BC Rytas Vilnius, formerly known as Lietuvos rytas, is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania.The club was founded in 1997 from another club, Statyba, and has become one of the most successful Lithuanian basketball clubs.Rytas have won two EuroCup titles, five Lithuanian League titles, three Lithuanian Cups and three Baltic Championships. A year later, Rytas won the double in Lithuania and returned to the EuroLeague Top 16 in 2010-11. … In 1979, Statyba surprised many when – led by Jonas Kazlauskas, Rimas Girskis and Aligmantas Pavilionis – it came in third in the Soviet championship. In a thriller, Rytas survived on a game-winning jumper by Parakhouski for a 77-78 victory. The win earned Rytas a ticket to the 2005-06 EuroLeague and in its debut, the team reached the Top 16 of Europe's marquee competition.
Rytas Vilnius reached a new agreement with center Evaldas Kairys to keep working together next season, the club announced on Friday. In August, in a move that shocked fans of both teams, Kavaliauskas left the team and signed with Žalgiris Kaunas.Lietuvos rytas qualified for the EuroCup Top 16 phase with a 3–5 record, in large part due to the efforts of Drew Gordon, David Logan and Artūras Gudaitis. Zalgiris exacted revenge in the Lithuanian League finals, but it was still a special season for Rytas. Lietuvos Rytas News, Rumors, Roster, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Depth Charts, Forums - RealGM It won the 2009 After the season, team leaders Marijonas Petravičius, Mindaugas Lukauskis and Chuck Eidson left and Lietuvos rytas acquired new perspective players to replace them. Lietuvos Rytas VS Monaco livescore, results, h2h stats, standing and match summary on 22/01/2020, United League European Basketball Football Basketball … The preparation for the season began in August.
As announced by the club on Friday, Rytas Vilnius signed point guard Terrell Tu Holloway for the upcoming season. The team was not invited to the qualifying tournament as before and had to return to the second-tier European league EuroCup.
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Secondly, the team played most of its games in the newly reconstructed On 15 October 2014, Rytas started the EuroCup season by a 92–65 victory over Serbian powerhouse Between 20 and 22 February, Rytas participated in the In LKL, Rytas started ambiguously.
Rytas started the series with a 79–60 win in Vilnius.The season ended with an international scandal for the team, however, as club president Gedvydas Vainauskas made a controversial statement about black players on the team who behaved unprofessionally (saying no more than two players should play on the team and that more are like a gang), drawing negative attention to the team from around the world.Shortly after becoming the new owner of the club, Guoga sparked discussions about changing the club's name and invited the public to offer their ideas since the team no longer had connections with the Vainauskas' newspaper Lietuvos rytas.On 13 July, a press conference was held during which it was announced that Kleiza had also become a shareholder of the club buying part of the Guoga's stake. Rytas Vilnius signed guard Mindaugas Girdziunas to a contract that will keep him with the club through the end of the 2020-21 season.Rytas Vilnius finished its 7DAYS EuroCup season in style by downing Galatasaray Doga Sigorta 83-75 in the Lithuanian capital on Tuesday as Dovis Bickauskis, Terrell Holloway and Evaldas Kairys...UNICS Kazan protected its home-court with a hard-fought 82-69 win over Rytas Vilnius on Wednesday night and got the help it needed to clinch a place in the quarterfinals. In the first game in Vilnius, Rytas lost to Neptūnas 74–83. These guys are special and deserve the victory.
In the regular season, both teams won at home, and fought for the second place and home court advantage, which Rytas won at the last game in Vilnius 92–60. They had more success in Europe, though, finishing in second place in the FIBA Champions Cup regional stage (though losing to After not winning any title in the past two seasons Lietuvos rytas decided that change was needed and began recruiting foreign coaches, the first of them being Serbian After winning the Baltic Basketball League title, Lietuvos rytas won their easiest final series, crushing Žalgiris Kaunas 4–0.