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Šarūnas Marčiulionis

Marčiulionis during his masterclass visit in Armenia (June 2014)
Personal information
Born	(1964-06-13) June 13, 1964 (age 60) Kaunas, Lithuania
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	1987: 6th round, 127th overall pick
Selected by the Golden State Warriors
Playing career	1981–1997
Position	Shooting guard
Number	13, 30, 8
Career history
1981–1989	Statyba
1989–1994	Golden State Warriors
1994–1995	Seattle SuperSonics
1995–1996	Sacramento Kings
1996–1997	Denver Nuggets
Career highlights and awards
4× Lithuanian Sportsman of the Year (1987, 1989–1991) Mr. Europa (1988) FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991) FIBA EuroBasket MVP (1995)
Career NBA statistics
Points	4,631 (12.8 ppg)
Rebounds	819 (2.3 rpg)
Assists	807 (2.2 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Basketball Hall of Fame
FIBA Hall of Fame
Medals Men's Basketball Representing  Soviet Union Summer Olympic Games 1988 Seoul FIBA EuroBasket 1987 Greece 1989 Yugoslavia FIBA U19 World Cup 1983 Spain Under-19 European Championship for Juniors 1982 Bulgaria Under-18 Representing  Lithuania Summer Olympics 1992 Barcelona 1996 Atlanta FIBA EuroBasket 1995 Greece

Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis ([ˈrɐ̂ˑɪ̯mɔndɐs ʃɐˈrûːnɐs mɐrʲtɕʊˈlʲôːnʲɪs] ) (born June 13, 1964) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest international players, he was one of the first Europeans to become a regular in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Marčiulionis was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014 and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.

In the 1988 Summer Olympics, together with teammate Arvydas Sabonis, Marčiulionis led the senior USSR national team to the gold medal. With the senior Lithuanian national team, he won two Summer Olympics bronze medals, in 1992 and 1996. He was an All-Tournament Team member, the top scorer, and the MVP of the EuroBasket 1995, and he was also elected to the All-EuroBasket Team in 1987.

Marčiulionis is also often remembered for and associated with the Euro step move during his seven seasons playing in the NBA, which was popularized by Manu Ginóbili in the mid-2000s.

Early life

Marčiulionis was the second son of Laimutė, a geography teacher, and Juozas, an engineer. Given that Laimutė aggravated a spinal injury while giving birth to his sister Zita, her determination in having a son led to the middle name Šarūnas, invoking a legendary knight from Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius's works. Growing up in Kaunas, Marčiulionis took up tennis while growing up, being an ambidextrous player focused on forehands. Given his unorthodox technique, and an increasingly bulky frame, he eventually gave up on the sport.

At the age of 13, following a hospitalization caused by the use of makeshift explosives, Marčiulionis changed to the sport of basketball. In the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, he and his friends had to build their own outdoor basketball court in a parking lot. When he moved to Vilnius, to study journalism at Vilnius State University of Vincas Kapsukas, and possibly try out for the Soviet junior national team, all Marčiulionis' parents could provide him was, "one bag containing a very small amount of clothes, and another full of apples."

Professional career

Statyba

While Marčiulionis attended college, he rarely played basketball, but he eventually attracted a scout from Statyba, of the USSR Premier League, in 1981. He would play with Statyba, in the USSR League, from 1981 to 1989.

NBA

During a 1985 game against Athletes in Action, in Vilnius, Marčiulionis struck up a friendship with one of the opposing players, Donnie Nelson, despite the language barrier. Nelson's father Don Nelson would later be the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, and what he said about Marčiulionis' skills led the Warriors to draft him in the 6th round of the 1987 NBA draft. Stan Kasten, president and general manager of the Atlanta Hawks, managed to void the pick by showing Marčiulionis was age 23, one year older than the age the draft rules prescribed for European players. As of 2024, Marčiulionis was the last NBA player to have his selection ineligible in an NBA draft due to him being above the draft age limitations at the time of his initial selection. The Hawks then pursued Marčiulionis using then-owner Ted Turner's connections with the Soviet Union, inviting him and other Soviet players to their training camp, and arranging for Hawks–USSR matches in Moscow, in 1988. While Marčiulionis signed a contract with Atlanta, the day after he won the gold medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics, the team wound up not submitting it to the NBA's offices, as the Soviets said they would not permit the player to leave.

Eventually, Nelson's influence helped Marčiulionis with his social projects in Vilnius, and led him to remain with the Warriors, with whom he signed a three-year $3.8 million contract, in 1989. Marčiulionis became the first Soviet player to join the North American league, and played four years with the Warriors, finishing as the runner-up for the Sixth Man of the Year Award in 1992. Marčiulionis became one of the first Europeans to get significant playing time in the NBA, helping to lead the way for the internationalization of the league in the late 1990s. After missing a year-and-a-half with a leg injury, he was traded, along with Byron Houston, to the Seattle SuperSonics in 1994 in exchange for Carlos Rogers, Ricky Pierce, and two 1995 second-round draft picks. In 1995, Marčiulionis and Houston were traded to the Sacramento Kings for Frank Brickowski. He finished his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets, in the 1996–97 season.

National team career

Soviet national team

In 1982 and 1983, Marčiulionis played sparingly with the Soviet juniors. He won a gold medal at the 1982 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, and a silver medal at the 1983 FIBA Under-19 World Cup, in Spain. Marčiulionis was frequently the last man cut from the senior Soviet Union national basketball team training camps, until he finally got his chance with the senior team in 1987, having a breakout performance, while winning a silver medal at the EuroBasket 1987. Marčiulionis would also be one of the standout players, as the Soviets won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Lithuanian national team

Following the restoration of Lithuanian independence, in 1990, Marčiulionis almost single-handedly resurrected the senior Lithuanian national team. He contacted prospective players, encouraged several to join, selected the uniforms, negotiated a shoe deal, and arranged for sponsorships, along with friend Donnie Nelson. Sponsor deals struck by him included Bank of America and the rock band Grateful Dead, who were interested in supporting Lithuania, after reading a story on Marčiulionis and the national team, in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Grateful Dead also helped launch a line of tie-dyed jerseys, that would feature Lithuania's national colors, along with a slam dunking skeleton, created by New York artist Greg Speirs. Speirs became a major sponsor when he donated 100% of his profits from his design to fund the team, and to Lithuanian children's charities, amounting to at least $450,000. The team went on to win a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Marčiulionis was again a bronze medalist with Lithuania, at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1995, he was named the MVP of the 1995 FIBA EuroBasket, after leading Lithuania to a silver medal in the tournament. In 1987, 1989, 1990, and 1991, he was voted the best sportsman in Lithuania.

Marčiulionis' basketball career and journey to represent his native country Lithuania in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics is highlighted in the documentary film "The Other Dream Team". The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and was distributed by Lionsgate in the U.S. and Disney internationally.

Post-playing career

In 1992, Marčiulionis opened the Šarūnas Hotel in Vilnius. In 1993, he founded the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL), and also became its president. In 1999, Marčiulionis founded the North European Basketball League (NEBL), and also became its commissioner. The NEBL would later be absorbed into the Baltic Basketball League. Today, he is one of the most successful businessmen in Lithuania. He was also the President of the Šarūnas Marčiulionis Basketball Academy.

On February 14, 2014, Marčiulionis was announced as a 2014 player inductee, by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame; he formally entered the Hall on August 8. On September 19, 2015, Marčiulionis was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.

On October 2, 2015, it was announced that Šarūnas Hotel was closed. The nearby Šarūnas Marčiulionis Basketball academy meanwhile, was closed after the 2015–16 season.

On May 26, 2019, Marčiulionis was elected to the European Parliament to serve in the Ninth European Parliament. However, on May 28, he announced that he decided to give up his seat in the European Parliament.

Personal life

Even with language barriers, Marčiulionis was a devoted teammate, and active in the communities he played in. In 1987, he helped a Panevėžys man get an artificial heart valve for his son, by appealing to Donnie Nelson, who arranged an operation for the teenager in the United States. In the aftermath of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, Marčiulionis appeared at the site of a commuter train accident, wearing his Warriors warm up outfit, and he helped by pulling out trapped passengers and administering first aid.

After he joined the Warriors, Marčiulionis's wife Inga enrolled at Merritt College, where she walked on to their women's basketball team and was a star player for two seasons. She became one of 147 women in women's college basketball history to score 50 or more points in a college game while at Merritt College, and joined the faculty of Merritt College after graduating. She served as head coach of Merritt's women's basketball team, and is now the head of their kinesiology department.

Marčiulionis and Inga are divorced and have one daughter. Inga lives in the United States and continues her work at Merritt College.

Marčiulionis married Laura Mikelionytė on March 10, 2012.

Šarūnas' son Augustas Marčiulionis made his debut in the Lithuanian Basketball League on September 19, 2020, as a member of his father's first professional team Rytas Vilnius. Augustas played on an amateur contract to preserve his eligibility to play NCAA basketball, and on June 16, 2021, signed a letter of intent to play at Saint Mary's College starting in the 2021–22 season.

NBA career statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

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External links

• Career statistics from NBA.com and Basketball Reference
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis at the Wayback Machine (archived July 23, 2011) at Krepsinis.net (in Lithuanian)
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis at Basketnews.lt (in Lithuanian)
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis at Olympedia (archive)
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis at Olympics.com
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis at Olympic.org (archived)
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis Profile 1 at archive.fiba.com
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis Profile 2 at archive.fiba.com

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Gomelsky Hejková Iba Ivković Kanela Kondrashin Magnano Maher Messina Newell Nikolić Novosel Pešić Primo Rubini Smith Stirling Summitt Tanjević VanDerveer Vasojević Yow Zuoyun Žeravica Contributors Founding Federations: Argentine Czechoslovakian Greek Italian Latvian Portuguese Romanian Swiss Airaldi Rivarola Ashry Atakol Bouffard Busnel Calvo Carneiro Dos Reis Greim Hepp Jones Killian Klieger Kozłowski López Martín Naismith Otto Pitzl Popović Ramsay Samaranch Šaper Saporta Scuri Seguro de Luna Semashko Sèye Moreau Stanković Steitz Stern Ueda Vitale Wahby Yoon Technical officials Arabadjian Bain Belošević Blanchard Dimou Hopenhaym Kassai Kostin Lazarov Pfeuti Rae Reverberi Rigas Righetto Teams 1992 USA Men's "Dream Team" v t e Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year Olympic sports Overall (1956-2013) Algirdas Šocikas 1956 Jonas Pipynė 1957 Birutė Kalėdienė 1958 Adolfas Varanauskas 1959 1963 Antanas Bagdonavičius, Zigmas Jukna 1960 1961 Antanas Vaupšas 1962 Ričardas Tamulis 1964 Modestas Paulauskas 1965 1966 1967 1969 1970 1971 1972 Danas Pozniakas 1968 Vladas Česiūnas 1973 1974 Česlovas Jazerskis 1975 Angelė Rupšienė 1976 Vilhelmina Bardauskienė 1977 1978 Lina Kačiušytė 1979 1980 Robertas Žulpa 1981 Vladas Turla 1982 Ana Ambrazienė 1983 Arvydas Sabonis 1984 1985 1986 1996 Šarūnas Marčiulionis 1987 1989 1990 1991 Gintautas Umaras 1988 Romas Ubartas 1992 Vitalijus Karpačiauskas 1993 Raimundas Mažuolis 1994 Remigijus Lupeikis 1995 Raimondas Šiugždinis 1997 Diana Žiliūtė 1998 Edita Pučinskaitė 1999 Virgilijus Alekna 2000 2004 2005 2006 Rasa Polikevičiūtė 2001 Raimondas Rumšas 2002 Šarūnas Jasikevičius 2003 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 2007 Edvinas Krungolcas 2008 Simona Krupeckaitė 2009 2010 Laura Asadauskaitė 2011 Rūta Meilutytė 2012 2013 Men (since 2014) Jevgenij Shuklin 2014 Ramūnas Navardauskas 2015 Aurimas Didžbalis 2016 Andrius Gudžius 2017 2018 Danas Rapšys 2019 Mindaugas Griškonis 2021 Mykolas Alekna 2022 Women (since 2014) Rūta Meilutytė 2014 2018 2022 Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė 2015 2019 2021 Simona Krupeckaitė 2016 Airinė Palšytė 2017 Men's team (2014-2019) Ritter/Maščinskas 2014 Men's National Basketball Team 2015 Ritter/Griškonis 2016 Adomavičius/Maščinskas/Džiaugys/Nemeravičius 2017 Adomavičius/Maščinskas/Nemeravičius/Ritter 2018 Beliavičius/Užupis/Vingelis/Pukelis 2019 Women's team (2014-2019) Valčiukaitė/Vištartaitė 2014 2015 2016 Valčiukaitė/Adomavičiūtė 2017 2018 Krupeckaitė/Marozaitė 2019 Team (since 2021) Valčiukaitė/Vištartaitė 2021 Maldonis/Olijnikas 2022 Paralympic sports Men (since 2021) Edgaras Matakas 2021 2022 Women (since 2021) Oksana Dobrovolskaja 2021 Raimeda Bučinskytė 2022 Team (since 2021) National Men's Goalball Team 2021 National Wheelchair Basketball Team 2022

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