height_ft death_date nationality birth_date cyears career_start years death_place cteam fiba_hof_player draft_year team image name hof_player career_position caption weight_lb birth_place nickname career_end height_in article_title
6 3 october 2013 soviet / russian 23 january 1944 1981 1999 -- 2004 -- 1982 1988 -- 1990 1990 -- 1993 1964 1964 -- 1967 1968 -- 1980 perm , russia cska -rrb- basket cassino -lrb- italy -rrb- ural great perm -lrb- moscow russia -rrb- -lrb- ussr -rrb- cska moscow -lrb- ussr 19955 1966 uralmash -rrb- sverdlovsk -lrb- ussr -rrb- cska moscow -lrb- ussr sergei belov 2012.jpg sergei belov Сергей Белов sergei-a-belov shooting guard sergei belov in the year 2012 . 180 nashchyokovo union , shegarsky district , tomsk oblast , soviet `` russia 's jerry west '' 1980 2.75 sergei belov

sergei belov

sergei alexandrovich belov -lrb- ; january 23 , 1944 -- october 3 , 2013 -rrb- was a professional basketball player , most noted for playing for the soviet union national basketball team at the olympic games .
belov was born in the village of nashchyokovo , shegarsky district , tomsk oblast , soviet union .
he trained at trud voluntary sports society , and later at armed forces sports society .
in 1968 , he became an honored master of sports of the ussr .
later , he became an honored coach of russia -lrb- 1995 -rrb- , and the president of the russian basketball federation -lrb- 1993 -- 98 -rrb- .
belov is considered to be one of the best non-american basketball players of all time .
he was given the honor of lighting the olympic cauldron with the olympic flame , during the 1980 summer olympics opening ceremony , in moscow .
in 1991 , fiba named him the best fiba player ever .
he became the first international player to be inducted into the naismith memorial basketball hall of fame on may 11 , 1992 .
he was inducted into the fiba hall of fame in 2007 .
he was named of the 50 greatest euroleague contributors in 2008 .
belov died on 3 october 2013 in perm , russia .
