Zenit inks Xavier Moon

Xavier Moon

Zenit Saint Petersburg (VTB United League) signed 29-year-old USA international guard Xavier Moon (188cm-75kg-1995, college: Morehead State) for the upcoming 2024-25 season. He played last season with Orlando Magic in the NBA Summer League. In 5 games just recently, he had 7.0ppg, 3.4rpg, 3.4apg, and 1.0spg.
He also represented the USA at the FIBA World Cup 2023 Americas Qualifiers last year. During this event, he scored an average of 12.5 ppg and had 1 rpg.
Moon is quite an experienced player. He has played professionally in Canada (London Lightning and Stingers), France (ALM Evreux), Israel (Maccabi Hod Hasharon), NBA (LA Clippers), TBL (Albany Patroons), NBA G League (Ontario Clippers), The Basketball Tournament (Atlanta Dirty S.), and NBA Summer League (LA Clippers).
In addition to these achievements, Moon has received numerous awards throughout his career. His team reached the NBA G League Semifinals in 2022. He was named Eurobasket.com All-Israeli National League Guard of the Year in 2021.
He graduated from Morehead State in 2017 and it'll be his eighth season as a pro player. Moon played also for Northwest Florida State College for 2 years.


Zenit Saint Petersburg roster for 2024-25:

Guards:
Trent Frazier
Alexandr Shcherbenev

Forwards:
Andrey Vorontsevich
Sergey Karasev
Omari Spellman
Igor Volkhin

Center:
Alexander Poythress