Zalgiris Kaunas has announced a new 2+1 contract with Mantas Rubstavicius. The 24-year-old Lithuanian guard will spend the first season of the deal on loan with Tofas Bursa. The 198 cm guard has already joined the Turkish club, which competes in both the domestic league and EuroCup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rubstavicius had agreed to join Auburn in the NCAA during the summer, but the deal ultimately did not take effect because of subsequent obstacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A product of the Zalgiris system, Rubstavicius first joined the reserve team in 2019. Last season, he won his first LKL title with the senior team while averaging 7.6 points and an 8.5 performance index rating<\/strong> in domestic competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zalgiris Kaunas signs Mantas Rubstavicius to a new 2+1 deal and loans the Lithuanian guard to Tofas Bursa for the 2026-27 season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":562426,"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":[315,199,271],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-562428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","category-lithuania"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/11\/HWq9hJDWEAAt84c.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562428","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562429,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562428\/revisions\/562429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562428"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=562428"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=562428"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=562428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}