Listed height 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Name Arturas Gudaitis Height 2.08 m Career start 2010 | Nationality Lithuanian Listed weight 254 lb (115 kg) Role Basketball player Weight 115 kg Pro career 2010 | |
League Lithuanian Basketball LeagueEurocup Born June 19, 1993 (age 31) Klaipeda, Lithuania ( 1993-06-19 ) NBA draft 2015 / Round: 2 / Pick: 47th overall Similar People Luka Mitrovic, Saulius Stombergas, Nik Stauskas, Brett Brown | ||
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Artūras Gudaitis (born 19 June 1993) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Lietuvos rytas Vilnius of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he plays at the center position.
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- Early career
- Professional career
- NBA
- International career
- Career statistics
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Early career
Before starting his professional career, Gudaitis played in the RKL with the LCC Klaipėda for one season. The next two seasons he played in NKL, and on his last season with Žalgiris-2 Kaunas he won a bronze medal. Gudaitis was respectively nominated as a most promising young player of the league on the same year.
Professional career
On 6 August 2013, Gudaitis signed a professional contract with Žalgiris Kaunas for two years and was brought into the main Žalgiris roster. Whilst suffering from the knee injury in the first half of the season he had his breakthrough game against Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in the EuroLeague tournament, scoring 14 points with 6 rebounds. Gudaitis vastly improved during the regular season, and was called an x-factor of victorious LKL semi-final series against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius.
During 2014–15 LKL season his powerful dunk over Artūras Jomantas was selected as the Top Play of the Regular Season.
On 2 July 2015, he signed a 2+1 contract with Lietuvos rytas Vilnius.
On 9 November 2016, Gudaitis scored a career-high 17 points and got 11 rebounds in a 101–84 win over Montakit Fuenlabrada in EuroCup Basketball game. One week later, on 16 November 2016, Gudaitis scored 12 points and got a career-high 15 rebounds.
NBA
On 26 February 2015 Gudaitis announced that he was going to participate in the 2015 NBA draft and prior to the NBA draft, it was reported that 11 teams were interested in his services.
On 25 June 2015, Gudaitis was selected in the second round, with the 47th pick by the Philadelphia 76ers.
On 10 July 2015, the Sacramento Kings acquired Gudaitis and Luka Mitrović from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Carl Landry, Jason Thompson, and Nik Stauskas. It was reported that Vlade Divac himself requested to acquire Gudaitis.
On 5 July 2016, it was announced that Gudaitis would represent the Kings during the 2016 NBA Summer League.
International career
Gudaitis represented Lithuania at the U–18 youth tournament in Poland, 2011. His team took 5th place in the tournament, where Gudaitis scored 11.3 points, grabbed 6.2 rebounds and had 1.4 blocks per game. In 2015 Gudaitis was included in the Lithuania men's national basketball team head coach Jonas Kazlauskas extended candidates list and was invited to the training camp. He was released from the team on September 1, just 4 days before the championship start.
Career statistics
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.