Today at 9.00 CET the bus with CSKA aboard left the territory of USH CSKA and went to the airport Vnukovo. The team would take a flight to Athens from there. Tomorrow CSKA would meet Panathinaikos in a game of the second leg of the Euroleague.
There are 11 players on the roster of the team. They are forwards Sergey Panov, David Vanterpool, Nikita Shabalkin, centers David Andersen, Alexey Savrasenko, Anatoly Kashirov, guards Theodoros Papaloukas, Vasily Zavoruev, Jon Robert Holden, Zakhar Pashutin, Trajan Langdon. It is clear from the list that neither Matjaz Smodis nor Vladimir Dyachok joined the team. Both are recovering from the injuries and the long flight would not their conditions any better.