The VTB United League 2009–10 was the first complete season of the

VTB United League The VTB United League () is an international professional men's club basketball league that was founded in 2009. It is made up of mostly Russian clubs, along with one each from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Since 2013, it is the first tier of Russian ...

, which is Eastern Europe's (and the Baltic region's) top-tier level competition for men's professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

clubs.

Teams of the 2009–10 season

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Final four

The Final Four took place between January 21 and 22, 2010 in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...

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Kaunas Sports Hall Kaunas Sports Hall (), also known as the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Hall is the second largest arena of Kaunas, Lithuania. It is the first arena built in the residential Žaliakalnis neighbourhood of Kaunas specially for basketball in Europe a ...

, the home court of Žalgiris Kaunas. The following teams qualified: *

CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was the central part of the Armed Forces (sports ...

* Khimki Moscow Region * UNICS Kazan * Žalgiris Kaunas

Semifinals

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Third-place playoff

Final

Individual awards

All-Round 1 Team

* Andrey Vorontsevich – MVP (CSKA) *

Timofey Mozgov Timofey Pavlovich Mozgov ( rus, Тимофей Павлович Мозгов, p=tʲɪmɐˈfʲej mɐˈzɡof, born 16 July 1986) is a Russian former professional basketball player. Mozgov won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 201 ...

(Khimki) * Chris Owens (Donetsk) *

Martynas Mažeika Martynas Mažeika (born 29 January 1985) is a Lithuanian professional basketball executive and former player. At in height, he played as point guard and shooting guard, preferring the latter position. He is currently the general manager for Nep ...

(VEF) * Marko Popović (UNICS)

All-Round 2 Team

* Marko Popović – MVP (UNICS) *

Krešimir Lončar Krešimir Lončar (born February 12, 1983) is a Croatian former professional basketball player, currently working as manager of sport & scouting for s.Oliver Würzburg of the Basketball Bundesliga. Standing at , he played both the power forward a ...

(UNICS) *

Victor Khryapa Victor Vladimirovich Khryapa (also trans. Viktor; ; born August 3, 1982) is a Russian former professional basketball player who spent the majority of his career playing for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League. A versatile forward standing at ...

(CSKA) *

Robertas Javtokas Robertas Javtokas (born March 20, 1980) is a Lithuanian professional basketball executive and former player. He most recently served as sports director of Žalgiris Kaunas. Standing at , he played the center position. He has been a member of th ...

(Khimki) * Zygimantas Janavicius (Zalgiris)

All-Round 3 Team

* Marcus Brown – MVP (Zalgiris) * Artur Drozdov (Donetsk) *

Saulius Štombergas Saulius Štombergas (born December 14, 1973) is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player, basketball coach and businessman. Štombergas is widely considered to be among the greatest Lithuanian basketball players of all time, known fo ...

(UNICS) *

(CSKA) * Alex Renfroe (VEF)

All-Round 4 Team

* Marcus Brown – MVP (Zalgiris) * Zoran Planinić (CSKA) * Marko Popović (UNICS) * Paulius Jankūnas (Khimki) * Hasan Rizvić (Azovmash)

All-Round 5 Team

– MVP (CSKA) * Kelly McCarty (Khimki) *

Travis Watson Travis Watson (born March 20, 1981) is an American professional basketball player. A 2.03 m tall power forward, he led the 2007–08 EuroLeague in rebounds with 9.7 per game while playing for Olimpia Milano. College career Watson played college ...

(Zalgiris) * Igor Zamanskiy (UNICS) * Alex Renfroe (VEF)

All-Tournament Team

Martynas Pocius Martynas Pocius (born 28 April 1986) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He was also a member of the Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuanian national basketball team. Early life Martynas Pocius was born in Vilnius ...

(Zalgiris) * Maciej Lampe (UNICS) *

Sasha Kaun Alexander "Sasha" Olegovich Kaun (, born May 8, 1985) is a Russian former professional basketball player. He played college basketball in the United States for the University of Kansas for four seasons, where he won an NCAA championship in 2008 ...

(CSKA) * Vitaly Fridzon (Khimki) * Marko Popović (UNICS)

MVPs

External links

Official Website

Official Website
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