According to DJ Stephens, he was the last member of Prometey’s formidable team not to have found a buyer following the premature interruption of their European adventure due to the Russian invasion. Like the Fos-Provence winger or Slava Petrov, recruited by Antibes, Denys Lukashov (1.97 m, 32 years old) was able to take advantage of a market opportunity to come and end the season in France. The Ukrainian combo-guard has joined Nancy, where he will take on the role of medical freelancer for Ludovic Beyhurst, who has just had surgery.
“The team is in place, it is doing a lot of good things”, justifies Sylvain Lautié, the Lorraine coach. “We were therefore looking for a player who was not going to change everything but would perfectly add to the squad, accepting variable playing time depending on the match. Denys is therefore this player! His passing game, and his sense of pick & roll will be a great additional asset to our team. »
A very nice catch for the SLUC as the native of Donetsk is a size of Ukrainian basketball: MVP of the local championship in 2015 under the colors of Budivelnyk kyiv (14.9 points at 58%, 6.1 rebounds and 5.4 assists ), certainly at a time when the level had largely dropped because of the war, but above all still an important link in titled teams (double champion of Ukraine, double winner of the Ukrainian Cup, winner of the Lithuanian Cup ) and a continuous member of the national team since 2009.
Still valuable in Prometey’s rotation this season (7.2 points at 46%, 2.9 rebounds and 3 assists in an average of 25 minutes), Denys Lukashov will not be disoriented by expatriation. He has already evolved abroad, successively defending the colors of Avtodor Saratov, Lietuvos Rytas and Enisey Krasnoyarsk. “He’s a very good guy, a great teammate,” Vyacheslav Bobrov, his friend from Nanterre, told us. “He’s very intelligent, he hasn’t been the main point guard for our team for so many years for nothing. He’s also a real warrior, he likes to fight on the court. “Either a profile similar to that of Ludo Beyhurst. Everything Nancy needed to validate her return to Betclic ÉLITE… “I think they made a good choice,” concludes the interior of Nanterre.
