Rimas Kurtinaitis

Rimas Kurtinaitis

Kurtinaitis as the Khimki head coach
Lietuvos rytas Vilnius
Position	Head coach
League	Lithuanian Basketball League
Personal information
Born	(1960-05-15) May 15, 1960 (age 56) Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Lithuanian
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	207 lb (94 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	1982 / Undrafted
Playing career	1981–2006
Position	Shooting guard
Number	10, 12
Coaching career	2002–present
Career history
As player:
1981–1983	CSKA Moscow
1983–1989	Žalgiris Kaunas
1989–1992	Hagen
1992	Žalgiris Kaunas
1992	Peñas Huesca
1993	Townsville Suns
1993–1995	Real Madrid
1995–1996	Žalgiris Kaunas
1996–1997	Élan Chalon
1997–1998	Atletas Kaunas
1998–1999	Lietuvos rytas Vilnius
2001–2002	BC Kyiv
As coach:
2002–2006	BC Gala Baku
2002–2006	Azerbaijan (national team)
2006	PBC Ural Great
2006–2007	Sakalai Vilnius
2007–2008	Śląsk Wrocław
2008	Prokom Trefl Sopot (assistant)
2008–2010	Lietuvos rytas Vilnius
2010–2011	VEF Rīga
2011–2016	Khimki
2016	Pallacanestro Cantù
2017-present	Lietuvos rytas Vilnius
Career highlights and awards
As player: EuroBasket champion (1985) 5× USSR League champion (1982, 1983, 1985–1987) ACB champion (1994) LKL All-Star Game MVP (1995) As coach: 3× Eurocup champion (2009, 2012, 2015) 2× LKL champion (2009, 2010) BBL champion (2009) 2× LKF Cup (2009, 2010) VTB United League champion (2011) Best Eurocup Coach Of All Time (2012) VTB United League Coach of the Year (2014)
Medals Men's Basketball Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Men's basketball FIBA World Cup Spain 1986 USSR EuroBasket 1985 West Germany USSR 1989 Yugoslavia USSR Representing  Lithuania FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship 2005 Russia National Team 2004 Czech Republic National Team Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona National team 1996 Atlanta National team EuroBasket 1995 Greece National team

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Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach, and a retired basketball player, who was a member of the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball teams. He is currently the head coach for BC Lietuvos rytas of Lithuanian LKL. He played as a shooting guard, and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All-Star weekend's Three-Point Contest in 1989. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall.

Kurtinaitis' former teams include Žalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid. Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import in Australia's National Basketball League, playing for the Townsville Suns in 1993.

In 1997, Kurtinaitis was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport. In the years 2002–2006, he took the position of head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team. Also from 2002 to 2006, he was a player for four seasons with BC Gala Baku, working as a player-coach.

He became Sakalai's head coach during the mid-2000s. In December 2007, he became the head coach of the Polish League men's basketball team Śląsk Wrocław. In 2008, he became head coach of Lietuvos Rytas with whom, he won the Eurocup 2008–09 season's title, in the Final-Eight tournament in Turin (Torino), Italy, in a game against Khimky Moscow Region (Final score 80–74).