Mindaugas Lukauskis

Mindaugas Lukauskis
No. 8 – Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius
Position Shooting guard / Small forward
League Lithuanian Basketball League
Baltic Basketball League
Personal information
Born May 19, 1979
Panevėžys, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Nationality Lithuanian
Listed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight 210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
NBA draft 2001 / Undrafted
Pro career 1996–present
Career history
1996–2001 Panevežys
2001–2002 Sakalai
2002–2003 Alytus
2003–2009 Lietuvos Rytas
2009–2010 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
2010–2011 EWE Baskets Oldenburg
2011–2012 Sigma Barcellona
2012 Valencia BC
2013 Tofaş
2013 Bilbao Basket
2013–2014 Prienai TonyBet
2014–present Lietuvos Rytas
Career highlights and awards
  • 2× ULEB Cup Champion (2005, 2009)
  • 3× BBL Champion (2006, 2007, 2009)
  • 2× LKL Champion (2006, 2009)
  • 3× LKL All-Star (2008, 2009, 2014)
  • 2x LKF Cup Champion (2009, 2014)
  • LKF Cup MVP (2014)

Mindaugas Lukauskis (born May 19, 1979) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Lietuvos Rytas.

Basketball career

Lukauskis began his basketball career in the Panevežys youth basketball clubs, being the leader there. He got attention from the LKL, and in 2001, he joined Sakalai. In 2002, he signed a one year contract with Alytus, and he was the top scorer on the team. In 2003, he joined Lithuanian basketball giant Lietuvos Rytas. In 2006, Lukauskis improved his game and alongside Tomas Delininkaitis he gave Rytas a strong impact off the bench. In the 2007 season, he became a starting player. Lukauskis was a member of the Lithuanian national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On August 16, 2008, when Lithuania played against Croatia in the Olympics, Lukauskis helped Lithuania to win the game by scoring 20 points.

In the Eurocup Final 8 on April 4, 2009, Lukauskis made a decisive, game-winning, 10 meters distance three-pointer and that allowed him to become the only player to participate in the Eurocup Final three times in total. He then went on to become the only two-time Eurocup champion. In July 2009, he joined the French League club ASVEL.[1][2] In September 2010 he signed with the German Eurocup-Team Baskets Oldenburg.[3]

After spending a season with Italy's Barcellona Sigma of Legadue, in September 2012 Lukauskis moved to Valencia Basket for signing contract during the injury of Thomas Kelati.[4]

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

Note: The Euroleague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season, he also played in domestic competition.

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2005–06 Lietuvos Rytas 19 0 14.4 .400 .361 .652 3.2 .8 .8 .1 4.3 5.1
2007–08 Lietuvos Rytas 20 18 23.3 .500 .365 .744 2.6 2.1 1.5 .1 8.4 8.2
2009–10 ASVEL 10 10 30.1 .677 .273 .800 2.0 3.1 2.3 .3 8.1 11.1

Awards and achievements

References

  1. ↑ "ASVEL signs Mindaugas Lukauskis". Talkbasket.net/. Archived from the original on July 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ "ASVEL inks Eurocup champion Lukauskis". Sportando.net. July 17, 2009. Archived from the original on July 20, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ "EWE Baskets Oldenburg signs Lukauskis" (in German). EWE Baskets Oldenburg. September 14, 2010. Archived from the original on September 18, 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Valencia Basket llega a un acuerdo con Mindaugas Lukauskis" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on September 27, 2012.

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