MOSCOW, Sep 22, Pavel Levkovich. The budget of the CSKA basketball club in the season- 2022/23 will be reduced by at least 20% and will cease to be the largest in the VTB United League, said a source familiar with the situation.According to the source, the budget reduction is due to the fact that the general sponsor of the team, Norilsk Nickel, will cut financial investments in PBK CSKA. On Thursday, the VTB United League published the budgets of clubs participating in the league. The budget of CSKA was the largest and amounted to 2.809 billion rubles. Champion of the VTB United League last season, St. Petersburg «Zenith» took second place in the list with a budget of 2.43 billion rubles. In third place was the Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban (1.333 billion rubles).
