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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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Games 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
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989–90 | Atlanta | 72 | 4 | 13.0 | .482 | .382 | .583 | 1.7 | 1.2 | .5 | .3 | 5.0 |
| 1991–92 | Atlanta | 77 | 27 | 19.7 | .441 | .318 | .631 | 3.4 | 3.2 | .9 | .4 | 8.6 |
| Career | 149 | 31 | 16.5 | .455 | .333 | .613 | 2.6 | 2.2 | .7 | .3 | 6.8 |
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.