2024-04-20 04:28:41
Bulgarian star in the league of aliens continues to gets less and less a chance at “Sacramento” his team came to a decider playoff game
A unique achievement for a rookie who came from Europe to play in the NBA was recorded by the native star in the alien league Alexander Vezenkov. The Bulgarian ace in basketball, who has been playing in “Sacramento” since the summer, did not score a point against only 2 teams in the strongest championship when he was on the field. The teams in question are Portland and Minnesota. Athlete No. 1 of Bulgaria for 2023 did not score against 5 other teams in the league – “Orlando”, “Miami”, “Chigaco”, “Toronto” and “Charlotte”, but Vezenkov missed the meetings with these teams because injury or coaching decision.
This was shown by a report of “24 hours” after the end of the regular season in the NBA. There are 30 teams in the league in total. And everyone plays against everyone at least once.
Vezenkov played in 42 games for the Kings and missed 40 in his first NBA season. After recovering from an ankle injury, however, the hometown star is getting less and less playing time from Kings coach Mike Brown. For the entire campaign so far
Sasha has spent
12:10 on average
minutes on the field
This gives the native star 11th place in this indicator in the team of 14 basketball players.
The fact that Vezenkov is getting less and less time in the game was confirmed in the last game of the “Kings”. The team from California won the first battle towards the big goal – the playoffs. Because of the 9th place Vezenkov and his teammates took in the Western Conference, Sacramento must go through the play-in tournament to reach the playoffs.
The “Kings” defeated the former dominator in the NBA – “Golden State”, 118:94 in the first match of the mini-competition. Although the Bulgarian’s team had the lead all the time, coach Brown let him go in the last 2 minutes of the match, when everything was clear. Vezenkov accounted for one inaccurate shot and caught one fight in just over 120 seconds. on the parquet floor.
Defeat for “Golden State” means almost certain
end of
distance,
which the coach
Steve Kerr
built over the last nearly 10 seasons. The team from San Francisco won the cup 5 times, but now 2 of the big stars of the team – Klay Thompson and Draymond Green – are leaving the team.
Now before the players of “Kings” stands the biggest challenge to reach the cherished goal – a match with their big nightmare in the season “New Orleans”. The “Pelicans” will get a second chance to qualify for the playoffs after losing to the “LA Lakers” between the 7th and 8th of the play-in tournament.
The meeting, which will broadcast the last participant in the playoffs from the Western Conference, is on Friday at 4:30 in the hall of the “pelicans”.
“New Orleans” is considered a favorite before the match, and this is completely logical, after winning 5 times out of as many meetings against the “Kings” during the season. In question for the match with Vezenkov and company will be the big star of the “Pelicans” Zaion Williamson.
The No. 1 pick in the 2019 Draft was injured in the loss to the Lakers.