Šarūnas Marčiulionis

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Basketball player
Šarūnas Marčiulionis
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Player information
Full name Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis
birthday 13th June 1964 (age 56)
place of birth Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union
size 196 cm
Weight 91 kg
position Shooting Guard
NBA draft 1987 , 127. Pick , Golden State Warriors
Clubs as active
1981–1989 BC Statyba 1989–1994 Golden State Warriors 1994–1995 Seattle SuperSonics 1995–1996 Sacramento Kings 1996–1997 Denver NuggetsSoviet UnionSoviet Union
United StatesUnited States
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National team
1982-1990 1990-1996Soviet UnionSoviet Union
Lithuania 1989Lithuania 		USSR
Lithuania

Audio file / audio sample Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis ? / i (bornJune 13, 1964inKaunas,Lithuanian SSR) is a formerLithuanianbasketball player who was active from 1989 to 1997 in the North American professional leagueNBA.

Together with Arvydas Sabonis , he belonged to the golden generation of Lithuanian basketball players who, from the early 1980s, earned numerous successes , first for the Soviet Union and from 1991 for the again independent Lithuania . Both have since been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (Sabonis in August 2011, Marčiulionis 2014).

youth

At the age of ten, Šarūnas Marčiulionis began to train in Kaunas basketball. In 1981, at the age of 17, he moved to the capital and played there for the Statyba Vilnius club . From 1983 he was a member of the Soviet national team , with which he won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games .

In addition to his basketball career, Šarūnas Marčiulionis studied journalism , which he graduated from Vilnius University in 1986 .

Career

Player career

After the fall of the Iron Curtain , Marčiulionis was the first player from the former Soviet Union to move to the NBA. In the 1987 NBA draft , he was selected only 127th by the Golden State Warriors . There he completed four seasons as an important bank player and narrowly failed in 1992 and 1993 in the election for the NBA Sixth Man of the Year . In his best season with the Warriors, he averaged 18.9 points per game in 29.4 minutes per game.

Due to a serious injury, he sat out the 1993/94 season completely before he was transferred to the Seattle SuperSonics . For the last few years of his career he played in Sacramento with the Kings and the Nuggets of Denver.

Entrepreneurial activity

After his playing career ended in 1997, he returned to Lithuania as a businessman. There he owns, among other things, the hotel “Šarūnas” in Vilnius and shares in an event center.

He remained loyal to basketball, initially in 1992 with the establishment of a Marčiulionis basketball school in Vilnius. In 1993 he was instrumental in the introduction of the Lithuanian professional league LKL , of which he has been president ever since.

In 1999 he was in charge of founding the NEBL, the Northern European Basketball League , which brought clubs from Northern Europe together in one league until the 2002/03 season before it was continued in the form of the Baltic Basketball League . Together with Vlade Divac and Dražen Petrović , Marčiulionis can thus be seen as a pioneer of the later European top players in the NBA - such as Dirk Nowitzki , Peja Stojaković , Pau Gasol , Tony Parker .

Play style

With his unconditional will to win, Marčiulionis has always been the engine of his teams. He also demonstrated this ambition in terms of sports politics by organizing the formation of a Lithuanian national team from 1990 onwards . In 1992 and 1996 he won bronze with this team at the Olympic Games.

Personal

Marčiulionis is married for the second time. In 2012 he married the second time. His wife is Laura Mikelionytė, 17 years his junior, who works at his basketball academy and runs the UAB “Stars and Legends” sports bar.

From her first marriage to Ingrida Reinikova, Marčiulionis has a New York City-based daughter Kristė. He has the son Augusta with his girlfriend Sandra Chlevickaitė, Miss Lithuania 1996. The second daughter Urtė (* 2005) has Marčiulionis with his girlfriend Kotryna Kirdeikytė.

Titles and awards

Championships:

  • Olympic Games: 1988 gold with the Soviet Union, 1992 and 1996 bronze with Lithuania
  • European Championships : 1987 silver with the Soviet Union, 1995 silver with Lithuania
  • Other: 1982 Junior European Champion with the Soviet Union team, 1983 Junior World Champion with the Soviet Union team, 1985 Universiade Champion with the Soviet Union team

Awards:

  • 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991: Athlete of the Year in Lithuania
  • 1987: best player in the Soviet Union and in the all-star team at the European Championship
  • 1992: most valuable player in the Olympic Games
  • 1995: most valuable player in the European Championship
  • 2014: Induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Sarunas Marciulionis. Retrieved April 26, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Marčiulionis vedė savo mylimąją
  3. ↑ Š. Marčiulionis rado naują meilę
  4. ↑ Įmonės Stars And Legends, UAB sporto baras vadovas Laura Mikelionytė
  5. ↑ Šarūnas Marčiulionis vedė savo mylimąją Laurą Mikelionytę ( 15min )
personal data
SURNAME Marčiulionis, Šarūnas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marčiulionis, Reimondas Šarūnas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaunas