Saint Petersburg Lions
Saint Petersburg Lions was a professional basketball team in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The team was created in 2000 by a consortium of Italian and Swiss sponsors at the lead of Interperformances basketball agency. They were banned by the Russian Basketball Federation due to their participation in the newly created Euroleague run by Euroleague Basketball Company during the 2000-01 season. The Russian federation had actually agreed to send its representatives to the SuproLeague, run by FIBA Europe. When the merger of the two competitions the following year occurred, the Lions were dissolved.Roster
The roster of the Lions in their first and only season consisted of:
- Dževad Alihodžić
- Sergei Bazarevich
- Bojan Brkic
- Steven Edwards
- Derek Hamilton
- Keith Jennings
- Bogdan Karebin
- Evgeni Korshunov
- Marijan Kraljević
- Andrea Malamov
- Andrey Maltsev
- Stjepan Stazić
- Marko Verginella
- Miljan Vesković
- Evgeny Kisurin
- Head coach: Miodrag Vesković
