By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests who they are today – stars of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.
One of the few players to have won both a EuroLeague and EuroCup title, the latter as finals MVP, Javtokas is the current sports director of Zalgiris Kaunas, where he played the last six years of his career before retiring in the summer of 2017.
That career almost did not happen after he crashed his motorcycle at age 22 and needed more than a year to recover from a crushed thighbone, a broken shoulder and injuries to his knee and kidneys.
“A doctor said right away to me, ‘You’re done playing, it’s not possible’,” Javtokas said. “But there was not one person around me who said I wouldn’t play. Maybe they saw that I didn’t believe it, either.
Source: EuroLeague