By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Olimpia Milano officially announced the addition of Lithuanian forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas.
Kuzminskas until recently played for the Knicks where averaged 6.3 points over 14.9 minutes in 68 games during his rookie season in 2016-17. He was released after appearing in just one game this season.
The Lithuanian returns to EuroLeague, where in the past was a member of Zalgiris Kaunas and Unicaja Malaga. Kuzminskas started to play with Sakalai Vilnius and made his debut with the senior team in 2006. He stayed there until 2010 (in 2009/10 he played the Eurocup averaging 14.0 points per game). In 2010 he moved to Zalgiris Kaunas and made his EuroLeague debut. In 2012/13, his last season in Kaunas, he averaged 7.1 points per game. In Kaunas, he won twice the Baltic League, he won three times the Lithuanian championship, twice the Lithuanian Cup and once the Supercup. During his last Kaunas season, he was coached by the Spanish, Joan Plaza, who brought him in Malaga for the following season.
With the Lithuanian National Team he won twice the European silver medal in 2013 and 2015, he played the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics (10.8 points per game, 4.5 rebounds) and the last European Championships (15.3 points per game, 4.3 rebounds). His older brother Saulius played for California-Berkeley and embarked eventually in a long European career that finished in 2015 when he was 33. His mother, Zita, was also a professional player and his father a tennis table pro player.