Captain stays!
The Trinta Sports School and the CSKA youth project graduate played for several Russian clubs - Lokomotiv Rostov, Spartak St. Petersburg, UNICS and Lokomotiv-Kuban, but he spent most of his professional career in CSKA. In terms of the number of games in red-and-blue uniform (622) Nikita is the second in club history after Andrei Vorontsevich (696). In recent years, Kurbanov was a perennial starter for the Army Team, and in the Euroleague over the past five years, in terms of the number of starts (159), he is minimally trails only to Nick Calates (162).
Kurbanov played 13 seasons for CSKA. Together with Muscovites, the forward won three Euroleague titles (2006, 2016, 2019), became 11-time Russian champion and 7-time VTB United League champion, he was recognized as the Best Defensive Player and MVP in the VTB League playoffs (2017), played in the Russian (2007) and VTB League (2018, 2019, 2020) All-Star Games.
Nikita is the captain of our team since 2020.
Nikita Kurbanov, CSKA captain:
CSKA is my team, which helped me to become who I am, to win many titles. I feel responsible for my home club and I am glad that I remain valuable. I am sure that next year we will be strong again, we will again go on the path to titles. I will try to do my best for this.Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
I am very happy and I really thankful to the management and Nikita that we reached the agreement. Kurbanov is a living example for young Russian players. His job on the court is not described by the numbers but it is really valuable for our team. We wish Nikita to stay healthy and ready to play, to win much more with the team.
