Samara lands Alexander Gavrilov

Alexander Gavrilov

BC Samara (Superleague 1) tabbed 25-year old 193cm guard Alexander Gavrilov for new season. He played most recently at Vostok-65 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In 18 Superleague 1 games he averaged impressive 15.3ppg, 3.3rpg and 4.6apg last season. Gavrilov helped them to make it to the cup final. He can count that season as a very successful as was voted to Eurobasket.com All-Russian Superleague 1 Honorable Mention. He also played for Burevestnik that season where in four Superleague 1 games he had 13.8ppg, 4.0rpg, 6.8apg and 1.8spg.
He represented Russia at the European Championships U20 in Lignano Sabbiadoro (Italy) six years ago. His stats at that event were 9 games: 5.8ppg, 1.9rpg, Assists-2 (4.3apg), 1.6spg, FGP: 35.6%, 3PT: 18.8%, FT: 78.6%.
Gavrilov has played previously professionally also in Estonia (Kalev/Cramo) and Russia (CSKA Junior, Ural Ekaterinburg, MBA Moscow and CSKA Moscow 2nd team).
Gavrilov won Russian VTB Youth League championship title in 2017.