Mindaugas Girdžiūnas

Mindaugas Girdžiūnas

Mindaugas Girdžiūnas in 2022
No. 8 – Neptūnas Klaipėda
Position	Shooting guard / point guard
League	Lithuanian Basketball League
Personal information
Born	(1989-01-09) 9 January 1989 (age 35) Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Lithuanian
Listed height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Listed weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	2011: undrafted
Playing career	2009–present
Career history
2009–2012	Neptūnas Klaipėda
2012–2013	Nevėžis Kėdainiai
2013–2017	Neptūnas Klaipėda
2017–2022	Lietuvos rytas Vilnius / Rytas Vilnius
2022-present	Neptūnas Klaipėda
Career highlights and awards
Lithuanian League champion (2022) King Mindaugas Cup winner (2019)

Mindaugas Girdžiūnas (born 20 January 1989) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player currently playing for Neptūnas Klaipėda.

Professional career

Girdžiūnas joined Neptūnas in 2009, after showing good performance in Lithuanian third strongest basketball league - Regional Basketball League playing for Klaipėdos Tekoda. In 2011 January, he was loaned to Klaipėdos Nafta-Universitetas which plays in NKL.

Girdžiūnas with the Rytas Vilnius during the 2022 LKL Finals

International career

Following the solid season, in 2015 Girdžiūnas was included into the Lithuania men's national basketball team head coach Jonas Kazlauskas extended candidates list.^[1] Though, he was not invited into the training camp later on.^[2] Otherwise happened in 2016, when he was invited into the national team training camp for the first time.^[3] He was released from the team on July 14.^[4]

References

1. "Paviešintas Lietuvos rinktinės kandidatų sąrašas". Delfi.lt. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
2. "J. Kazlausko sprendimas: paaiškėjo, kurie krepšininkai ruošis Europos čempionatui". Delfi.lt. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
3. "J. Kazlauskas apsisprendė: rinktinės sąrašas – be L. Lekavičiaus, bet su naujais veidais". Krepsinis.lt. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
4. "J. Kazlausko sprendimas: rinktinę palieka M. Girdžiūnas ir D. Gailius". Krepsinis.lt. Retrieved 14 July 2016.

• Mindaugas Girdžiūnas. Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga (Lithuanian Basketball League). Accessed 2011-09-06.