Robertas Javtokas
Robertas Javtokas was born in Šiauliai, Kovno Governorate, Lithuania on March 20th, 1980 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 44, Robertas Javtokas 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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Robertas Javtokas (born March 20, 1980) is a Lithuanian professional basketball executive and former player.
He currently works as the sports director of Algiris Kaunas.
He starred in center position at 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in).
Since 2004, he has been a member of the senior men's Lithuanian national team.
He was drafted with the 55th overall pick by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2001 NBA draft.
Personal life
Javtokas attended St. Vincent – St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, the same secondary school where LeBron James went to growing up. During the 1997-1998 school year, Javtokas attended Bishop McGuinness High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for one year of high school. Artras Javtokas, his elder brother, is a basketball player.
He had a serious accident on May 1, 2002 when riding his Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle at a speed of about 200 mph (125 miles per hour) to Vilnius. Javtokas began to pass a van on a side road, but the van driver did not see it and turned left. There was no way for Javtokas to stop and he crashed into the car, but not the bike, which crashed into a car in the opposite lane. Javtokas swam through bushes off the road, breaking his thighbone, breaking his arm, and injuring his knee and kidneys. For the 2003–04 season, he returned to basketball.
Professional career
Javtokas joined Lietuvos rytas in 2000 and quickly became Lithuania's best center. Javtokas, along with Ramnas izbenikaus, Arvydas Macijas, Simas Jasaitis, and Rimantas Kauknas, defeated the 2002 Lithuanian League championship and the North European League championship. Javtokas was out for the entire 2003 season before returning to 2004 after the motorcycle accident. He captured the EuroCup championship in 2005 and was named the EuroCup Finals MVP.
Rytas made a good debut in the EuroLeague in 2006 and beat their main rival algiris 4–0 in the Lithuanian league finals series. The team has also won the Baltic League Championship. After the season, Javtokas was angry that Rytas was unable to give him a bigger pare of money and also that he was returning to the EuroCup rather than the EuroLeague, so he decided to play in another team.
He was with Panathinaikos for the 2006-07 season, winning the Greek Cup championship and the EuroLeague championship, as well as winning the coveted Basketball Triple Crown). Despite playing only limited minutes all season, he continued to play a little bit. He signed a two-year deal with Dynamo Moscow of the Russian Super League A. He increased his free throw percentage from 35.5 percent to 54.5 percent in Dynamo, and he increased in scoring average to 12.2 points per game. He joined the Russian club Khimki Moscow Region in 2009, and he has been on staff since. He signed a two-year deal with Valencia, Spain, on July 15, 2010.
He returned to Lithuania in June 2011 and signed a three-year contract with the Lithuanian LKL's pro club -algiris. In 2015, his deal was renewed. Robertas Javtokas was voted one of the best EuroCup players of all time on June 20, 2012. He came in 4th place out of ten finalists for the fourth time. In 2015, his deal was extended for one year. Algiris' contract was extended in 2016 for the sixth time.
Javtokas announced his retirement from playing professional basketball on June 8, 2017. On June 9, 2017, he played his last game as a professional player.
Javtokas was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 55th overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft. Before Javtokas announced his retirement from playing professional basketball, the San Antonio Spurs held his NBA draft rights for 16 years until 2017. Javtokas is one of eight players chosen in the 2001 NBA Draft that has never played a single game in the league.
National team career
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Javtokas made his debut with the senior men's Lithuanian national team. He had 8.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 0.5 assists per game. He appeared in six games with the Lithuanian men's national basketball team at EuroBasket 2005. He averaged 11.0 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game during the tournament. His field goal percentage was 61.7 percent, and his free-throw percentage was 47.1 percent.
He also competed with Lithuania at the 2010 FIBA World Championships, where he earned a bronze medal.
Post-playing career
Following his release from playing competitive basketball in 2017, Javtokas said he wanted to not deviate from the game of basketball, and he was invited by algiris Kaunas to become the club's sports director. Javtokas left algiris Kaunas in order to vote for the president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation on July 1, 2021.