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Tauras Jogėla
Tauras Jogėla (born 2 May 1993) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Šiauliai of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Jogėla can play either forward position, although he's more accustomed to playing power forward. Early career He won the Lithuanian Student Basketball League (MKL) Slam Dunk Contest in 2011. Professional career On 21 November 2019, Jogėla signed with Soproni KC of the Hungarian League. Jogėla averaged 14 points and 4.5 rebounds per game for Soproni KC during the 2019–20 season. He re-signed with the team on 26 July 2020. On 19 August 2023, Jogėla signed with CBet Jonava of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). On 18 July 2024, Jogėla signed with San Miguel Beermen of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) as the team's import for the 2024 PBA Governors' Cup., but he was replaced by Jordan Adams before the start of the conference. On 16 August 2024, Jogėla signed with Šiauliai of the Lithuanian Basketball League Lithua ...
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Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga
Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (LKL; ), also known as Betsafe LKL for sponsorship reasons, is the premier men's professional club basketball league in Lithuania. It is composed of 10 teams, and it is a member of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation. The best LKL clubs are also annual participants of the top European-wide basketball competitions, including the top-tier level EuroLeague. On April 22, 1993, the Lietuvos krepšinio asociacija (LKA; ) was founded. It was the first professional sports organisation in Lithuania. Lietuvos krepšinio lyga was built on the foundation of the LKA. Former basketball player Šarūnas Marčiulionis is named as the founder of the league. He was the first president of the LKL and served from 1993 to 2002. Remigijus Milašius is the current president of the league since 2013. The league's headquarters is located in Vilnius. A total of 28 teams have competed in the LKL since its inception. Only two teams have been crowned champions, with Žalgiris ...
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Latvijas Basketbola Līga
The Latvian Basketball League (LBL; ) also known as the '' Pafbet'' LBL for sponsorship reasons, is the top-level national basketball championship in Latvia composed of 6 teams. Since 2018/19, only the playoff matches are played, as the top Latvian clubs play the regular season in the Latvian–Estonian Basketball League. The LBL is governed by the Latvian Basketball Association, the national governing body of basketball in Latvia. Its 6 teams are located in 5 cities; two in Riga, and one in Ventspils, Liepāja, Valmiera, and Ogre. The LBL season usually ran from September to April, with the playoffs in April–May. The league was founded in 1992, and its first season was played in the same year. History Before 1992 After American YMCA volunteers introduced the sport in Riga around 1920, interest in the sport grew, and in 1923 the YMCA organized the first ever basketball tournament in Latvia, with 14 teams registering. In 1924, the newly-founded Latvian Basketball Associat ...
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Lithuania Men's National Basketball Team
The Lithuania men's national basketball team () represents Lithuania in international basketball competitions. They are controlled by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Lithuania. Despite Lithuania's small size, with a population of less than 3 million, the country's devotion to basketball has made them a traditional force of the sport in Europe. The Lithuanian national team won the last EuroBasket tournaments prior to World War II, in EuroBasket 1937, 1937 and EuroBasket 1939, 1939. The 1939 team was led by Frank Lubin, who helped popularize basketball in the country and was called the "grandfather of Lithuanian basketball". Following the country's Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944), annexation by the Soviet Union during the war, Lithuanian players frequently formed the core of the Soviet Union national basketball team, Soviet national team. The most prevalent example was the Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 Olympic ...
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Jordan Adams (basketball, Born 1994)
Jordan LaVell Adams (born July 8, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Dewa United Banten of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. He was the first UCLA freshman to score 20 or more points in his first four games, and was an all-conference first-team selection in the Pac-12 Conference in his sophomore year. After deciding to forgo his remaining college eligibility and enter the 2014 NBA draft, Adams was selected by Memphis Grizzlies in the first round with the 22nd overall pick. He played two seasons with Memphis before being waived after multiple knee surgeries. Early life Adams was born in Atlanta to John Adams, a nutrition manager, and Sabrina Robinson Johnson, a dental hygienist. His parents never married but remained friends. When Adams was in the fourth grade and his life began to revolve around American football and basketball, he moved from his mother's house to his father's. One of Adams' coache ...
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2024 PBA Governors' Cup
The 2024 PBA Governors' Cup, also known as the 2024 Honda PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the first conference of the 2024–25 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 22nd edition of the Governors' Cup started on August 18 and ended on November 8, 2024. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m). Format The following format was observed for the duration of the conference: *The teams were divided into 2 groups, based on the previous season's conference finish on a weighted average, with 40% for the Commissioner's Cup, and 60% for the Philippine Cup. This was identically distributed to the reverse drafting order. **Group A: **#Meralco Bolts (2nd) **#Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots (4th) **#TNT Tropang Giga (6th) **#NorthPort Batang Pier (8th) **# Terrafirma Dyip (10th) **#Converge FiberXers (12th) **Group B: **#San Miguel Beermen (1st) **#Barangay Ginebra San Miguel ...
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Philippine Basketball Association
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines, composed of twelve company-branded Franchising, franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and the second-oldest in the world after the National Basketball Association (NBA).Bartholomew, Rafe. ''Pacific Rims''. New American Library, 2010, p. 13. The league played its first game at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on April 9, 1975, and its regulations are a hybrid of rules from the NBA and FIBA. As of the 2022–23 PBA season, 2022–23 season, the PBA season consists of three tournaments known as "List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences, conferences": the PBA Philippine Cup, Philippine Cup, the PBA Commissioner's Cup, Commissioner's Cup, and the PBA Governors' Cup, Governors' Cup. The Commissioner's and Governors' Cups allow each team to sign a single foreign player known as an "Lists of Philippine Basketball As ...
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San Miguel Beermen
The San Miguel Beermen are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). It is one of three PBA clubs owned by the San Miguel Corporation group of companies along with Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots. It is the most successful franchise in the history of the PBA and the only remaining original franchise in the league. The Beermen have the most titles with 29 and the most all-time victories with more than 1,200 wins. In addition, it has won the Grand Slam in and the Perpetual Jun Bernardino Trophy after winning three straight PBA Philippine Cups from 2015 to 2017. It is also the only team to have won at least one PBA title in each of the six numerical decades of the league's existence and was the first professional basketball team ever to come back from a 0–3 deficit to win a best-of-seven playoff series which they did during the 2015–16 Philippine Cup Finals. Beginnings San Miguel had a basketbal ...
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Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A
The Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A (, commonly abbreviated NB I/A) is Hungarian basketball league system, the highest level Sports league, league of club men's basketball in Hungary. Format The league comprises 14 teams. A NB I/A season is split into a league stage and a playoff/playout stage. At the end of the league stage (14 teams) the top 5 teams play another league stage, another 5 play with each other, and then the top 8 teams qualify for the playoff stage. The playoffs are played in "Playoff format#Best-of-five playoff, Best of five" format. The winning team of the final round are the champions of that season. The two bottom teams play with each other in "Playoff format#Best-of-three playoff, Best of three" format. The losing team gets relegated. Current season Teams of the 2022–23 season Title holders Performance by club Finals Format As we can see from the chart the number of teams in the Hungarian First Division changed a lot and continuously. The league star ...
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Lietuvos Moksleivių Krepšinio Lyga
Lietuvos moksleivių krepšinio lyga (MKL) (''English'': Lithuanian Pupils Basketball League) is the Lithuanian boys' and girls' pupils basketball league. The league is divided into 12 age-based categories, starting from Under-12 (First Challenge) and ending with Under-19 (Olympic Cup). Chocolate bars producer Manija is the general sponsor of the league. Schools ranking TOP 10 boy's schools :Last updated: 2015-08-17. TOP 10 girl's schools :Last updated: 2015-08-17. External links Official MKL websiteOfficial MKL Facebook page


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Forward (basketball)
Basketball is a sport with five players on the court for each team at a time. Each player is assigned to different Position (team sports), positions defined by the strategic role they play. Guard, forward and center are the three main position categories. The standard team features two guards, two forwards, and a center. The guards are typically called the "back court" and the forwards and centers the "front court". Over time, as more specialized roles developed, each of the guards and forwards came to be differentiated. Today, each of the five positions is known by a unique name and number: point guard (PG) or 1, the shooting guard (SG) or 2, the small forward (SF) or 3, the power forward (basketball), power forward (PF) or 4, and the center (basketball), center (C) or 5. Guards The guards were originally tasked with guarding the team's forwards, hence the position's name. Running guard and stationary guard In the early history of the sport, there was a "running guard" or ...
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ...
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