Uvis Helmanis

Uvis Helmanis
Player information
birthday	June 10, 1972
place of birth	Talsi, Soviet Union
size	204 cm
position	Power Forward / Small Forward
Clubs as active
1992–1994 Bonus Rīga 1995–1998 Metropole 1998–1999 ASK Broceni Rīga 1999–2000 Bobry Bytom 2000 Stal Ostrów 2001 Buki Gulbene 2001 Śląsk Wrocław 2001–2002 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2002–2006 GHP Bamberg 2006–2008 BK Ventspils 2008 ASK Riga 2009–2008 2010 Barons LMT Rīga 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team
Since 1999	Latvia
Clubs as coaches
2010 Barons LMT Rīga 2011 Energa Czarni Słupsk ( Co ) 2011–2013 BK VEF Rīga (Co) 2013–2016 Liepājas Lauvas 2016–2017 Valmiera / Ordo 2017–2018 BK Ogre (Co) 2018–2020 BC Lietuvos rytas (Co) since 2020 Basketball Löwen Erfurt00000 00000 0

Uvis Helmanis (* 10. June 1972 in Talsi , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian basketball coach and former poker players, not only in his homeland, but, among other professionally for some time in Germany worked with the Association of Bamberg 2005 German champion was . He previously played in Leverkusen. He made a total of 179 Bundesliga appearances. Most recently he was in his home country until 2010 with Barons LMT in Rīga in the first Latvian basketball league "LBL" under contract. He was then briefly coach of this team. A season later he was hired as assistant coach of the barons' local rivals, VEF Rīga, who were able to defend their championship title in 2012. For the 2013/14 season, Helmanis took on a new position as the responsible coach of the Latvian club BK Lauvas from Liepāja .

Career

Uvis Helmanis began his professional career in the summer of 1992 with Bonus Riga in Latvia's highest basketball league. After two years, the now 23-year-old Helmanis joined the Metropole association, for which he collected baskets for a total of three years before moving to ASK Broceni Riga, for which he was only active for one year.

After moving to Bobry Bytom in 1999, Helmanis had a very successful season, scoring an average of 15.8 points per game and was then appointed to the Latvian national basketball team, where he became a top performer and took part in several tournaments, including the European Championships in 1997 , 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. He was temporarily captain of the national team.

After a year Helmanis changed his club again and came to BK LMT Rīga, before he was transferred again and went basket hunting in Poland for a year . For the 2001/02 season Helmanis came by switching to the first basketball league at Bayer Leverkusen . Despite a very successful season in which he (including play-offs ) averaged 12.4 points per game, Helmanis left Leverkusen and joined GHP Bamberg after a year . He played for the Franconians for a total of four years and became German champion in 2005. In the championship year, Helmanis made 36 Bundesliga appearances with an average of 7 points and 3.9 rebounds per match. In the other years there, Helmanis reached the runner-up in Bamberg three times and was runner-up once. The Latvians then moved back to BK Ventspils in their home country . After a two-year engagement there and a short stay at ASK Riga, Helmanis moved to Barons LMT Rīga at the beginning of the 2009/10 season. He went basket hunting for the team until 2010.

Dangerous Bodily Injury Fine and Additional Bans

In September 2005, Helmanis and his then Bamberg playmates Mike Nahar and Steffen Hamann were sentenced to fines between € 13,000 and € 27,000 for jointly dangerous bodily harm . The court was convinced that the three actors had harassed a young woman in a pub. When her husband intervened, there was a scuffle in the course of which national player Hamann was injured in the forehead. Then the situation escalated. Already before and after this conviction, Helmanis drew attention to himself with his behavior in several BBL games: In 2004 he was banned from playing a game and sentenced to a fine of € 1000 after being punched in a Braunschweig player in the game between GHP Bamberg and BS Energy Braunschweig was expelled from the field. Furthermore, Helmanis was sentenced to three games suspension and a fine of 2000 € for assault in the play-off match against Telekom Baskets Bonn . Helmanis' ban was withdrawn because the allegations were found to be false.

Career as a coach

At the beginning of the 2010/2011 season, Uvis Helmanis was introduced as the new head coach of the Barons LMT Rīga. He had previously declared his active career over. After a short time he was released there and at the beginning of the year he became a coaching assistant at Energa Czarni in Słupsk, Poland . For the 2011/12 season Helmanis was then assistant coach to master VEF Rīga, who defended their title in 2012. For the 2013/14 season he was then the responsible coach of the Latvian club BK Lauvas from Liepāja . In the 2016/17 season he was in charge of the Valmiera / Ordo team and was then an assistant coach at BK Ogre for a year. He worked as a selection coach and was head coach of the Latvian U18 national team. From 2018 to 2020 he was assistant coach of BC Lietuvos rytas in Lithuania .

In August 2020 he became the coach of the German third division basketball Löwen Erfurt , and he kept his position as assistant coach of the Latvian men's national team.

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Uvis HELMANIS (LAT) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments ( English )
• HELMANIS, UVIS - player profile on the ULEB website (English, as of 2008)
• easyCredit BBL - Uvis Helmanis - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 1861 Uvis HELMANIS. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved August 18, 2020 . 
2. ^ Uvis Helmanis profile, EuroBasket 2009. Retrieved August 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ http://sportacentrs.com/basketbols/eirokausi/25072018-uvis_helmanis_klust_par_adomaisa_asistent
4. ↑ Thomas Meyer: A game ban for Uvis Helmanis. Schoenen-Dunk.de, February 17, 2004, accessed on October 19, 2012 (Medien-Info GHP Bamberg). 
5. ↑ Harsh punishments by the game management. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , May 6, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 19, 2012 .  ( 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.    
6. ^ Thomas Meyer: BBL arbitration court revises judgments. Schoenen-Dunk.de, May 10, 2006, accessed on October 19, 2012 (Medien-Info GHP Bamberg). 
7. ↑ Uvis Helmanis atkāpjas no "Valmiera / Ordo" Galvena Trenera amata. Retrieved August 18, 2020 (Latvian). 
8. ↑ BKOgre: Uvis Helmanis: “Katram klubam ļoti būtiska ir tā attīstības vīzija. "BK Ogre" es to redzu. " In: BK Ogre. November 3, 2017, accessed August 18, 2020 (Latvian). 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Uvis Helmanis is the new professional coach of the Basketball Löwen - BARMER 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (German).