Big man Anton Pushkov stays with Zenit / News - Basketnews.com

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Zenit St Petersburg and the Russian power forward/center will continue their cooperation for two upcoming seasons.

Anton Pushkov

Position:PF, CAge:32Height:208 cmWeight:98 kgBirth place:Russian FederationProfileNewsStatistics

32-year-old (2.08) has been a member of Zenit since 2015. Last season he averaged 1.5 points, 1.1 rebounds, and 0.2 assists in 14 EuroLeague games.

Anton Pushkov is the main old-timer of Zenit. He holds the club records for most games played and the most dunks.

"Anton is the keeper of the team spirit, a fighter, a player who helped out more than once in difficult situations. Last season was a prime example of this when we lost Alex Poythress due to injury, and Anton helped a lot to continue a successful streak of games and prevent the game slump. His sincere positivity and openness are very important for our team," said President of Zenit St Petersburg Alexander Tserkovny.

Pushkov began his professional career with Volzhanin-GES Volzhskiy in 2008 and stayed with the team until 2011. Then, he moved to the second team of Khimki Moscow and later joined the main team. With Khimki, he won the EuroCup in the 2011-12 season. After winning experience, he moved to the Krasnye Krylya and stayed there till 2015.

Current roster:

Zenit St Petersburg

Position Player Status PG Denis Zakharov Signed until 2022 PG Conner Frankamp(story) Signeduntil 2023 SG Jordan Loyd Signeduntil 2023 SG Dmitry Kulagin Signed until 2022 SG Billy Baron (story) Signed until 2023 SG Sergey Karasev Signeduntil 2022 SF Mateusz Ponitka Signeduntil 2024 SF Dmitry Kulagin Signeduntil 2022 SF Igor Volkhin Signeduntil 2022 SF/PF Mindaugas Kuzminskas(story) Signed until 2022 PF Andrey Zubkov Signeduntil 2022 PF Maksim Karvanen Signeduntil 2022 PF/C Jordan Mickey(story) Signed until 2022 PF/C Anton Pushkov(story) Signed until 2023 C Arturas Gudaitis Signeduntil 2024 C Alex Poythress Signeduntil 2022 Coach Xavi Pascual Expired contract Kevin Pangos, Austin Hollins (not coming back), KC Rivers (not coming back), Will Thomas, Vitaly Fridzon, Vladislav Trushkin (not coming back) Rumored to leave Dmitry Khvostov (not coming back) Interested Kevin Pangos

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