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Alantas Sabonis will participate in the NBA All-Star game for the second time in a row next night in Atlanta, repeating the achievement of Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, a veteran Cleveland Cavaliers center.
No other Lithuanian in history has played in the middle of the symbolic battle of the season’s best NBA basketball players.
The 24-year-old son of the country’s legendary basketball player Arvydas Sabonis captures another season of his career in Indianapolis and continues to assert his status as the best Lithuanian basketball player at this time.
And how was everything at the beginning of your career?
15 minutes reached out to former friends and team coaches of D. Sabonis on the U16 and U18 national teams, who had the opportunity to be the first to see up close the potential and mature personality of the current Indiana Pacers wizard.
D. Sabonis first appeared in Lithuanian basketball heaven in 2011, when the 15-year-old team coached by Gintaras Razutis triumphed at the Turkish Olympic Festival. Sabas from Spain was late for the team, but that didn’t stop him from showing his talent right away.
In the winning final, he scored 15 points and bounced 13 balls.
As he says 15 minutes According to sources, Saba had already arrived at the first camp properly prepared, the only one of all the players who had two phones because he knew that he would soon have to say goodbye to the first.
Coaches of youth teams who emphasize discipline and discipline usually dial the phones so that young players are not distracted and focus only on basketball.
But Saba knew it and bypassed the system so that in her free time she could continue to communicate regularly with the girl who stayed in Spain.
“Maybe he knew about phone pickup and came ready for it? We were ready one way and he was ready another way, ”he said. 15 minutes said the current head coach of Kaunas “Žalgiris” substitutes Arvydas Gronskis, who worked as an assistant in the fifteen-year-old team, laughing.
This wasn’t the last time the Dom failed to abide by the rules. Do you know the tradition of the “ten birds”?
Photo by Alfredas Pliadis / Domantas Sabonis and Antanas Krimelis
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