US media: I. Sargiūnas, who left the varsity team, does not intend to continue his basketball career



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One of the most promising Lithuanian talents Ignas Sargiūnas decided not to pursue a career in basketball.

In 2018, the defender, who grew up in the Kaunas “Žalgiris” system, transferred to the National College Athletes Association (NCAA), where he joined the University of Georgia Bulldogs team. After a failed season, he decided to move to the Colorado State University Rams team, which meant he had to go a year without basketball.

Journalist Kevin Lytle, who reviews the affairs of this university, announced that the Lithuanian had left the team and had no intention of pursuing a career as a basketball player.

“Lithuania decided to leave the team. Coach Niko Medvedas said that Sargiūnas simply decided that he had no passion for basketball and that he would no longer play this sport,” the American announced.

I. Sargiūnas is one of the most talented Lithuanians born in 1999, together with Arnas Velička he led the team of his generation to victory. In 2015, she won silver at the European Sixteen Championship and a year later she won bronze at the seventeen-year-old World Championship. With an eighteen-year-old team, he even managed to win two medals: silver in 2016 and bronze in 2017.

In the last successful season, the 193 cm tall 21-year-old defender played in Lithuania, when in 2017-2018 he represented the Kaunas Žalgiris-2 team and the NKL accumulated 10.3 points (25 percent from three points), 2 rebounds and 2.7 assists. transmission.

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