{"id":284831,"date":"2022-07-15T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=284831"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:14:41","slug":"lithuania-announces-16-man-roster-for-eurobasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lithuania-announces-16-man-roster-for-eurobasket\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania announces 16-man roster for Eurobasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazys Maksvytis, head coach of Lithuania, has selected 16 players for the training camp leading up to Eurobasket and 2 qualifying games for the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Donatas Motiejunas is absent, but Maksvytis said that he has assured his presence in case of injuries in the frontcourt.<\/p>\n<p>Given several defections in the power forward position, the coach will often use together the two NBA centers, Jonas Valanciunas and Domantas Sabonis,.<\/p>\n<p>Training is scheduled to start on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>The roster:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<table id=\"tablepress-257\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-257\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n<th class=\"column-1\">Player<\/th>\n<th class=\"column-2\">Club<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Arnas Butkevi\u010dius<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Kaunas &#8220;Zalgiris&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Domantas Sabonis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Sacramento Kings (NBA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Eigirdas \u017dukauskas<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Bursa Tofa\u015f (Turkey)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Gediminas Orelik<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">&#8220;Lietkabelis&#8221; of Panev\u0117\u017eys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Gytis Masiulis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Vilnius &#8220;Rytas&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Ignas Brazdeikis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Orlando Magic (NBA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">New Orleans Pelicans (NBA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Kristupas \u017demaitis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Vilnius Wolves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Laurynas Birutis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Kaunas &#8220;Zalgiris&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Lukas Lekavicius<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Kaunas &#8220;Zalgiris&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Marius Grigonis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Panathinaikos Athens (Greece)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Martyn Echodas<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Vilnius &#8220;Rytas&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Mindaugas Kuzminskas<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Rock Giedraitis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">Baskonia of Vitoria (Spain)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16 even\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Rokas Jokubaitis<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">FC Barcelona (Spain)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17 odd\">\n<td class=\"column-1\">Thomas Dimsa<\/td>\n<td class=\"column-2\">NutriBullet of Treviso (Italy)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is The Squad!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LTUbasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LTUbasketball<\/a> men&#39;s NT coaching staff named 16 players who will report to the training camp and prepare for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EuroBasket<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mesuzlietuva?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mesuzlietuva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bkZwOQ1RSY\">pic.twitter.com\/bkZwOQ1RSY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LTU Basketball (@ltu_basketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ltu_basketball\/status\/1547925536122421258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n<section class=\"sharing-box\">\n<div class=\"share-button-wrapper\">\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training is scheduled to start on July 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":284830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-284831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/FXtWEQEUEAEb77N.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284831"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=284831"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=284831"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=284831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}