Basketball
Emil Rajkovich left the post of head coach of CSKA basketball
Emil Rajkovic / Photo: © RIA Novosti / Maxim Blinov
The Moscow basketball club CSKA announced on its website the resignation of Emil Raikovich from the post of head coach of the team.
According to the results of the regular championship of the VTB United League, CSKA took third place; in the quarter finals the “red and blue” will play with Krasnoyarsk “Yenisey”.
— The club decided to terminate the contract with the team’s head coach Rajkovic. Together with him, assistants Marko Velickovic and Sasho Todorovski are leaving the team headquarters, CSKA said in a statement.
— I would like to express my gratitude to CSKA and its president Andrei Vatutin for the constant constructive cooperation and trust, thanks to which I led one of the most successful teams in the history of European basketball. Over these two years we had many victories and a large number of pleasant moments that will remain in my memory.
I would like to thank the staff, the players and, no less important, the CSKA fans, who always supported us in every match. “I sincerely hope that the change of coach will spur the team, which, with the return of Casper Ware, will achieve its goal and win the title,” said Rajkovic.
Raikovich took charge of CSKA in the summer of 2022. Under the leadership of the North Macedonian specialist, the team became the bronze medalist of the VTB United League in the 2022/23 season; in the same season, 45-year-old Rajkovic was recognized as the best coach of the championship.
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Press attache of CSKA Moscow Nikolai Tsynkevich reported on the Telegram channel that the son of American basketball player Antonius Cleveland is in intensive care in one of the hospitals in Krasnodar.
Antonius Cleveland is 31 years old, the basketball player moved to CSKA in the summer of 2025.
– For everyone who asks. The son of Antonius Cleveland is in intensive care in one of the hospitals in Krasnodar, where the family stayed with friends for the holidays. We believe that everything will be fine. During these holidays, it simply cannot be otherwise,” Tsynkevich wrote.
This season, Cleveland played in 15 games for the Army team, in which he averaged 10 points and 2.2 rebounds.
CSKA takes first place in the VTB United League standings.
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BC Anadolu Efes announced that it signed a contract Seiben Lee.
The contract with the American player continues until the end of the season.
Lee’s previous club was Greek team Olympiacos, which he joined in February 2025. He became the champion and winner of the Greek Cup with the red-whites.
This season Lee played 10 matches in the Greek Championship, playing an average of 18:20 minutes on the court and recording 10.2 points, 1.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. The American guard played in 11 games in the Euroleague, spending an average of 11:24 minutes on the court and recording 3.4 points, 0.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.
It was previously reported that the Euroleague match might be postponed due to an unusual reason.
Source: Sport UA
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Basketball
Basketball player Elatontsev, who left Lokomotiv-Kuban, signed a contract with the NCAA team
The Oklahoma Sooners University of Oklahoma team, which plays in the North American student league NCAA, announced on its official website that it has signed a contract with Russian basketball player Kirill Elatontsev, who has a valid agreement with the Krasnodar club Lokomotiv-Kuban.
In November, Lokomotiv-Kuban announced that Elatontsev was likely faking signs of illness in order to avoid taking part in matches. Then the center voluntarily left the club and flew to the USA. In December, Match TV reported that Lokomotiv applied to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in order to prohibit Elatontsev from moving within competitions under the auspices of the organization.
“First of all, we are glad that Kirill is here, because the path to this moment has been long. He’s older and has played against some really tough opponents, which will also help us in league games. In addition, he has an excellent shot from under the hoop. “We’re excited about his arrival and we’re working to get him acclimated to our program, our system, so he can help us as quickly as possible,” Oklahoma head coach Porter Moser said.
The release notes that Elatontsev can play for the team.
Elatontsev is 23 years old and made his debut for the main team of Lokomotiv-Kuban in 2021. The center was recognized as the best young player in the VTB United League for two seasons in a row.
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