Description
Rimas Kurtinaitis is a professional basketball coach, current head coach of the 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 tall. His former teams include ?algiris 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. In 2002-2006 years he took the position head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team, also from 2002?2006 he player four season as a player with BC Gala Baku, he was a player-coach. He became BC Sakalai head coach during the mid-2000s. In December 2007 he became head coach of Polish men's ?l?sk Wroc?aw basketball team. 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, Italy in a game against Khimky Moscow Region. [More at Wikipedia]
Born
May 15th, 1960 in Kaunas (Age 64)
Films
Teams
Élan Chalon (1996-1997) | Real Madrid Baloncesto (1993-1995) | Townsville Crocodiles (1993) | CB Peñas Huesca (1992) | BC Kyiv (1983-1989) | BC ?algiris (1983-1989) | BC Lietuvos rytas (1981-1983) | BC Baltai Kaunas | PBC Ural Great Perm | ?l?sk Wroc?aw | PBC CSKA Moscow | Asseco Prokom Gdynia | BC Khimki | BC Sakalai | BK VEF R?ga |
Last Changes
2023/09/15
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2019/03/01
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2011/06/30
Address Removed: Available to members only