Historic Paulius Jankūnas – Entered one of the most honorable records in the Euroleague Euroleague

The 36-year-old from Žalgiris reached the record by running on the parquet at the OAKA stadium in Athens.

This duel of “Žalgiris” with “Panathinaikos” by P. Jankūnas was already the 354th in his entire Euroleague career.

Before the match in Greece, P. Janūnas shared 1-2 spots with Real Madrid legend Felipe Reyes. The 40-year-old Spaniard participated in the only Euroleague game this season. Symbolic – against Kaunas “Žalgiris” and P.Jankūnas.

It is also very symbolic that P. Jankūnas began his march in the Euroleague with the match against Panathinaikos.

On November 6, 2003, 19-year-old P. Jankūnas got up from the bench to score 12 points in 28 minutes, bounced 6 balls, made 3 assists and scored 19 utility points, and Žalgiris, represented by Arvydas Sabonis, beat Panathinaikos.

Of the participants in those matches, no other Žalgiris player plays professional basketball. Meanwhile, Yannis Gagaloudis, the only PAO player, continues his career: the 42-year-old striker from the second Greek league wears the outfit of Maroussi from Athens. Fragiskos Alvertis, who was pushed with P. Jankūnas in the Kaunas Sports Hall penalty area 17 years ago, is now one of the hosts of the Panathinaikos club.

Since those games, P.Jankūnas has played a total of 7,785 minutes in the Euroleague, fewer than Vassilis Spanoulis (9,02 minutes, 336 games), Juan Carlos Navarro (8,197 minutes, 341 games) and Dimitris Diamantidis (7,967 minutes, 278 games) .

P.Jankūnas also holds the Euroleague record in terms of total rebounds (1848), defensive rebounds (1325) and the most games in the starting five (274).

P.Jankūnas, who plays in the Euroleague in season 18, competes after 13 minutes, the average profit. 2.6 points, bounces 2.7 points and accumulates 3.2 utility points.