Kristaps Valters

Kristaps Valters (born 1981) is a Latvian professional basketball guard, who plays for Unicaja Málaga. He is also a member of the Latvian national basketball team. His father is a former Soviet basketball star, Valdis Valters, and his brother, Sandis Valters, plays professional basketball too.

Club career

He first played professionally in 1998, for ASK/Brocēni/LMT. In 2000, Valters signed his first foreign contract, with Antalya Büyükşehir Belediyesi, but played there only one season. He then returned to the Latvian Basketball League, signing a two-year contract with the newly-created team Skonto. In 2003, he played in the NBA Summer League for the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the fall of that year, he return to Europe and played for Panionios.

Valters did not stay there for long and in December 2004, he returned to play for Skonto. From 2004 to 2006, he played for the German Federal League club EWE Baskets Oldenburg. Then he went to Italy and played for Pallalcesto Amatori Udine.

In 2007, he signed a contract with Scafati Basket, but never played there because he was injured and the team terminated his contract. In November 2007, Valters signed with Triumph Lyubertsy. In the summer of 2008, he signed a contract with Fuenlabrada and had a breakout season. The team wanted to retain Valters and offered him a three-year contract for about two million dollars, but Valters opted to sign a two-year contract with DKV Joventut in July 2009. In August 2010 he returned to Baloncesto Fuenlabrada.^[1] For the 2011-12 season he signed with Unicaja Málaga.^[2]

References

External links

• Eurobasket Profile
• ACB.com Profile