Rimas Kurtinaitis
Rimas Kurtinaitis was born in Kaunas, Kaunas County on May 15th, 1960 and is the Basketball Coach. At the age of 63, Rimas Kurtinaitis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach, and a retired professional basketball player, who was a member of the senior Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball teams during his playing career.
He won a gold medal at 1988 Olympics in South Korea.
He is currently the head coach for Khimki.
At a height of 1.96 m (6'5") tall, during his playing career, 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.
Club playing career
Including talgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid, some of Kurtinaitis' former clubs as a player. He was the first European player to participate in the Three-Point Challenge at the NBA All-Star Weekend, without ever having played in the NBA since 1989. Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import in Australia's National Basketball League (NBL), while playing for the Townsville Suns in 1993.
Coaching career
Kurtinaitis was appointed to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport in 1997. He served as the head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team from 2002 to 2006. He was with Gala Baku for four seasons, from 2002 to 2006, and served as a player-coach.
In the mid-2000s, he was Sakalai's head coach. He took over as head coach of Poland's men's basketball team, lsk Wrocaw, in December 2007. He became the head coach of Lietuvos Rytas in 2008, and with whom he competed in the EuroCup 2008–09 season, he took the title. In a match against Khimki Moscow Region, the winner of the championship at the Final-Eight tournament in Turin (Torino), Italy, was defeated 80–74).
Kurtinaitis won the EuroCup for the second time in 2012, this time with Khimki. He is the only coach to win the EuroCup three times as of 2015. Kurtinaitis was named the best EuroCup coach of all time on June 21, 2012. On March 15, 2016, Khimki parted ways with Kurtinaitis.
Kurtinaitis took over as the head coach of Pallacanestro Cantù's Italian LBA on August 2, 2016. However, he was suspended from the team on November 30.
Following Tomas Pasas' departure from the club's head coaching position, Kurtinaitis decided to return to Lietuvos rytas on February 10, 2017. Rytas' tenure was not as fruitful – Rytas reached third place in the LKL in the 2016–2017 season, a disappointment for the team. The team did much better in the 2017–2018 season, winning the Eurocup Top16 competition, as well as the KMT and LKL finals, but lost each to algiris Kaunas. Kurtinaitis would be replaced by Dainius Adomaitis in the coming season, causing a lot of controversies, and Kurtinaitis left the team in June.
Kurtinaitis returned to Khimki on January 21, 2019, a surprising decision. He was fired from this position two years after, on January 15, 2021, owing to poor results.