Maxim Alekseevich Karvanen (born October 30, 1999, Saint Petersburg) is a Russian basketball player, a power forward. In the 2022/2023 season he played for the Nizhny Novgorod club "Pari NN" in the VTB United League.[2]

Career before moving to Nizhny Novgorod

Karvanen began playing basketball at Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve No. 1 in the Admiralteysky District of Saint Petersburg. In 2016 he joined the Zenit system, with which he won bronze at the 2016/2017 Youth Basketball League Championship. In February 2017 he took part in the "Young Stars Game."[2] In the 2018/2019 season he played for CSKA-Junior and won silver in the VTB United Youth League, after which he returned to Zenit and played 35 games for the youth squad (averaging 5.5 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game).[2] In 2020 he signed a contract with Zenit's main team and made his VTB United League debut in a game against Kalev: in seven minutes on the court he scored 6 points.[2] In May 2019 he was called up for games with the Russian U20 youth national team.[2]

In the 2021/2022 season Karvanen started out at Zenit, playing three VTB United League games, and at the end of March 2022 he moved to Avtodor on loan. For the Saratov club he played seven games, including three playoff games against UNICS, averaging 3.7 points and 2.7 rebounds per game.[3]

At Pari NN

From August 15, 2022, Karvanen was with Pari NN on a tryout, and after two weeks of training he signed a three-year contract with the club.[2] In the 2022/2023 season he played 3 games for the Nizhny Novgorod team in the VTB United League.[5] In January 2023 he was sent on loan to Rusichi.[5] In June 2023 he left Nizhny Novgorod and moved to Universitet-Yugra to play in the Super League.[5]

Sources

  1. play.google.com — The Second Mechanic. Convention Plus
  2. nn-basket.ru — Maksim Karvanen Moves to Pari NN — BC "Nizhny Novgorod" (archive)
  3. sports.ru — Maksim Karvanen Becomes a Nizhny Novgorod Player. Three-Year Contract (archive)
  4. behance.net — Maksim Stepanenkov — Calligraphy, Craft brushes, Web developer in Nizhny Novgorod resident, Russian Federation
  5. sports.ru — Maksim Karvanen — power forward, 26 years old, height and weight, photos and videos, basketball player biography on Sports.ru