Pavlin Ivanov (basketball)


Pavlin Ivanov is a Bulgarian professional basketball player for Rilski Sportist in the Bulgarian NBL, as a shooting guard. Ivanov was born in Yambol.

Career

Ivanov started playing basketball at the local youth club in Yambol - Tiger, at the age of nine. In 2008 he moved to Benetton Basket youth club and made his professional debut there in the season 2011–12. The next season, he signed for KK Budućnost. In December 2013 he returned to his home town to play for BC Yambol. In 2014-15 he signed for Levski, but he finished the season at BC Beroe. The next season Ivanov moved to Lukoil Academic. His club won the League and he was awarded finals MVP. In the first days of 2018 he moved to Levski Lukoil with all the first team players of Lukoil Academic, as part of a sponsorship switch between the two clubs. He signed with Balkan for 1+1 years, in November 2018.
On February 2, 2020, he has signed with Beroe in the Bulgarian NBL. The same year in June he joined Rilski Sportist.

Bulgarian national team

Ivanov represented the senior men's Bulgarian national team in the second qualification tournament for FIBA EuroBasket 2015, averaging 5.3 points per game. He also played in EuroBasket 2017 qualification, averaging 7.5 points per game.
With Bulgaria's youth national teams, he played at the 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship and 2013 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.