Kaspars Cipruss (born February 2, 1982) is a Latvian basketball player.

Club career

Born in Rezekne,

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, Cipruss started his basketball career in Latvian powerhouse ASK/Brocēni/LMT in 1998. After extinction of the team he had a brief spell in Latvian team BK Gulbenes Buki. In 2000, he drew interest from Rutgers, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, UNLV and Boston College. Cipruss signed a letter of intent to play basketball at

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, but he had letter-of-intent problem, so he decided instead to play professionally in Europe. Therefore, he moved to Italy, joining

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team

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. Soon after he signed a 3-year contract with Slovenian Euroleague team

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, but was loaned to

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. Since then he has played professional basketball in Poland, various levels in Spain, United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Estonia and Lithuania. On 23 January 2015, he signed with Barons/LDz of the

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National team

Cipruss started his

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career with the youngest, U16 team. Few years later, in 1998 he was part of the team which managed to achieve 9th place at the

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and semi-final spot in the U19

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. Three years later he was also part of the senior team, which reached the quarterfinals of

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. Later on he has also been in the final tournaments in

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and

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Achievements

Latvijas Basketbola līga The Latvian Basketball League (LBL; lv, Latvijas Basketbola līga) also known as the '' Pafbet'' LBL for sponsorship reasons, is the national basketball championship in Latvia; composed of 6 teams. It is considered the biggest basketball league ...

: 1997-98, 1998–99 **Runner-up 2001-02, 2006–07

Individual

* BBL Challenge Cup MVP: 2011-12 * Estonian Basketball Championship MVP: 2011-12

References

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