TOMSK, Sept 10 – RIA Tomsk. The Tomsk basketball school graduate, central player Alexander Kaun became a new player of NBA team (National basketball association of North America) Cleveland Cavaliers from the State of Ohio in the USA, is reported on the official website of the team.
"Cleveland Cavaliers signed the contract with central player Sasha Kaun, it was declared by the general manager of the team David Griffin today", – it is told in the message.
Kaun was born in Tomsk. He was trained in basketball sport school No. 6 of Tomsk. His Trainers were Yury Chernenky, Vyacheslav Rastorguyev. After receiving the secondary education he went to study in the USA on a student's exchange.In the spring of 2008 he debuted as a part of the Russian national basketball team and signed a contract with CSKA basketball club (Moscow) where he played for six seasons and became the five-time champion of Russia, the five-time champion of League of VTB. He is the bronze prize-winner of the Olympic Games 2012.
In the past season of NBA Cleveland Cavaliers which is headed by the former coach of the Russian national team David Blatt, reached the playoffs final, however Golden State Warriors beat them in four victories series (4:2).