James Anderson arrived to the city early, later Honeycutt, Gill and Jenkins landed in Sheremetyevo. Next, a flight from Belgrade brought Stefan Markovic to Moscow, and a few minutes later head coach Georgios Bartzokas and his assistants arrived.

Tomorrow morning the players will pass their medical examinations, while the first training session is scheduled for Saturday.

Alexey Shved, Andrey Zubkov and Marko Todorovic will not be able to help BC Khimki, as at the moment, they continue preparing for the EuroBasket.

In the words of Bartzokas: “I’m very happy [to join Khimki]. For me and my career it’s a great opportunity. I worked in Russia in the past and have great experience. So I’m looking forward to start the season. Khimki is completely different right now; except Shved, Monya, Vyaltsev and Honeycutt we don’t have many players from the past. It’s a new team with big ambitions. In a new EuroLeague format it will be a completely different situation. So I’m very positive about the team. I think we have good players and need just to become a team. Now we’ll have preseason work and it’s a normal process. We have about six weeks to prepare the team. We have new persons, new coaching staff, new foreign players, but as I’ve said, I’m very positive. We have a strong team with good characters. We have to work hard every day to know each other better. The players will have to adjust to my philosophy. I’m very happy with the players that we signed during the preseason [time]. I’m sure we gonna have a very strong team. Of course, we need a little bit luck and health. I’m sure we’ll have a great season”.