Vasily Karasev

Vasily Karasev
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Position	Head coach
League	VTB; Eurocup
Personal information
Born	April 14, 1971 (age 53); Leningrad, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
NBA draft	1993: undrafted
Playing career	1990–2009
Career history
As player:
1990–1992	Spartak St. Petersburg
1992–1996	CSKA Moscow
1996–1997	Efes Pilsen
1997–1998	Alba Berlin
1998–2000	CSKA Moscow
2000–2001	Iraklis Thessaloniki
2001–2002	Ural Great Perm
2002–2003	Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody
2003–2005	Khimki
2005–2006	Ural Great Perm
2006–2008	Universitet Yugra Surgut
2008–2009	Triumph Lyubertsy
As coach:
2010	Russian Under-20 National Team
2010–2012	Triumph Lyubertsy (Assistant)
2012–present	Triumph Lyubertsy / Zenit Saint Petersburg
2013	Russian National Team
Men’s Basketball
Representing Russia
FIBA World Cup
FIBA EuroBasket

Vasily Nikolayevich Karasev (Template:Lang-ru; born April 14, 1971) is a former Russian professional basketball player. He is a current head coach of Triumph Lyubertsy.

Pro career

For several years, Karasev was the starting point guard of the Russian League club CSKA Moscow in the Euroleague. He also led CSKA to the 1996 Euroleague Final Four. He was selected to the FIBA EuroStars team in the years 1997, 1998, and 1999. He is widely considered to be one of the best European point guards of the decade of the 1990s.

Karasev was the starting point guard of the senior men's Russian national basketball team between 1993 and 2003. With Russia's national team, Karasev won two FIBA EuroBasket medals, the silver medal at the EuroBasket 1993 and the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 1997. He also won two FIBA World Cup silver medals, one at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, and one at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

At the 1998 FIBA World Championship, he was selected to the All-Tournament Team.

Vasily is the father of former Triumph Lyubertsy, Russian NT player, and current Brooklyn Net (NBA) Sergey Karasev.