Mindaugas Girdžiūnas
![]() Mindaugas Girdžiūnas in 2022 | |
No. 8 – Neptūnas Klaipėda | |
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Position | Shooting guard / point guard |
League | Lithuanian Basketball League |
Personal information | |
Born | Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | 9 January 1989
Nationality | Lithuanian |
Listed height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Listed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) |
Career information | |
NBA draft | 2011: undrafted |
Playing career | 2009–present |
Career history | |
2009–2012 | Neptūnas Klaipėda |
2012–2013 | Nevėžis Kėdainiai |
2013–2017 | Neptūnas Klaipėda |
2017–2022 | Lietuvos rytas Vilnius / Rytas Vilnius |
2022-present | Neptūnas Klaipėda |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Mindaugas Girdžiūnas (born 20 January 1989) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player currently playing for Neptūnas Klaipėda.
Professional career
[edit]Girdžiūnas joined Neptūnas in 2009, after showing good performance in Lithuanian third strongest basketball league - Regional Basketball League playing for Klaipėdos Tekoda. In 2011 January, he was loaned to Klaipėdos Nafta-Universitetas which plays in NKL.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Mindaugas_Gird%C5%BEi%C5%ABnas_with_the_Rytas_Vilnius_during_Game_5_of_the_2022_LKL_Finals.jpg/125px-Mindaugas_Gird%C5%BEi%C5%ABnas_with_the_Rytas_Vilnius_during_Game_5_of_the_2022_LKL_Finals.jpg)
International career
[edit]Following the solid season, in 2015 Girdžiūnas was included into the Lithuania men's national basketball team head coach Jonas Kazlauskas extended candidates list.[1] Though, he was not invited into the training camp later on.[2] Otherwise happened in 2016, when he was invited into the national team training camp for the first time.[3] He was released from the team on July 14.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Paviešintas Lietuvos rinktinės kandidatų sąrašas". Delfi.lt. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ "J. Kazlausko sprendimas: paaiškėjo, kurie krepšininkai ruošis Europos čempionatui". Delfi.lt. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "J. Kazlauskas apsisprendė: rinktinės sąrašas – be L. Lekavičiaus, bet su naujais veidais". Krepsinis.lt. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "J. Kazlausko sprendimas: rinktinę palieka M. Girdžiūnas ir D. Gailius". Krepsinis.lt. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- Mindaugas Girdžiūnas. Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga (Lithuanian Basketball League). Accessed 2011-09-06.