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Donatas Motiejūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Shandong Golden Stars of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He was drafted 20th overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves before going on to win the 2012 Polish Basketball League championship with Asseco Prokom Gdynia. After spending four seasons with the Houston Rockets from 2012 to 2016, Motiejūnas joined the Pelicans in January 2017.
About 6 minutes into Lithuania’s first game versus Poland on June 28th, I was thinking to myself that Lithuania was in big trouble. They didn’t start out good at all. A scrappy Polish team was putting up an intense fight, jumping out to an early lead. They were knocking down everything from beyond t...
Lietuvos krepšinio rinktinės vyriausiasis treneris Dainius Adomaitis ketvirtadienį paskelbė 15 žaidėjų, kurie bus kviečiami ruoštis pasaulio čempionato atrankos rungtynėms su Lenkija ir Vengrija, sąrašą. Nors jame ir vėl nėra Kauno „Žalgirio“ narių, rinktinė šią vasarą atrodys visiškai kitaip nei pe...
Lithuania's national basketball team will have to do without one of the country's best players Donatas Motiejūnas in Rio Olympics. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
On the celebration of the coronation of King Mindaugas on Wednesday, well-known Lithuanian basketballer Mindaugas Kuzminskas left for New York to sign a contract with the NBA's New York Knicks. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
FIBA has published an expanded list of Lithuanian basketball player candidates for the Olympics - despite Lithuanian national team coach Jonas Kazlauskas' promise that he would only publish the list after the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) finals.
Donatas Motiejūnas and the Houston Rockets were eliminated from the NBA playoffs by a Stephen Curry-less Golden State Warriors in a crushing defeat last night.
Lithuania’s Jonas Valančiūnas led the scoring for the Toronto Raptors on Saturday but couldn’t prevent a loss to the Indiana Pacers as Donatas Motiejūnas failed to fire for Houston as the Rockets were blown out by Golden State.
Jonas Valančiūnas's extraordinary performance in the NBA playoffs with the Toronto Raptors has made waves in Canada and the NBA that are being felt in Lithuania as well. The rising star is approaching or has met the Lithuanian records set by other famous NBA big men like Arvydas Sabonis and Žydrūnas...
Jonas Valunčiūnas helped the Toronto Raptors pound the Pacers into submission in Toronto on Thursday night for 101-85 win while Donatas Motiejūnas gave the Houston Rockets the grit they needed to overcome NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors by a single point.
A Russian sports website named sports.ru has given five Lithuanian basketball players the questionable honor of playing on that website's modern-day USSR fantasy dream team. The article's author recounted that four Lithuanian basketball players – Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Valdemaras Cho...
120s: Decision on state defence, Changing tastes for real estate, Black teenager's shooting captured on video, Motiejūnas' pass Sabonis-style.
120s: Army never sleeps, Ukrainian MPs react to surrender, Motiejūnas' disappointing performance, Arm wrestling championship, fine weather, no rain, Bridge explosion in Kentucky
Jonas Valančiūnas has guided Lithuania to a 75:62 victory over African powerhouse Angola to cement his nation’s position on top of Group D at the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
The Lithuanian Basketball Federation has officially presented the list of candidates to play for the national basketball team in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. The list contains 17 names.
