Rimas Kurtinaitis

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Lithuanian basketball player and coach

Basketball PlayersBorn 1960 · age 66

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Rimas Kurtinaitis is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Lithuania men's national team and Sabah of the Azerbaijan Basketball League (ABL).

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Kurtinaitis (first from the left), sitting alongside teammate Arvydas Sabonis, and Team Doctor Vasily Avramenko, after winning the 1988 Summer Olympics Basketball Tournament, with the Soviet Union men's national team.

Teams 15

BK VEF Rīga

BC Rytas

BC Sakalai

CB Peñas Huesca

BC Khimki

BC Žalgiris

Arka Gdynia

PBC CSKA Moscow

Śląsk Wrocław

Élan Chalon

Townsville Crocodiles

BC Kyiv

PBC Ural Great Perm

BC Baltai Kaunas

Real Madrid Baloncesto

Awards 5

2007Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania

1996Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

1995Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Medal "For Labour Valour"

Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR

Connected to Rimas 6

Arvydas SabonisAlso in Lietuvos Krepšinis 1920-2004 (2004)

Hakeem OlajuwonAlso in Arvydas Sabonis 11 (2014)

Timothy SnyderAlso won Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania

Andrius KubiliusAlso won Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Wesley ClarkAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Patriarch Alexius IIAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

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Rimas Kurtinaitis is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Lithuania men's national team and Sabah of the Azerbaijan Basketball League (ABL). As a player, he was a member of the senior Soviet Union and Lithuania national teams, and won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. During his playing career, at a height of 1.96 m tall, he played at the shooting guard position. He is the only non-NBA player to ever participate at the NBA All-Star Weekend's Three-Point Contest, doing so in 1989, where he scored 9 points.