Artūras Karnišovas

Artūras Karnišovas
Player information
birthday	April 27, 1971 (49 years and 125 days)
place of birth	Klaipėda , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union
size	204 cm
position	Small forward
college	Seton Hall University
Clubs as active
1987–1990 Statyba Vilnius 1990–1994 Seton Hall Pirates (NCAA) 1994–1995 Cholet Basket 1995–1997 FC Barcelona 1997–1998 Olympiacos 1998–2000 Fortitudo Bologna 2000–2002 FC Barcelona
National team
1992-1999	Lithuania

Artūras Karnišovas (born April 27, 1971 in Klaipėda ) is a Lithuanian former basketball player. The 2.04 m tall small forward was active from 1987 to 2002. Today Karnišovas works as general manager of the Denver Nuggets in the NBA .

Career

Karnišovas began his career in the Soviet era at Statyba Vilnius and moved to Seton Hall University in 1990 to play in the NCAA for four years . After a year in France with Cholet Basket Karnišovas went to FC Barcelona , with whom he won the Spanish championship for two years in a row and reached the final of the European championship cup. In 1997 he moved to Olympiacos in Greece. The following two years he worked for Fortitudo Bologna in Italy, where he was Italian champion in 2000. In 2000 Karnišovas returned to FC Barcelona, ​​with whom he won the championship and cup double. After another year there, he ended his career.

Karnišovas is the most successful scorer of the Lithuanian national team with 1453 points . He won the Olympic bronze medal with her in 1992 and 1996 . He also reached the final of the 1995 European Championship with the Lithuanian selection . At the 1997 European Championships , whose overall most successful scorer he was, the 1998 World Championships and the 1999 European Championships , Karnišovas was elected to the all-tournament team , but Lithuania did not reach the semi-finals in these tournaments.

At the beginning of 2008 Artūras Karnišovas belonged to a group of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the Euroleague basketball and / or basketball enthusiasts to determine fifty important figures in basketball in Europe , active in the period 1958 to 2008 and subsequently in Madrid in May 2008 ( Spain ). All the nominated players played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the Euroleague basketball and were each among the particularly prominent 'stars' of their national league teams.

After his career, Karnišovas returned to the United States and in 2003 took on a job as a scout with the Houston Rockets . From 2008 Karnišovas was responsible for the international scout department of the Rockets. In 2013 Karnišovas became General Manager Assistant at the Denver Nuggets . In 2017, he took over the position of General Manager of the Nuggets from Tim Connelly, who in turn became team president.

Since April 2020 he has worked as Vice President for Basketball Operations at the Chicago Bulls.

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: The All-Time Player Nominees. ( Memento of January 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​January 2, 2015. Accessed February 2, 2019.
2. Jump up ↑ Denver Nuggets Promote Tim Connelly and Arturas Karnisovas

Web links

• Artūras Karnišovas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )