2024-07-04 03:26:53
The Aukštaitija club concluded a one-year contract with the basketball player.
“Karol needs no introduction – he comes from the highest level and everyone knows the best components of his game. We are very happy to bring in a player who has spent many years at the highest level and is an elite sniper.
Karolis successfully passed all the tests we wanted to see and has a huge ambition to prove both to himself and to all basketball fans that he is a good level player, and we want to be that springboard in his career.
The ambitions of the club and the player coincided, so this agreement happened quite quickly”, said the head of the Utena team. coach Vytautas Buz.
The 26-year-old, 195 cm tall native of Vilnius, Karolis Lukošiūnas, represented the Kaunas “Žalgiris” team from 2019 to 2023. With the green and white shirt, the defender has become the champion of Lithuania three times and won the King Mindaugas Cup four times.
In the 2022/2023 “Betsafe-LKL” season, K. Lukošiūnas, who represented “Žalgiris”, scored 5.8 points (three-pointers 38.9%) in an average of 14 minutes spent on the court.
In the 2023/2024 season, the Lithuanian participated in the draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA) G League and heard his name as the tenth player. K. Lukošiūnas was called up by the subsidiary team of the Utah Jazz, the Salt Lake City Stars.
Lukošiūnas played five games in the G League and recorded an average of 3.8 points.
In addition to Karolis Lūkošiūnas, Joe Chealey, Laurynas Beliauskas, Žygymantas Skučas, Šarūnas Beniušis, Ernestas Sederevičius and Titas Didžgalvis also have contracts with the Utena club for the upcoming season. The team will be coached by V. Buz.
2024-07-04 03:26:53