Šarūnas Marčiulionis
Marčiulionis during his masterclass visit in Armenia (June 2014)
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June 13, 1964 Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Nationality | Lithuanian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 1987 / Round: 6 / Pick: 127th overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected by the Golden State Warriors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1981–1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 13, 30, 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1981–1989 | Statyba (Soviet Union) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1994 | Golden State Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Seattle SuperSonics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Sacramento Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Denver Nuggets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Points | 4,631 (12.8 ppg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebounds | 819 (2.3 rpg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assists | 807 (2.2 apg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basketball Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIBA Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis ([ˈrɐ̂ˑɪ̯mɔndɐs ʂɐˈrûːnɐs mɐrʲt͡ʃʊˈlʲôːnʲɪs]) (born June 13, 1964) is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player. Born in Kaunas, he was one of the first Europeans to become a regular in the National Basketball Association (NBA). On August 8, 2014, Marčiulionis was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.
In the 1988 Seoul Olympics Basketball Tournament, together with teammate Arvydas Sabonis, Marčiulionis led the USSR national team to the gold medal. With the Lithuanian national team, he won two Olympic bronze medals in 1992 and 1996. He was an All-EuroBasket Team member and the EuroBasket MVP in 1995, and had been elected to the All-EuroBasket Team in 1987.
Marčiulionis was the second son of Laimutė, a geography teacher, and Juozas, an engineer. Given Laimutė aggravated her spinal injury giving birth to his sister Zita, her determination in having a son led to the middle name Šarūnas, invoking a legendary knight from Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius's works. Growing up in Kaunas, Marčiulionis took up tennis growing up, being an ambidextrous player focused on forehands. Given the unorthodox technique and an increasingly bulkier frame, he eventually gave up on the sport. At the age of 13, following an hospitalization caused by makeshift explosives, Marčiulionis changed to basketball. In a Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic struck by poverty and degradation, he and his friends had to build their own outdoor basketball court on a parking lot. As he moved to Vilnius to study journalism at Vilnius State University of Vincas Kapsukas and possibly try out for the Soviet junior national team, all Marčiulionis' parents could provide him was "one bag containing a very small amount of clothes, and another full of apples.”
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