow, Arsenal Tula, Samara
- 24Center
- Teams: Spartak Leningrad
- 25Center
- Teams: Olympiacos Piraeus, CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar
