Alexander Belov
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Alexander Alexandrovich Belov, commonly known as Sasha BelovSoviet national team. In 1978, when just 26 years old, Belov died of cardiac sarcoma, a type of cancer.
Belov was named one of
FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.[2]
In 2018, he was named one of the 101 Greats of European Basketball.
Club career
Born in
FIBA European Selection
(1971 and 1972).
In 2016, the club that Belov played for was renamed to
Kondrashin Belov, for a short time. The club was renamed in honor of both Belov, and the club's former head coach Vladimir Kondrashin
.
1975 NBA draft
In the tenth round of the
New Orleans Jazz selected Belov with the 161st pick of the draft; like the vast majority of Soviet players drafted into North American sports leagues, he would never end up playing for the team that drafted him. It would not be until 1989, that the first Soviet player, Lithuanian-born Šarūnas Marčiulionis, would play in the National Basketball Association
(NBA).
National team career
Belov won four
1971 EuroBasket
.
The highlight of Belov's career occurred during the
1975 EuroBasket, and the bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics
.
Life and death
Belov was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, on 9 November 1951. Belov died in Leningrad, on 3 October 1978, at the age of 26. His cause of death was a very rare disease, cardiac sarcoma.[3]
References
- ^ 101 Greats: Alexander "Sasha" Belov.
- ^ "Aleksander Belov Bio". FIBA. February 24, 2007. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
- ^ "Alexander Belov dies". The Free Lance–Star. Fredericksburg, Virginia. Associated Press. October 5, 1978.
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