Five weeks after agreeing to leave Russia’s CSKA Moscow and join the Phoenix Suns, Gabriel Iffe Lundberg was finally able to practice with the best team the NBA has to offer.
Quite the step up — a real ‘turning lemons into lemonade’ moment, to be sure. The 27-year old Lundberg, a native of Denmark, was a rotation player in his first Euroleague season for high-level CSKA Moscow when Russia decided to invade neighboring Ukraine.
Who is Iffe Lundberg, you ask?
Per the CSKABasket.com website after Lundberg signed a new contract with them last summer:
Danish National Team leader had a great 2020-21 season.