Baxter won the BEKO PBL MVP of the Round 20
Lonnie Baxter and Marcus Williams became the best players of the Round Top 5 in the second time straight. Williams won the MVP of the Round 19. This time the MVP title was taken by Lonnie Baxter, who helped his team to get a victory over Lokomotiv-Kuban in the Round 20.
Enisey center has played his best game in the season and made his sixth double-double with 27 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 blocked-shot. Also he made opponent players commit fouls on him 10 times. His rating is 35.
Another Enisey player Marcus Williams scored 25 points, made 8 assists, 6 rebounds and 4 steals. Williams gained second place in the Top 5 of the round with 32 points rating.
Dynamo center Alexey Zhukanenko has the equal rating as Williams and also gained the second place. Zhukanenko helped his team to get a victory over Krasnye Krylya with 23 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocked-shots and 2 dunks.
CSKA guard Jamont Gordon gained the fourth place with 28 rating points. Despite of CSKA defeat in Saint-Petersburg Gordon performed well with 24 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 blocked shot. His rating is 28.
The fifth is Nizhniy Novgorod guard Dmitriy Golovin. Young Russian player scored 15 points, made 5 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 blocked shot. Also 9 times he made opponent players commit fouls on him. His rating is 27.
Symbolic five. Round 20.
Marcus Williams (Enisey) – Dmitry Golovin (Nizhniy Novgorod) – Jamont Gordon (CSKA) – Alexey Zhukanenko (Dynamo) – Lonnie Baxter (Enisey).
BC Nizhny Novogorod head coach has been named the best coach of 2010/2011 season by the League.
BEKO PBL govering body has discussed possible merge of the league with VTB United league.
Spartak-Primorye from Vladivostok will play in the PBL next season if they are able to meet certain requierements.
The Moscow club is out of the top Russian league due to financial problems.
CSKA captain becomes the most valuable player of the post-season.
