Club career Pavel first appeared in a
Úrvalsdeild karla game on 6 March 1998, at the age of only 11, when his father and head coach of
Körfuknattleiksfélag ÍA,
Alexander Ermolinskij, selected him for the 10-man squad against
Njarðvík. At the time there were no rules regarding minimum age of players in the league. His next taste of the senior team was with
Skallagrímur during the
2001–02 season when he appeared in 15 games, averaging 1.8 points per game. During the
2014-2015 season, Pavel averaged a
triple-double in the Úrvalsdeild with 13.3 points, 10.5 rebounds and 10.3 assists per game in 15 regular season games. Pavel led the Úrvalsdeild karla in assists during the
2017-2018 season. On 28 April 2018 he won his sixth Icelandic championship after KR defeated Tindastóll in the
Úrvalsdeild finals. It was the eighteenth straight playoffs series he won in the Úrvalsdeild playoffs. After sitting out the first three games of the
2018–2019 season, Pavel resumed training with KR in end of October. On 4 May 2019 he won his 7th national championship after KR beat
ÍR in the Úrvalsdeild finals 3–2. On 13 August 2019, Pavel signed a 2-year contract with KR's Reykjavík rivals
Valur. He started the season strong, with big fourth quarter performances in victories against
Fjölnir and
Þór Þorlákshöfn. On 25 October, he scored the game winning three pointer with 5 seconds left in an overtime victory against
Tindastóll. On 5 January 2020, Pavel was 1 assist shy of the Úrvalsdeild record when he handed out 17 assists in a victory against
Fjölnir. On 6 May 2022, he played his 100th Úrvalsdeild playoffs game when Valur defeated
Tindastóll in game one of the 2022 Úrvalsdeild finals. On 18 May 2022, he won his eight national championship after Valur defeated Tindastóll in the Úrvalsdeild finals. On 22 August 2022, Pavel announced he would not return to Valur and in October, he announced his retirement from playing.
National team career Pavel has played with the Icelandic national basketball team since 2004 and participated in
EuroBasket 2015 and
EuroBasket 2017. ==Coaching career==