BC Dzūkija ( lt, Krepšinio klubas Dzūkija) was a

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club located in

Alytus Alytus is a city with municipal rights in southern Lithuania. It is the capital of Alytus County. Its population in 2022 was 53,925. Alytus is the historical centre of the Dzūkija region. The city lies on the banks of the Nemunas River. The maj ...

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. It was founded in 2012 and participated in the

Lietuvos krepšinio lyga Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (LKL) (''English'': Lithuanian Basketball League), also known as Betsafe LKL for sponsorship reasons, is the premier professional men's club basketball league in Lithuania. It is composed of 12 teams, and it is a member o ...

(LKL). It was the newest basketball club based in Alytus after

BC Alita BC Alita was a basketball club from Alytus, Lithuania. It was founded in 1995, when the BC Savy Vilnius headquarters moved the club to Alytus, as part of the geographical expansion of the LKL. The team was named after its sponsor, Alita. BC A ...

and

BC Alytus BC Alytus ( lt, Krepšinio Klubas Alytus) is the historical basketball club of Alytus, Lithuania. It was founded in 2005, as a successor to BC Alita, and participated in the Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga (Lithuanian Basketball League) and the Baltic ...

were dissolved. The club was bought by Lithuanian businessman

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in June 2022, who formed

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soon after.

History

In 2019, the club changed its name to Sintek-Dzūkija for sponsorship reasons. It dissolved in 2022 after businessman

bought the club. The team’s last game was Game 4 of the 2021-22 LKL playoffs, where they lost to Rytas Vilnius and lost the series 1-3.

Notable players

* Adam Lapeta (2013-2016, 2021–2022) *

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(2014-2016) *

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(2014–2015, 2018–2022) * Tadas Rinkūnas (2015-2016, 2020–2022) *

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(2016) * Katin Reinhardt (2017-2018) * Perry Petty (2018) *

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(2018–2020) * Ken Brown (2018) *

Steponas Babrauskas Steponas Babrauskas (born June 20, 1984) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. Professional career Babrauskas was a runner-up in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) with Lietuvos Rytas, in 2004. He won the Latvian Basketball League ...

(2018–2019) *

Kerem Kanter Kerem Kanter (born 29 April 1995) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Akita Northern Happinets of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for Wisconsin–Green Bay and the Xavier Musketeers. Kanter is the younger brother ...

(2019) *

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(2019-2020)

Season by season

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Head coaches

Valdemaras Chomičius Valdemaras Chomičius (also known as Valdemaras Homicius; born May 4, 1959) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player for the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball team, and an assistant coach for the Lithuanian national team. A ...

2018–2020 * Nikola Vasilev 2020–present

References

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