Vladimir stepania biography
Vladimir stepania biography
Vladimir Stepania, Basketball Player, Stats, Height, Age ...!
Vladimir Stepania
Georgian basketball player
Vladimir Stepania (born 8 May 1976) is a retired Georgian professional basketball player.
He played at the center position.
Professional career
After starting to play basketball in his native country, Stepania played several years in Slovenia, namely with Olimpija Ljubljana, partnering with another center, Rasho Nesterović, in his first year.
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics, late in the first round of the 1998 NBA draft, Stepania became the first Georgian player to play in the NBA. For six seasons, in which he was a backup, he represented the Sonics, the New Jersey Nets, the Miami Heat, and the Portland Trail Blazers, averaging 4.1 points (with a total of 1,118 points scored) and 4.4 rebounds per game, in 270 regular season games.
His best season was in 2002–03, with the Heat, in which he averaged 5.6 points and seven rebounds per game, battling for position in a club which had lost Alonzo Mourning for the year, with a