Domantas Sabonis

Domantas Sabonis
Player information
birthday	May 3, 1996
place of birth	Portland , Oregon , United States
size	211 cm
Weight	109 kg
position	Center / Power Forward
college	Gonzaga
NBA draft	2016 , 11th pick, Orlando Magic
Club information
society	Indiana Pacers
league	NBA
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
2012–2014 CB Málaga 2012–2013 → CB Axarquía 2016–2017 Oklahoma City Thunder Since 2017 Indiana Pacers  00  0
National team
Since 02015	Lithuania

Domantas Sabonis (born May 3, 1996 in Portland , Oregon ) is a professional Lithuanian basketball player who is currently under contract with the Indiana Pacers in the NBA . He played for Gonzaga University in the American college league NCAA . Sabonis is 211 cm tall and is mostly used in the center position. He is the son of Arvydas Sabonis , who is considered the best Lithuanian basketball player in history and is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame .

Career

Domantas Sabonis was born in Portland, USA when his father Arvydas was active for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association . After the father's career ended, the family moved to Spain, where Domantas played for various youth teams at the CB Málaga . In 2012/13 he was active in the LEB Plata for CB Axarquía and rose with this club, which maintains a cooperation with Málaga, in the LEB Oro , the second highest division in Spain. Although he was only 16 years old at the time, Sabonis made his debut for the first team of CB Málaga in a friendly against KK Cibona Zagreb on September 5, 2012 , but ultimately without being included in the season squad. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, he was the youngest player in the history of the club in Malaga, in a game in the ACB league .

In the summer of 2014, Sabonis announced that he would play college basketball at Gonzaga University in the future . He played an important role at the bank in his freshman year of college and was one of the top freshmen at the WCC Conference. He scored 9.7 points and 7.1 rebounds on average. After a strong sophomore season with 17.6 points and 11.8 rebounds on average, Sabonis decided to leave Gonzaga and sign up for the NBA draft .

In the 2016 NBA draft , Sabonis was selected in 11th place by the Orlando Magic and then transferred to the Oklahoma City Thunder with Victor Oladipo and Ersan Ilyasova for Serge Ibaka . Sabonis made his debut in the NBA on October 26, 2016 in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers , where he contributed 5 points in 16 minutes to the win. At the end of the season, Sabonis had an average of 5.9 points and 3.6 rebounds. After only one year he was transferred from the Thunder to the Indiana Pacers together with Oladipo for Paul George . At the Pacers, Sabonis developed into an important support in the young Pacer team. In 2020 Sabonis was invited to the NBA All-Star Game as the second Lithuanian after Žydrūnas Ilgauskas (2003 & 2005) .

National team

Domantas Sabonis made his national team debut at the U-16 European Championship in 2012, where he averaged 14.1 points, 14.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. On July 27, 2012, he reached the maximum number of rebounds (27 in one match). In 2013 Sabonis took part in the U-18 European Championship.

At the European basketball championship in 2015 he reached the final of the European championship with the professional team of Lithuania . In the final, however, they lost to Spain 63-80.

Awards

• NBA All-Star : 2020
• Lithuania's Player of the Year: 2018, 2019

title

• Runner-up at European Championships: 2015

Medals
Country: Lithuania
European championships
silver	2015 France	Lithuania

Web links

• Domantas Sabonis - player profile on NBA.com
• Domantas Sabonis - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Domantas Sabonis - player profile in the league ACB (Spanish)
• SABONIS, DOMANTAS - player profile in the Euroleague (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/arvydas-sabonis/
2. ↑ Sabonis debiutavo "Unicaja" komandoje (Lithuanian)
3. ↑ Larsen, Sabonis Steal Spotlight In ACB In: fibaeurope.com , October 14, 2013, accessed on October 18, 2013 (English).
4. ↑ Domas Sabonis Signs Men's Basketball Letter-Of-Intent ( Memento from April 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Thunder: Ibaka goes - Oladipo comes!
6. ^ Report: Paul George traded to Oklahoma City Thunder before free agency starts
7. ↑ D. Sabonis (Lithuania)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.