Raimundas Čivilis (24 November 1959 – 27 November 2000) was a
Lithuanian basketball player, known for his career in
Žalgiris Kaunas from 1977 to 1988.
Life
Born in
Panevėžys
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in 1959, Čivilis became a member of Žalgiris team in 1977. His early career, however, was not successful, until
Vladas Garastas took the head coach's post in 1979. Garastas immediately took a liking in him and put him in the starting five. He naturally became a leader, and stayed one even after
Arvydas Sabonis came to the team in 1981. In a match in 1986, when Žalgiris was playing against
Petrović's Cibona Zagreb
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, and Sabonis fouled out, Čivilis took over and led his team to defeat Cibona 94:91.
In 1988, he left Žalgiris, played briefly for a
Slovak basketball club, and retired soon afterwards. In 2000, Čivilis died of
tuberculosis
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.
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Raimundas Čivilis
1959 births
2000 deaths
Lithuanian men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Panevėžys
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Place of death missing
BC Lietkabelis players
Tuberculosis deaths in Lithuania
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