Victor Rudd is an American professional basketball player, a power forward, born on March 18, 1991, in Los Angeles (USA). In the 2015/16 season he played for the Nizhny Novgorod basketball club "Nizhny Novgorod" in the VTB United League and the EuroCup, where he became one of the team's top scorers.[3]

Career

Rudd began his collegiate career in the NCAA: in 2009/10 he played for Arizona State, and then from 2011 to 2014 for South Florida. In the 2014/15 season he played for the Delaware 87ers in the NBA Development League (D-League).[3]

In the 2015/16 season, Rudd joined BC Nizhny Novgorod. In March 2016 he was named VTB United League Player of the Month: in five regular-season games in March he averaged 20.4 points, 9.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists, and a 23.8 efficiency rating, and the team won four of those five games.[1] Earlier, in February of that year, in the victorious EuroCup round-of-16 game against Zenit, Rudd recorded 28 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1 steal (a 32 efficiency rating) and was named MVP of that stage of the tournament.[2] At the end of the season the forward was named to the EuroCup All-Second Team.[3] When he received the Player of the Month award, Rudd noted that it was his first individual honor in his professional career.[1]

After Nizhny Novgorod, Rudd played for Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel, 2016/17), Gaziantep (Turkey, 2017), CSKA (February–June 2017), Turin (Italy, 2018), Capitanes de Arecibo (Puerto Rico, 2019), Würzburg (Germany, 2019/20), Stal (Poland, 2020), and a number of other clubs in Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Since 2023 he has been on the roster of the Gigantes de Carolina (Puerto Rico).[3]

Achievements

  • VTB United League MVP of the Month (March 2016) — playing for BC Nizhny Novgorod.[1]
  • MVP of the first games of the EuroCup Round of 16 (February 2016) — playing for BC Nizhny Novgorod.[2]
  • EuroCup All-EuroCup Second Team (2016) — playing for BC Nizhny Novgorod.[3]
  • Israeli State Cup winner (2017) and participant in the Israeli All-Star Game (2017) — playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv.[3]
  • Finalist of the Basketball Champions League Americas (2022) — playing for Biguá (Uruguay).[3]

Sources

  1. V gorode N — Nizhny Novgorod forward Viktor Rudd named the VTB United League's best player of March
  2. Vremya N — BC NN player Viktor Rudd becomes MVP of the first games of the EuroCup Round of 16
  3. cskabasket.ru — Viktor Rudd — PBC CSKA (archive)
  4. rsport.ria.ru — Viktor Rudd — biography, personal life, and career (archive)