Rimas Kurtinaitis
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| No. 10,12 |
| Shooting guard |
| Personal information |
| Born |
May 15, 1960 (1960-05-15) (age 51)
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR |
| Nationality |
 Lithuanian |
| Career information |
| Pro career |
1981–1999 |
| Career history |
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As Player
As Coach
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| Career highlights and awards |
- 5-time USSR League Champion 1982,1983,1985,1986,1987
- ACB Champion - 1994
- LKL All-Star game MVP - 1995
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| Career statistics |
| Points |
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| Rebound |
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| Assists |
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Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a professional basketball coach, head coach of the BC Khimki, retired Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player who was a member of the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams. He played as a shooting guard and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All-Star Three Point Contest in 1989. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall. His former teams include Žalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid. Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import in Australia's National Basketball League, playing for the Townsville Suns in 1993.
In 1997 he was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport, and in 2003 he took the position of head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team.
He became BC Sakalai head coach during the mid 2000s (decade). In December 2007 he became head coach of Polish men's Śląsk Wrocław basketball team.[1] In 2008 he became head coach of BC Lietuvos Rytas with whom he won the 2009 Eurocup Basketball title in the Final-Eight tournament in Turin(Torino), Italy in a game against Khimky Moscow Region (Final score 80-74).
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As head coach:
[edit] References
- ^ "EUROBASKET - Lithuanian basketball". Eurobasket.net. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20070509133853/http://www.eurobasket.com/ltu/ltu.asp. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Kurtinaitis, Rimas |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
Basketball player |
| Date of birth |
1960-05-15 |
| Place of birth |
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| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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Lithuanian
Soviet Union
