UNICS presented a renewed team – News – Sport – Kommersant

Today, September 19, Kazan UNICS presented to the fans a renewed team, which, judging by the composition, has every chance of winning the title in the new season. Perhaps it was UNICS that in the summer more than other teams in the VTB United League was marked by bright acquisitions. Among the club’s newcomers are: center Louis Labery, who has two dozen matches for the French national team, defender Anthony Brown with NBA experience, reliable power forward Vince Hunter, former Dallas point guard Daryl Macon, well known to Russian fans for his performances for ” Zenith Jalen Reynolds. Plus Stanislav Ilnitsky and Mikhail Kulagin, who need no introduction. Recall that Russian sports are excluded from international competitions, but the feeling is as if UNICS coach Velimir Perasovich still formed a team to play in the Euroleague.

Beginners, as well as proven fighters, such as UNICS captain Andrey Vorontsevich, Kazan presented in a big way. The matter was not limited to the routine event at the stadium. UNICS with its betting partner organized a large-scale festival in the Uram park. The presentation of the team (as well as the new design of the club bus, with which fans took pictures with no less willingness than with basketball players), gathered a full concert venue of the largest extreme park in Russia – 40,000 people. There could be more, but not all fit. No basketball club in Russia has ever managed to attract such an audience. And those who came, obviously, were satisfied with what they saw. Especially those who, having taken part in various competitions, won season tickets. And the streetball tournament that took place in the heat of passion could be compared with the matches of the regular season. Its winners in the final met with a team of UNICS legends and received awards from the hands of the club’s best players in its history – Ruslan Avleev, Petr Samoylenko and Igor Kudelin. And the presentation of the team ended with a big concert of the rap artist Feduk.

Arnold Kabanov