Basketball

Thursday night Artūras Gudaitis was added to the long list of Žalgiris Kaunas products to have been drafted into the NBA.

Basketball star Jonas Valančiūnas had an encounter with the police of Vilnius, Lithuania, who pulled over the tall man to inspect window tinting on his car.

Lithuanians from across Ireland came together in Dublin last weekend to play some ball and raise funds for children with cancer in the Basketball Day.

Antradienį Gran Kanarijoje (Ispanija) prasideda tarptautinė Europos jaunimo krepšinio treniruočių stovykla „Basketball Without Borders“ (BWB), kurią drauge su Tarptautine krepšinio federacija (FIBA) rengia Šiaurės Amerikos Nacionalinė krepšinio asociacija (NBA).

23-ią pergalę Vokietijos vyrų krepšinio pirmenybių XXXIII turo rungtynėse iškovojo ketvirtą vietą aštuoniolikos komandų turnyre užsitikrinęs Bonos „Telekom Baskets“ klubas su Tadu Klimavičiumi ir Benu Veikalu, svečiuose po dviejų pratęsimų 101:99 (20:23, 18:18, 31:11, 12:29, 11:11, 9:7) palaužęs try...

Maccabi Tel Aviv won yesterday at home against the Lithuanian champions Žalgiris in a close match 79:72. Jeremy Pargo paced Maccabi by 26 points while Artūras Milaknis with 19 points led Žalgiris. Žalgiris was always close to the Euroleague champs during the match, but it was not enough and the Lith...

Lithuanian basketball champions Žalgiris Kaunas succeeded in defeating Greek club Panathinaikos Athens in a tough Euroleague match 76-70. It was the Lithuanian club’s 100th Euroleague victory in this century.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing one of the great young prospects for the future in Lithuanian basketball, Domantas Sabonis.

Lithuanian legendary basketball player, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, who retired at the end of last season, will be formally crowned a Euroleague basketball legend this Thursday.

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Šarūnas Vasiliauskas is a 25-year-old Lithuanian basketball player. After being an important factor in bringing the fourth place for the Lithuanian team in the last world championships in Spain, the young point guard, who is playing now in a Polish club Trefi Spot, is ready to represent Lithuania ag...

Radvilė Autukaitė is the 23 year old Lithuanian basketball player who chose six years ago to take everything and live in the United States. After being in the 11th and 12th grades at Holderness Prep High School, she went on to study play for Virginia Intermont College. Even though being an important...

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Vince`as Vaughnas per savo naujausią pasirodymą ant raudonojo kilimo gavo daugiau negu tikėjosi. 44 metų aktoriui veikiausiai pavydėjo visi vyrai, kai jis antradienį per filmo „Wedding Ringer“ („Pabrolių nuoma“) premjerą Holivude įsiterpė tarp seksualiųjų realybės šou sesučių Glorios ir Lauros Govan...

NBA star Jonas Valančiūnas has continued to be recognised by his national fans after receiving his third LKF (Lithuanian Basketball Federation) national player of the year title in four years.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated one of the best basketball players in history, now President of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation Arvydas Sabonis on his 50th birthday. The president thanked Sabonis for his meaningful public work and invaluable merits to Lithuania.

Pirmadienio popietę viename sostinės bare vyko auksinių ir platininių diskų teikimas. Populiariausi šalies atlikėjai buvo apdovanoti už 2009-2013 m. išleistus albumus.

Most of the players in the Lithuanian basketball club Neptūnas have grown up in the city of Klaipėda, which has a little more than 150,000 inhabitants. The majority of them went to the same school, to the same grade and used to play in the same high school team. Years later, those kids who have beco...

While sports stars often make it into media's fashion pages, it is much rarer to read their outfit choices as statements on anything more than personal style. One therefore could wonder whether Norwegian chess master and world champion Magnus Carlsen is making a point by sporting an iconic Lithuania...

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