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Šarūnas Jasikevičius (; born 5 March 1976) is a Lithuanian professional
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coach and former player who is the head coach for Fenerbahçe Beko of the Turkish
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and the
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. During his playing career, standing at a height of tall, he played at the
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position. Often considered one of the best Lithuanian and European
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s ever, Jasikevičius was a two-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection, the EuroLeague Final Four MVP in
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and a four-time triple crown winner. He was named the 2005
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. Moreover, he was the first player in
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history to win the competition with three clubs. A former representative of the senior Lithuanian men's national team, he won the gold medal at 2003 EuroBasket, earning an All-EuroBasket Team selection and MVP honors in the process. He also won the bronze medal at the
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, and the bronze medal at 2007 EuroBasket. In 2015, Jasikevičius was named a EuroLeague Basketball Legend as a reward for his playing career and was honored with a ceremony. He has won both
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and Spanish Cup with
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as both a coach and player, as well as both
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and
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with Fenerbahçe in same capacities. He also won the Euroleague title as Fenerbahçe coach in 2025. Additionally, he achieved victory in the Lithuanian League with Zalgiris, also as both coach and player.


Early years

Jasikevičius was born into a family of athletes. His mother Rita, a famous Lithuanian
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player, won a silver medal with the Soviet Union women's national handball team during the
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. Following the success in the world championship, Rita was preparing for the
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in
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. According to Rita: "Everything was calculated, planned: Olympic Games, then - the increase of family, one year break and then back to sports again. But everything happened differently" and she had to choose between her son and the Olympic Games. She decided to give birth to a child and give up the Olympic dream. Later on, the Soviet squad went on to win the Olympic gold medals in the Montreal Olympics and the national team's head coach shut the door for Rita Jasikevičienė to return into the national team in the future. However, Šarūnas's mother never regretted her decision. Šarūnas remembers that his mother constantly said: "My son will give me back the Olympics". In his childhood Šarūnas was a very agile child. His mother remembers that soon after learning to walk, Šarūnas immediately began to run leaning at 45 degrees. Rita: "He was running and running everywhere and I had to constantly chase him". The biggest penalty for Šarūnas was to sit. His younger brother
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was slightly different though. He was slower, but both brothers were unable to live without a ball as kids. Jasikevičius's father Linas always was a sports lover and his son followed his lead to cheer for practically anything. Together they cheered for the USSR national teams or any athlete who had USSR written across his or her chest. Not surprisingly, his dad took him to his first basketball workout when he was 6 years old. His first coach was Feliksas Mitkevičius in Kaunas basketball school, who was strict and never chased Šarūnas when he tried to run away from workouts. According to Mitkevičius, when Šarūnas was 12 years old, he was so sick of basketball that he wished to drop it. He visited his parents, outlined the situation and stated that it would be a huge loss to Lithuania. Following it, his dad had some strong words for Šarūnas and forbade him to drop basketball, which he wished to replace with
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. In Kaunas basketball school he met with future
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star
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with whom he was meeting practically every day, at school, in the gym or elsewhere for the next eleven years. Tomas Masiulis was another notable player on his team. Jasikevičius remembers that at first he was seen as the guy who was "talented but lazy" as he was not a committed athlete; all he did was joke around and try to work as little as possible. Consequently, on one occasions, his dad stopped him from going on a trip to
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with the team, a trip of the sort that only happens once a year, as his marks were disastrous and it was a punishment: "No school? So no basketball". However, his parents were happy to see him pouring his
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into basketball, and this made them urge him on towards the sport, as it also helped him avoid bad company. They played in the gym, and also in the street using scrap metal instead of real baskets, and their favorite pastime was called ''minus'', a kind of forerunner of the game that can be seen today during the
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called "horse". It was far from ideal, but his parents preferred to see him play with the scrap metal hoops in front of their home than down at the pitch, where it would have taken him less than five minutes to pick a fight with the wrong person. His childhood dream was to become a Žalgiris player, a team of which he was such a fan that he knew everything about every player, even the players' shoe sizes. Following the Žalgiris' victory in 1986 Intercontinental Cup, he begged his father to take him to the airport to welcome home the players, where hundreds of people were waiting in the freezing cold. His father knew some of the players, and managed to get signed posters and photos that he used to decorate all the walls of his room. Šarūnas started going to school at Jonas Jablonskis Middle School in 1982 and attended it until 1987. He had to take the bus to go to school even though the thermometer outside read minus twenty and he knew that the most important thing for his parents was that he spent as little time as possible with the bad kids on Partizanai Street. From 1987 to 1993, he studied at Kaunas 4th Middle School. On his first class trip, he went to
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, which he visited before the tournament. Jasikevičius's greatest youth memory in the city was the opening of the first
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in Russia. He remembers that his classmates were listening with their mouths gaped open when he was telling them about the
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, bread rolls with minced beef and fizzy drinks. One of his childhood passions was history, especially about the Native Americans, as well as books about basketball as he was capable of reading a book of more than four hundred pages on basketball in two days. He was also curious about politics, especially when
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began, because of which he was able to travel to
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with his father and brother, and was amazed by the visit to the
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. His childhood favorite Lithuanian player was
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, whom he admired more than any other Lithuanian superstars, like
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and Valdemaras Chomičius, because of Sabonis' elite passing. However, his idol was
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, and he wished to be as good as him, watching his matches again and again, dozens of times, for hours and hours, and later started imitating him in workouts. After one of his trips, his dad came back with a
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, using which he was able to record an
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with
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,
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,
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,
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, and David Robinson, and was later to watch it for a couple of years, more than a hundred times. Jasikevičius also started to record games of Žalgiris and Petrović every time he was able to. Thanks to the video recorder, he discovered the existence of the no-look pass of Magic Johnson. For him, he was the NBA, not Michael Jordan. His unselfishness, imagination, the way he dribbled, and how he passed between his opponent's legs bewitched Jasikevičius. Consequently, his favorite element of basketball quickly became assisting his teammates, which he tried to do like Petrović or Johnson. Later he continued his studies in the
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. In 1993–94 he attended Solanco High School in
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. That year his team won 25 of 27 games and was one of the contenders for the State Championship final, however they lost their first playoff game and finished the season early. However, he was noticed by
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, who was working as
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assistant coach and who invited Jasikevičius to join them.


College career

Jasikevičius played
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at the
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, with the
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. He played as a
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, although he remade himself into a
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in his pro career. He did not see much playing time in his first two years in college, with seniors Duane Simpkins, Johnny Rhodes, and Exree Hipp ahead of him at the wing positions. As a junior, he became a better passer and improved his defense. He averaged a shade under 13 points and 4 assists in his junior and senior years.


Professional career


Early career

Jasikevičius made his pro debut in the 1998–99 season, with the Lithuanian club
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, of
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. With Rytas, he averaged 18.0 points and 5.4 assists per game. In the following 1999–2000 season, Jasikevičius joined the Slovenian club Union Olimpija. With Union Olimpija, he won the Slovenian Cup. With Union Olimpija, he averaged 9.3 points and 3.4 assists per game.


Barcelona Bàsquet

Jasikevičius played the next three seasons with
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, and won the
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with them in 2003. He started for the championship team, and averaged 13.4 points and 3.2 assists per game. He also led the team to two Spanish League titles, and two Spanish King's Cups.


Maccabi Tel Aviv

Jasikevičius joined
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in 2003, and helped them win two
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titles, two Israeli League crowns, and two Israeli Cups. He was named the 2005
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.


NBA

Jasikevičius signed with the
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in July 2005. The deal was worth $12 million over three years. He played in the
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with the Pacers in 112 regular season games (16 starts), over one and a half seasons, averaging 7.3 points and 3.0 assists per game. On 17 January 2007, Jasikevičius was traded to the
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, along with
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, Al Harrington, and Josh Powell, in exchange for Troy Murphy,
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, Ike Diogu, and Keith McLeod. He did not become a part of the rotation in Golden State. He averaged 4.3 points and 2.3 assists per game, in 26 games (2 starts) played, in only 11.9 minutes per game. Jasikevičius was bought out by the Warriors on 20 September 2007.


Panathinaikos Athens

On 25 September 2007, Jasikevičius signed with Panathinaikos. The deal reportedly was worth
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7 million euros
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over two years (7.7 million including his buyout). With Panathinaikos, he won the
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again in 2009. Jasikevičius became the only player in basketball history to win the EuroLeague with three different teams. He also won three Greek League titles and three Greek Cups with Panathinaikos. In 2009, he signed a contract extension worth
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3.5 million euros
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with Panathinaikos. He underwent a knee surgery that same year, and after 5 months of rehabilitation, he returned to the court with limited playing time.


Return to Rytas Vilnius

In November 2010, Jasikevičius signed a one-year contract with
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of the
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.


Fenerbahçe Istanbul

In January 2011, Fenerbahçe, bought-out Jasikevičius' contract with Lietuvos Rytas, and he signed a one-year contract with them.


Return to Panathinaikos Athens

In September 2011, Jasikevičius signed a new contract with Panathinaikos. At age 36, he was named the Greek Cup Final MVP, as he helped Panathinaikos to victory against
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, in a game that finished with a score of 71–70.


Return to Barcelona Bàsquet

Despite rumors that Jasikevičius would join Žalgiris, in July 2012, Jasikevičius signed with his former team,
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. During the fifth Spanish
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finals game against
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, Jasikevičius scored 23 points, and dished out 2 assists, in 19 minutes of game action. However, it wasn't enough, as Real won the game 79 to 71. On 1 July 2013, it was announced that Barcelona had parted ways with Jasikevičius.


Žalgiris

In September 2013, Jasikevičius returned home to Kaunas, signing with Žalgiris. On 30 September 2013, he debuted with Žalgiris, during a game against Unics Kazan, scoring 6 points and dishing out 4 assists. He retired after the season, and joined the Žalgiris coaching staff.


National team career


Lithuanian junior national team

Jasikevičius was a member of the junior national teams of Lithuania. With Lithuania's junior national teams, he won the gold medal at the
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, and the gold medal at the
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.


Lithuanian senior national team

Jasikevičius started his senior
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career in 1997, when he played for
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's senior national team at the
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. Jasikevičius was also a member of the senior Lithuanian national team that won the bronze medal at the
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. He averaged 14.0 points and 5.1 assists, and scored a tournament-high 27 points, in a semifinals loss to the
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. Jasikevičius also led Lithuania to the
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gold medal. He was named the tournament's MVP, after averaging 14.0 points and 8.2 assists per game. Jasikevičius also helped Lithuania win the bronze medal at the
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. He averaged 10.4 points and 5.6 assists per game, and scored a tournament-high 18 points against
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, on 3 September 2007. As of 2012, he was the only Lithuanian basketball player to participate in the
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four times in a row. He retired from the Lithuanian national team following the
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. Over his entire career as a senior Lithuania national basketball team member, he averaged 10 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 4.9 assists per game. He was named to the FIBA EuroBasket 2000–2020 Dream Team in 2020.


Coaching career


Žalgiris (2014–2020)

On 29 July 2014, Jasikevičius announced his retirement from playing basketball, and was appointed to an assistant coach position with Žalgiris. After the firing of head coach Gintaras Krapikas during the 2015–16 season, Jasikevičius became the team's interim head coach. On 13 January 2016, it was announced that he was appointed their new head coach. On 22 January 2016, he got his first
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victory as a head coach, when Žalgiris shockingly crushed the previous season's runners-up,
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, by a score of 75–55, at
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. On 26 October 2016, just before the first game versus his former long-time head coach
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, Željko said: "I knew that he will be a good coach and in the future - one of the best in Europe". On 13 June 2017, he was named best coach of the 2016–17 LKL season. After the season,
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and U.S. national team head coach
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invited him to join his coaching staff during the 2017 NBA Summer League. However, Jasikevičius declined, due to previous summer commitments. Jasikevičius also took third place in voting for the 2017 Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year award. During the
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season, Jasikevičius and his Žalgiris beat expectations by ending in sixth place in the regular season. On 26 April 2018, Žalgiris qualified for the
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by beating
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in game 4 to clinch a 3–1 series win. It was achieved by having a second lowest budget in the whole league. During the semi-final, Žalgiris played Fenerbahçe, unfortunately losing 76–67. Two days later they faced
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in the bronze medal game, winning that game 77–79 and finishing third for the season. On 20 June 2018, he was named best coach of the
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after coaching Žalgiris to yet another Lithuanian League title. On 27 June, Jasikevičius signed one-season contract with Žalgiris. He was named as a LKL Coach of the Year for the third straight time in 2019. According to Euroleague statistics, Jasikevičius team's defensive rating was 97,0 during the 2019/20 season. Jasikevičius team's offensive rating was 100,7. The tight offensive system by Jasikevičius led to only 15,6 turnovers per game in his last season. Under Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Žalgiris was the third slowest team with 80 possessions per game. This can be explained by mentioning the depth of Jasikevičius playbook, which had more than 40 different plays prepared.


Barcelona (2020–2023)

On 2 July 2020, he signed a two-year contract with
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. During his first season as a head coach of FC Barcelona, the club won the
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Regular Season. On 26 June 2023, in a surprising move, Jasikevičius parted ways with the Catalan powerhouse after three seasons, despite having won the 2023
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championship a few days before. He won two Spanish League (
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,
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), two Spanish Cup (
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,
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) and two Catalan League (2022, 2023) with the team, and joined three times to
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(
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,
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,
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).


Fenerbahçe (2023–present)

On 14 December 2023, Jasikevičius was announced as Fenerbahçe head coach on a three-year deal. He made 15 won and 7 lost in his first season with the team in
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, finished sixth place in 2023–24 EuroLeague regular season, beat
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in
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, helped the team after 4 seasons to join
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. In his first
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season as a coach with the team, he won the championship against
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in 2023–24 season. In his second season with the team, he won 23 games in 34 and finished second place in 2024–25 EuroLeague regular season then won
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award. In
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, they sweep Paris Basketball and join 2025 EuroLeague Final Four. On May 25, 2025, Jasikevičius managed Fenerbahçe to their second EuroLeague championship in
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, defeat the defending champions Panathinaikos in the
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, and
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in the
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.


Career statistics


NBA


Regular season

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, 75 , , 15 , , 20.8 , , .396 , , .364 , , .910 , , 2.0 , , 3.0 , , .5 , , .1 , , 7.3 , - , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2", , style="text-align:left;",
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, 37 , , 1 , , 17.9 , , .412 , , .372 , , .922 , , 1.3 , , 3.0 , , .4 , , .0 , , 7.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", Golden State , 26 , , 2 , , 11.9 , , .366 , , .273 , , .871 , , .8 , , 2.3 , , .5 , , .0 , , 4.3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 138 , , 18 , , 18.3 , , .397 , , .355 , , .908 , , 1.6 , , 2.9 , , .5 , , .0 , , 6.8


Playoffs

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, 6 , , 0 , , 11.0 , , .368 , , .222 , , .500 , , 1.0 , , 1.0 , , .0 , , .2 , , 2.8 , - , style="text-align:left;",
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, style="text-align:left;", Golden State , 4 , , 0 , , 1.5 , , .000 , , , , .500 , , .0 , , .5 , , .0 , , .0 , , .3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 10 , , 0 , , 7.2 , , .350 , , .222 , , .500 , , .6 , , .8 , , .0 , , .1 , , 1.8


EuroLeague

, - , style="text-align:left;", 1999–00 , style="text-align:left;", Olimpija , 22 , , 22 , , 33.2 , , .490 , , .491 , , .759 , , 2.9 , , 4.9 , , 1.5 , , .0 , , 13.6 , , , - , style="text-align:left;", 2000–01 , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3",
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, 9 , , 8 , , 28.2 , , .398 , , .327 , , .900 , , 2.3 , , 5.6 , , 1.0 , , .1 , , 14.0 , , 14.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2001–02 , 18 , , 16 , , 23.5 , , .504 , , .449 , , .872 , , 2.1 , , 3.4 , , .9 , , .1 , , 11.6 , , 10.2 , - , style="text-align:left; background:#AFE6BA;", 2002–03† , 21 , , 15 , , 26.4 , , .423 , , .378 , , style="background:#CFECEC;", .959* , , 1.8 , , 3.2 , , .7 , , .0 , , 13.4 , , 10.8 , - , style="text-align:left; background:#AFE6BA;", 2003–04† , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2", Maccabi , 21 , , 20 , , 29.7 , , .477 , , .448 , , .925 , , 1.6 , , 4.8 , , .7 , , .0 , , 16.0 , , 16.3 , - , style="text-align:left; background:#AFE6BA;", 2004–05† , 24 , , 23 , , 31.7 , , .431 , , .399 , , .941 , , 2.7 , , 5.3 , , .9 , , .1 , , 15.7 , , 16.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2007–08 , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3", Panathinaikos , 20 , , 5 , , 23.5 , , .485 , , .408 , , style="background:#CFECEC;", .938* , , 1.6 , , 2.9 , , .7 , , .0 , , 13.2 , , 12.9 , - , style="text-align:left; background:#AFE6BA;", 2008–09† , 22 , , 4 , , 20.1 , , .450 , , .389 , , .886 , , 1.5 , , 3.0 , , .6 , , .1 , , 9.6 , , 8.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2009–10 , 7 , , 0 , , 15.8 , , .400 , , .000 , , .700 , , 1.1 , , 2.1 , , .3 , , .0 , , 4.4 , , 2.6 , - , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2",
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, 6 , , 0 , , 19.4 , , .437 , , .375 , , .909 , , 1.3 , , 4.3 , , .2 , , .0 , , 7.3 , , 7.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", Fenerbahçe , 6 , , 1 , , 15.4 , , .407 , , .375 , , .800 , , 1.0 , , 1.5 , , .2 , , .0 , , 4.8 , , 1.5 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2011–12 , style="text-align:left;", Panathinaikos , 21 , , 1 , , 15.4 , , .517 , , .385 , , .875 , , 1.3 , , 2.5 , , .6 , , .0 , , 7.2 , , 6.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2012–13 , style="text-align:left;",
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, style="background:#CFECEC;", 31* , , 3 , , 14.6 , , .450 , , .340 , , .933 , , .8 , , 2.0 , , .3 , , .1 , , 4.9 , , 4.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2013–14 , style="text-align:left;", Žalgiris , 20 , , 1 , , 16.8 , , .409 , , .404 , , 1.000 , , 1.1 , , 3.1 , , .4 , , .1 , , 6.7 , , 5.3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 226 , , 97 , , 22.0 , , .453 , , .394 , , .927 , , 1.6 , , 3.4 , , .6 , , .0 , , 10.4 , , 9.6


Coaching record


EuroLeague

, - , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="5", Žalgiris , style="text-align:left;", 2015–16 , 12 , , 2 , , 10 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Eliminated in Top 16 stage , - , style="text-align:left;", 2016–17 , 30 , , 14 , , 16 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Eliminated in regular season , - ! style="background:#cc9966;" , style="text-align:left;", 2017–18 , 36 , , 22 , , 14 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won in 3rd place game , - , style="text-align:left;", 2018–19 , 34 , , 16 , , 18 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Eliminated in quarterfinals , - , style="text-align:left;", 2019–20 , 28 , , 12 , , 16 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Season stopped due to the
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, - ! style="background:Silver;" , style="text-align:left;", 2020–21 , 40 , , 28 , , 12 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Lost in the final game , - ! style="background:#cc9966;" , style="text-align:left;", 2021–22 , 39 , , 28 , , 11 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won in 3rd place game , - , style="text-align:left;", 2022–23 , 39 , , 26 , , 13 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Lost in 3rd place game , - , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2", Fenerbahçe , style="text-align:left;", 2023–24 , 27 , , 18 , , 9 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Lost in 3rd place game , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2024–25 , 39 , , 28 , , 11 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won EuroLeague Championship , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , , 324 , , 194 , , 130 , , , ,  


Domestic leagues

, - , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="6", Žalgiris , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2015–16 , 28 , , 24 , , 4 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2016 Lithuanian League Finals , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2016–17 , 47 , , 42 , , 5 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2017 Lithuanian League Finals , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2017–18 , 46 , , 41 , , 5 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2018 Lithuanian League Finals , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2018–19 , 44 , , 40 , , 4 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2019 Lithuanian League Finals , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2019–20 , 24 , , 22 , , 2 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Season stopped due to the
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, - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2020–21 , 44 , , 38 , , 6 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2021 Spanish League Finals , - ! style="background:Silver;" , style="text-align:left;", 2021–22 , 44 , , 33 , , 11 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Lost 2022 Spanish League Finals , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2022–23 , 43 , , 37 , , 6 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2023 Spanish League Finals , - , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3", Fenerbahçe , - ! style="background:#FDE910;" , style="text-align:left;", 2023–24 , 28 , , 25 , , 3 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Won 2024 Turkish League Finals , - , style="text-align:left;", 2024–25 , 36 , , 32 , , 4 , , , , style="text-align:center;", Still plays in 2025 Turkish League play-offs , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , , 384 , , 334 , , 50 , , , ,  


Personal life

In 2006, Jasikevičius became the first European player to have his own nominal basketball shoes manufactured by
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. In 2006, Jasikevičius married Israeli model Linor Abargil, the winner of the Miss World 1998 beauty pageant (as
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). They divorced in 2008. In 2009, he met Anna Douka, in an
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bar. Currently, the pair have two children: a girl named Aila, who was born in 2010, and a boy named Lukas, who was born in 2012. Lukas plays basketball in Fenerbahçe U14. Šarunas' younger brother, Vytenis Jasikevičius, is also a professional basketball player. In 2015, his biographical book ''Laimėti neužtenka'' (English: To win is not enough) was published in Italian, Greek and Lithuanian languages. An English version was also soon released. Later on, Spanish and Israeli publishing houses also showed interest. On 21 July 2017, Jasikevičius married the mother of his two children, Anna Douka, after 8 years of relationship. The ceremony was held in
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. Many famous basketball personalities attended the event, including
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, Dimitris Itoudis, Mike Batiste, Paulius Jankūnas,
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, and others.


Honors and awards


Club career

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(1998–99) * Union Olimpija (1999–2000) ** Slovenian Cup: (2000) *
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(2000–03) ** EuroLeague Championship: (2003) **2× Spanish Championship: (2001, 2003) **2× Spanish Cup: (2001, 2003) *** European Triple Crown: (2003) *
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(2003–05) **2× EuroLeague Championship: (2004, 2005) **2× Israeli Championship: (2004, 2005) **2× Israeli Cup: (2004, 2005) ***2× European Triple Crown: (2004, 2005) *
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(2005–07) **
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: ( 2005–06) *
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(2007) **
NBA Playoffs The NBA playoffs is the annual Playoffs, postseason Tournament#Knockout tournaments, tournament of the National Basketball Association (NBA) held to determine the league champion. Since 1949, the four-round, best-of-seven tournament is held afte ...
: ( 2006–07) * Panathinaikos (2007–10) ** EuroLeague Championship: (2009) **3×
Greek Championship The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repl ...
: (2008, 2009, 2010) **2×
Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...
: (2008, 2009) *** European Triple Crown: (2009) *
Lietuvos Rytas ''Lietuvos rytas'' (lit. 'Morning of Lithuania') is a Lithuanian daily newspaper. History and profile "Lietuvos rytas" was established in 1990 on a basis of newspaper "Komjaunimo tiesa". The paper is printed in Vilnius Vilnius ( , ) is ...
(2010) * Fenerbahçe (2011) ** Turkish Championship: (2011) **
Turkish Cup The Turkish Cup () is a football cup competition in Turkish football, run by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. During a brief sponsorship period with Fortis, its sponsored name was ''Fortis Türkiye Kupası''. Now Ziraat Bankası is ...
: (2011) * Panathinaikos (2011–12) **
Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...
: (2012) *
FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
(2012–2013) ** Spanish Cup: (2013) * Žalgiris (2013–14) ** Lithuanian Championship: (2014)


Individual

* Spanish League Finals MVP: (2003) *
FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team The FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team, or FIBA EuroBasket All-Star Five, is the FIBA Europe award that is bestowed upon the five best players of each FIBA EuroBasket tournament. Pau Gasol holds the record for the most selections in the All ...
: (
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
) *
FIBA EuroBasket MVP The FIBA EuroBasket MVP is the FIBA Europe honor that is bestowed upon the Most Valuable Player of each FIBA EuroBasket tournament. Pau Gasol and Krešimir Ćosić share the record for most EuroBasket MVP awards, with two each. Modestas Paulaus ...
: (
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
) *
Mr. Europa The Mister Europa European Player of the Year Award was an annual basketball award created in 1976, and given until 2010, by the panel of journalists of the Italy, Italian weekly magazine ''Superbasket''. Its purpose was to praise the best basket ...
: (2003) * 2×
All-EuroLeague Team The All-EuroLeague Team is an EuroLeague awards, award for European professional club basketball system, Europe's premier level league, the EuroLeague, that is given to the league's top ten basketball players for each season, since the 2000–01 s ...
: (
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
,
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
) * 2× All-Europe Player of the Year (2004, 2005) * EuroLeague Final Four MVP: (2005) *
EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer The EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer is the individual EuroLeague awards, award for the player that gained the highest point (basketball), points in the EuroLeague Finals, the championship finals of the European professional club basketball system, E ...
: (2005) * Israeli Super League MVP: (2005) *
50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors The 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008) of FIBA European Champions Cup and EuroLeague history were awarded and chosen on February 3, 2008, in Madrid, Spain. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary since the founding of the inaugural s ...
: (2008) * Greek League Best Five: (2009) * EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team: (2010) * Greek Cup MVP: (2012) * EuroLeague Legend: (2015) * FIBA EuroBasket 2000–2020 Dream Team: (2020)


Coaching honours

* Žalgiris (2016–20) **5× Lithuanian Championship: (2016–2020) **3× King Mindaugas Cup: (2017, 2018, 2020) *
FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
(2020–23) **2× Spanish League: (2021, 2023) **2× Spanish Cup: (2021, 2022) **2× Catalan League: (2022, 2023) ** Spanish Super Cup: (2022) * Fenerbahçe (2023-present) ** EuroLeague Championship: (2025) ** Turkish Championship: (2024) **2x
Turkish Cup The Turkish Cup () is a football cup competition in Turkish football, run by the Turkish Football Federation since 1962. During a brief sponsorship period with Fortis, its sponsored name was ''Fortis Türkiye Kupası''. Now Ziraat Bankası is ...
: (2024, 2025)


Coaching individual

*
EuroLeague Coach of the Year The Alexander Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year is an annual award of Europe's premier level basketball league, the EuroLeague, that is given to each season's best head coach. The award was first introduced in the 2004–05 season. The ...
(2025) * Catalan League Coach of the Year (2022) * 3× LKL Coach of the Year (2017–2019)


References


Bibliography

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External links


Šarūnas Jasikevičius
at acb.com (coach)
Šarūnas Jasikevičius
at acb.com (player)

at archive.fiba.com
Šarūnas Jasikevičius
at euroleague.net (coach)
Šarūnas Jasikevičius
at euroleague.net (player)

at NBA.com
Šarūnas Jasikevičius
at tblstat.net * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jasikevicius, Sarunas 1976 births Living people 1998 FIBA World Championship players Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Basketball players from Kaunas BC Rytas players BC Žalgiris coaches BC Žalgiris players Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games FC Barcelona Bàsquet coaches FC Barcelona Bàsquet players Fenerbahçe basketball coaches Fenerbahçe men's basketball players FIBA EuroBasket–winning players Golden State Warriors players Goodwill Games medalists in basketball Greek Basket League players Indiana Pacers players Israeli Basketball Premier League players KK Olimpija players Liga ACB players Lithuanian basketball coaches Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Greece Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Israel Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Slovenia Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Spain Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in the United States Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Turkey Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year winners Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. players Maryland Terrapins men's basketball players Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics NBA players from Lithuania Olympic basketball players for Lithuania Olympic bronze medalists for Lithuania Olympic medalists in basketball Panathinaikos B.C. players Point guards Shooting guards Undrafted NBA players