BC Lietuvos Rytas
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| Nickname | Rytas | ||
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| Founded | 1997 (as Lietuvos Rytas) | ||
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| Location | Vilnius, Lithuania | ||
| Team colors | Black, White, Red |
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| President | Gedvydas Vainauskas | ||
| Team manager | Martynas Purlys | ||
| Head coach | Rimas Kurtinaitis | ||
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2 Eurocup 5 Lithuanian Championships 3 Lithuanian Cup 1 Lithuanian League cup 1 North European League 3 Baltic Championships 1 Baltic Presidents Cup |
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| Website | Official website | ||
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BC Lietuvos rytas, also known as Rytas, is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania. The club, founded in 1997 on the basis of another club, BC Statyba, is one of the most successful Lithuanian basketball clubs. Rytas, among other titles, have won two Eurocup titles, five Lithuanian League titles, three Lithuanian Cups and three Baltic Championships. Lietuvos Rytas plays their home games at 11,000-seat Siemens Arena and 2,500-seat Lietuvos rytas Arena. They also had a daughter club Perlas which was used for the development of young players, but after two seasons in LKL it was dissolved.
Lietuvos Rytas basketball club is connected with the Lietuvos rytas newspaper and owned by newspaper editor Gedvydas Vainauskas who is also the president of the club.
Some of the greatest Lithuanian basketball players have played for Lietuvos Rytas over the years including: Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Arvydas Macijauskas, Jonas Valančiūnas, Martynas Gecevičius, Renaldas Seibutis, Simas Jasaitis, Robertas Javtokas, Darius Songaila, Marijonas Petravičius, Rimantas Kaukėnas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Gintaras Einikis.
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