Sabonis in the NBA
Arvydas Sabonis is well named for one of the NBA’s best European centers to ever play basketball. The former Portland Trailblazer was just awesome, no doubt about it. He really muscled his opponents down in the paint. Either he was throwing some elbows and not getting caught, or taking the ball and using his hook shot move, Sabonis could do alot that other centers could not, that is why he was on of the bests. Sabonis is seven foot three from the beautiful country Lithuania. He was signed by the Portland Trailblazers, and retired as a Portland Trailblazer. Arvydas played from 1995 to year 2003. The 8 years were kind of limited to him because he did have some knee problems and due to the fact that he had to wear knee braces every single game and practice. He was a solid player, everybody loved him. Coaches, players, fans, boosters, everybody enjoyed all the time and commitment his put in at Portland. Sabonis had a total amount of 5,629 career points scored while he averaged about 12 points a game which is pretty dang good for the Lithuanian center. He also had a total number of 378 rebounds, including offensive and defensive rebounds. Sabonis played for the Lithuania olympic team back when he was able to. What he loved about playing and what he did to defeat all teams including the USA, what he did was get the ball down low and he was very dangerous. Either Sabonis would throw it down with some authority, or he would just easily dish the ball right back out to the point guards and they would just knock down the 3 point shot all day, giving Arvydas Sabonis the assists. As you can tell a difference in his knees giving out, in Sabonis’s rookie season with the Trailblazers, he averaged 14 points a game, and by year 1998, he was up to 16 points a game but as his knees getting worse, he steadily went back down as he final seasons in the NBA ticked down. He went all the way to 12 a game, which is still decent. I wouldn’t be surprised if Arvydas doesn’t go into some coaching in Lithuania. He had a very successful career. Best wishes to Arvydas Sabonis.
By SportKid
Posted under Sport
This post was written by admin on September 2008
Интересненько, откуда такое чудо-юдо вылезло?
Arvydas Sabonis for the win!! The lithuania basketball is maybe too weak for him. Or I should better say the europe basketball players?
i don’t thing arvydas sabonis is one of the best europe basketball players. i’ve seen some of his games and it doesn’t seem to be so good. but this may be just my opinion.