Sergei Wassiljewitsch Karassjow

Sergei Karasev
Player information
Full name	Sergei Wassiljewitsch Karassjow
birthday	26th October 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	St. Petersburg , Russia
size	201 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
NBA draft	2013 , 19th pick , Cleveland Cavaliers
Clubs as active
2008–2013 Triumph Ljuberzy 2013–2014 Cleveland Cavaliers 2013–2014 → Canton Charge ( D-League ) 2014–2016 Brooklyn Nets Since 2016 BK Zenit Saint Petersburg 0
National team 1
Since 02012	Russia
1 As of November 11, 2016

Sergei Wassiljewitsch Karassjow medal table
Basketball (men)
Russia
Olympic games
bronze	London 2012	Russia

Sergei Wassiljewitsch Karassjow ( Russian Сергей Васильевич Карасёв ; English transcription: Sergey Karasev ; born October 26, 1993 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) is a Russian basketball player . After starting his career in his home country with Triumph Lyuberzy with his father Vasily Karasjow , who himself became vice world champion as a coach, he played in the highest endowed professional league NBA from 2013 to 2016 . Since the 2016/17 season he has been back in Russia for BK Zenit Saint Petersburg .

Club career

Since his youth Karasjow played for Triumph from Lyubertsy and was coached by his father, among others. As a 17-year-old Karassjow took part in the 2011 U-19 World Cup in Riga and came third with Russia. In the same year he played his first games in the PBL for Triumph and was chosen as the MVP of the 25th match day of the 2010/11 season. The next year he reached the quarterfinals of the Baltic Basketball League and third place in the FIBA EuroChallenge 2012 with triumph, in which his father had meanwhile been promoted to head coach of the professional team . After the end of the 2011/12 season he was in the PBL Second team elected. He stayed at Triumph for another season and was named the best young player in the VTB United League 2012/13 . He attended the Nike Hoop Summit 2013 and signed up for the 2013 NBA Draft.

In the 2013 NBA draft , Karassjow was selected 19th by the Cleveland Cavaliers . In his debut season in the NBA, he had certain teething problems and was handed over several times to the “ farm team ” Canton Charge in the NBA Development League (D-League). After the end of the season he came to the Brooklyn Nets in a player swap. Under Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov, they had already signed his compatriot Andrei Kirilenko , who was experienced in the NBA, a year earlier, but had a dispute with novice coach Jason Kidd , who switched to the Milwaukee Bucks , over, among other things, personnel policy.

In the summer of 2016 he moved back to Russia, to BK Zenit Saint Petersburg .

National team

After Karassjow made his debut for the Russian national team at the qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games in Venezuela in July 2012, he was also a member of the team at the Olympic Games in London that won the third place match and the bronze medal against Argentina.

Awards and Achievements

• Bronze medalist with Russia in the 2012 Olympics
• Winner of the Universiade 2013 with the Russian national student team
• Top young player of the VTB-UL of the 2012/13 season
• Member of the PBL Second Team for the 2011/12 season

Web links

Commons : Sergey Karasev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sergey Karasev - Player profile on the website of the FIBA Euro Challenge ( English ).
• Sergey KARASEV - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Sergey Karasev - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeff Taylor: A great russian tale. (No longer available online.) FIBA , April 29, 2012, archived from the original on September 29, 2012 ; accessed on May 8, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ press service of PBL: Сергей Карасёв - MVP 25-го тура. PBL , May 11, 2011, accessed May 8, 2012 (Russian). 
3. ↑ VTB-UL press service: Sergey Karasev named Young Player of the Year. (No longer available online.) VTB United League, April 4, 2013, archived from the original on January 5, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Сергей Карасев продолжит карьеру в «Зените» (Russian)
5. ↑ Russia Rooster. (No longer available online.) FIBA , August 9, 2012, archived from the original on August 16, 2012 ; accessed on August 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.