Alexei Shved - a promising player of the Philadelphia Sixers

Alexei Shved is a Russian basketball player who plays in the NBA for the Philadelphia Sixers team. It is considered the most progressive participant of the Russian championship 2010/2011. He is the holder of the bronze medals of the European Championship 2011 and the 2012 Olympics. This article will describe his brief biography.

Childhood

Alexey Shved (photo below) was born in Belgorod in 1988. The boy started to play basketball in school years. His first coach was his own father.

Carier start

"Burevestnik" - this is the name of the team, for which Alexey Shved began to play. The basketball player spent only one season there. Then there were the teams "Conti", "Khimki" and "CSKA". Until the end of the 2009-2010 season, the young man was rented from the Moscow "Dynamo".

NBA

In 2010, Alex Shved took part in the draft. However, the basketball player was not chosen either in the 1st or in the 2nd round.

In mid-2012, the Associated Press reported that the athlete withdraws from CSKA Moscow and signs a contract with the BC "Minnesota Timberwolves" for three years. The deal amounted to about $ 10 million. A couple of days later he officially moved to this club.

In the season of 2012/2013, most of the leading Timberwolves players were injured, so Alex Shved spent more than 20 minutes per game on the site. Soon he became a key player. Already in his seventh match the athlete scored 16 points for half an hour, and also made 3 interceptions, 4 rebounds and 5 assists. In the ninth match, he set a new personal record - 22 points in 33 minutes. Alexei became the fourth Russian in the NBA, gaining at least 20 points for the game.

Double-double

The end of 2012 was marked for the hero of this article by an important event. Alexei Shved made his first "double-double" career (12 assists, 12 points). This happened in a match against the leading team in the championship team "Oklahoma". In 2013, Swede made an average of 5 assists and scored somewhere 11 points for 28 minutes of the game. The performance of Alexei fell in connection with the return of the main point guard Rubio, who recovered from injury.

End of the season 2012/2013

As a result, the Swede finished the season with the following indicators: for 23.5 minutes of the game he made 3.7 transfers and scored 8.6 points. Although the overall percentage of the hit was not very high - 37.2%. Also, the sportsman made a double double-double for the season. In the Western Conference, "Minnesota" took only 12th place (51 losses and 31 victories), which prevented her from entering the playoffs. Although in January the team had more wins than losses (16-15). The deterioration of the game was associated with the injuries of Andrei Kirilenko and Kevin Love, as well as with unstable performances by Rubio.

Match all stars

In early 2013, Swede participated in the game of ascending basketball players. It was held in the framework of the "Match of All the Stars". The sportsman spent about 18 minutes on the court, managed to make 4 transfers and scored 12 points. Team Swedes won with a score of 163: 135. Previously, only Kirilenko took part in such NBA matches.

"Philadelphia Sixers"

In the offseason, Alexei Shved as a result of a three-way deal was traded from "Minnesota" to "Philadelphia Sixers". The hero of this article went there together with Luke Mba. And in the opposite direction, the leadership decided to send striker Tadeus Yang. And from "Cleveland" in "Minnesota" went forwards Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins.

It should be noted that Alexey's speed capabilities will certainly be in demand in the new team. With due perseverance, he can even take the place, if not the main, then the first reserve player. And it already guarantees 20 minutes of time on the field. In addition, Swede has good experience and work on the errors. And the circumstances in the "Philadelphia" have developed in such a way that our athlete is simply obliged to give 100%. Under the circumstances is meant the process of team restructuring and contractual obligations. At the moment, Alexei continues to play for the "Philadelphia", showing good results from the match to the match.