2024-07-26 18:35:20
The 21-year-old defender decided to continue his basketball career in the USA, in the NCAA championships, where he will defend the honor of the Oregon State University basketball team “Beavers”. The basketball player announced this on the social network Instagram.
Last season, L. Lelevičius scored 3.6 points (63.8% doubles, 23.7% triples, 83.5% penalties) in the Lithuanian Basketball League (“Betsafe-LKL”) in an average of 13 minutes on the court. ), had 1.2 rebounds and averaged 3.3 points.
In the European Cup, the man from Kaunas spent 15 minutes on the field, scored 3.9 points (43.6% doubles, 35.7% triples, 85.4% penalties), grabbed 1.6 rebounds and accumulated 3 ,3 utility points.
L. Lelevičius 2022-2023 became the champion of the National Basketball League (7bet-NKL) with the doubles team of Kaunas “Žalgiris”.
In total, the basketball player spent four years in the youth system of “Žalgiris”. The basketball player competed in the Regional Basketball League for two seasons (2019-2020 and 2020-2021), and played in 7bet-NKL for three seasons (2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023).
L. Lelevičius also managed to make his debut in the main team of “Žalgiris”, where he played 11 matches – 10 in “Betsafe-LKL” and 1 in the Euroleague.
in 2023 L. Lelevičius was the leader of the Lithuanian national team of his age at the European U20 Championship. At that time, the defender recorded 17.6 points (46.7% doubles, 36.4% triples, 94.2% penalties), 3.7 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 14.3 utility points. averages.
2024-07-26 18:35:20