Rimas Kurtinaitis
Rimas Kurtinaitis (born
May 15,
1960 in
Kaunas,
Lithuania) is a former
basketball player for the Soviet Union and
Lithuanian national basketball teams, current assistant coach for the latter. He played as a shooting guard and he is also known as the best European three-point shooter in the 1980s. He is 196cm (6 ft 5 in) tall.In 1997 he was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport, in 2003 he took the position as a
head coach of
Azerbaijan National Team.
*World Champion -
1982*World championship Silver medalist -
1986*European champion -
1985*European championship Silver medalist -
1987,
1995*European championship Bronze medalist -
1989*Olympic champion -
1988*Olympic Bronze medalist -
1992*
USSR champion - 1985, 1986, 1987
*Spanish
ACB champion - 1994, 1995
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LKL All-Star game MVP - 1996His 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.
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