Talk:Arvydas Sabonis

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Comments needs photo, more info from his life too apart of basketball M.K. 16:41, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] stay in Moscow?

I checked on TEKA Moscu. hoopshype.com thinks it's TSKA Moscow [1], eurobasket says he was out with an injury for the entire 1987/88 season and there is one more website saying he never played in Moscow. It's probably the best to leave it out, as you did. Andris 19:47, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I couldn't find anything remotely reliable about that. --Shallot 20:02, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
I thought about it more and it's most likely that Sabonis never left Zalgiris for another team in Soviet Union. I'm from Latvia and I used to follow Zalgiris at that time. I would have probably heard if Sabonis had left for another team. Andris 20:12, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I'm from Lithuania, I grew up watching Sabonis and Zalgiris victories in Soviet Union. CSKA (not TEKA or TSKA) Moscow is the sport club of soviet army (football, basketball and other sections). The best young basketball players should play there at least 2 years instead of defending the country in real army with real guns. Sabonis avoided that as he was officially studying in Kaunas Agroculture University (at that time students were released from going to army), so he never played in CSKA Moscow.

[edit] Gigantism

I was curious if anyone knows whether Arvydas had pituitary gigantism or acromegaly, a condition which makes people grow tall and large like Andre the Giant?

[edit] Doesn't have gigantism

Sabonis does not have acromegaly or gigantism. He is simply a very tall and big individual. There are other giant men from Lithuania such as Zydrunas Illgauskas, who is also 7 ft 3.

[edit] Sabonis: The Dimmensions of a Giant

Arvydas R. Sabonis Assumed current physical stats:

Ht. (assumed without shoes): 7 ft 3 ins [220cm]

Wt. NBA Listing: 292 lbs [132kg]

Wt. (current) approx. 340 lbs [154kg]

Shoes: U.S. Men's size 18 [36cm]

Wingspan: approx. 7 ft 3 ins[222 cm]

Reach: approx. 9 feet 5 ins [282cm]


Actually, He was measured at 7 ft 3 1/4, WITH shoes on, back in April 1996. He is assumed to stand about 7'1.5" barefoot. Some 90% of NBA players are listed on the roster with their height IN shoes. Yet, they are allowed to be measured barefoot if they so choose. For example, Yao Ming is a legitimate 7'6 barefoor, and Georghe Muressan is a barefoot 7 ft 7.

[edit] Foreign name?

This man must obviously have a foreign name, but only his English name is listed. Does he have Russian (or some other language) name? Can soemone add it? Hbdragon88 07:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

No, Arvydas Sabonis is his name in both Lithuanian and English and it's written in his passport. Russian has nothing to do here. He's not Russian. Renata 13:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry. I just thought it was unusual to only have one name. Hbdragon88 20:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

He does have a middle name, his full name is Arvydas Romas Sabonis.

Amdamen 10:28, 7 may 2006 (UTC)

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