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Alexander Volkov (basketball)
Ukrainian professional basketball player

Alexander Volkov (basketball)

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Ukrainian professional basketball player
A.K.A.
Alexander Anatolevich Volkov
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Omsk
Age
60 years
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Biography

Alexander Anatolevich "Sasha" Volkov (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Волков; born March 28, 1964) is a retired Soviet-Ukraine professional basketball player of Russian ethnicity. At 6'10" (2.08 m), he played the forward position and was born in Omsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.

Professional career

He played professionally for Stroitel (1981–1986; 1988–1989), CSKA Moscow (1986–1988), the Atlanta Hawks (1989–1992), Panasonic Reggio Calabria (1992–1993), Panathinaikos (1993–1994), Olympiacos (1994–1995), and Kyiv (2000–2002).

He was one of the founders of BC Kyiv. Volkov, who already retired from playing in 1995, returned for several appearances to help the newly found team in 2000. He has also served as the team's president.

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG% Field goal percentage 3P% 3-point field goal percentage FT% Free throw percentage
 RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game
 BPG Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1989–90Atlanta72413.0.482.382.5831.71.2.5.35.0
1991–92Atlanta772719.7.441.318.6313.43.2.9.48.6
Career1493116.5.455.333.6132.62.2.7.36.8

International career

Volkov won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as a member of the Soviet Union national basketball team. He also came out briefly from retirement to play for the Ukraine national basketball team in 1998.

Politics

From 1999 to 2000, he served as Minister of Sports in Ukraine. In June 2007, he was elected the head of the Ukrainian Basketball Federation.

Volkov was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament in 2006 on the party list of the Our Ukraine Bloc. But against the will of his faction, he joined the Anti-Crisis Coalition, which prompted early elections. In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 he was reelected to Parliament through the Party of Regions. Volkov was again elected through the Party of Regions to the Ukrainian Parliament in 2012. But left this party's faction in parliament on 17 April 2014. and joined the (then new) faction Economic Development one week later.

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