BK Liepāja is a professional

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club in Liepāja,

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playing in the

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and

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History

Basketball team in the city of Liepāja was first founded in 1991, just after

regained independence from

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. During the years team changed names, according to sponsorships. Previous team names were Liepājas Metalurgs, Baltika/Kaija, BK Liepāja, Līvu alus/Liepāja, Liepājas Lauvas, Liepāja/Triobet. The club was dissolved in 2018 and was replaced by Liepājas Basketbols. Team has a strong bond with the local basketball school. Liepāja team's greatest achievement in

is gained second place in 1997, but in 2000, 2011 and

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team won the third place. Since 2020, with the hiring of Latvian National team assistant and

2018 FIBA U18 European Championship The 2018 FIBA U18 European Championship was the 35th edition of the FIBA U18 European Championship. The competition took place in Riga, Ventspils and Liepāja, Latvia, from 28 July to 5 August 2018. Participating teams * * (Winners, 2017 FIBA ...

silver medalist

Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis (born August 11, 1985) is a Latvian professional basketball coach, who is currently a head coach for BK Liepāja, and an assistant for Luca Banchi in Latvian National Team. Career From 2011 till 2016 he worked as a he ...

as their head coach, BK Liepāja focuses on building teams around new talents. In 2021/2022 season BK Liepāja made their international debut, competing in newly founded

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. Liepāja won one of five games and finished the tournament at 5th place.

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Notable players

Edgars Jeromanovs Edgars Jeromanovs (born April 18, 1986) is a professional Latvian basketball player who plays the point guard position. He is currently playing for BK Jūrmala of the Latvian Basketball League. He has represented the Latvian national team in Eu ...

Mareks Jurevičus Mareks Jurevičus (born 17 January 1985) is a Latvian professional basketball player, who plays the Shooting guard, Small forward position. He's currently playing for the France ProA club Elan Chalon. ES Chalon-Sur-Saône (ProA) added to their r ...

Mārtiņš Meiers Mārtiņš Meiers (born 30 March 1991) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Rīgas Zeļļi of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. Professional career Meiers had a breakout year in his second season with VEF Rīga averaging 13.7p ...

Mareks Mejeris Mareks Mejeris (born 2 September 1991) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, who plays the small forward and power forward position. Professional career He started his pro care ...

Jānis Porziņģis Jānis Porziņģis (born 13 July 1982) is a Latvian former professional basketball player. At a height of , he played at the small forward position. He is the older brother of Washington Wizards forward Kristaps Porziņģis. Professional playing ...

Artūrs Štālbergs Artūrs Štālbergs (born October 15, 1984) is a Latvian professional basketball coach for BK Liepājas Lauvas. He is also a former player. Playing career Štālbergs started basketball career in his hometown Liepāja. In 2003, he moved to USA w ...

Jānis Timma Jānis Timma (born 2 July 1992) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Grises de Humacao of the Puerto Rican Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He also represents the senior Latvian national team. At a height of , he plays mainly at th ...

* Raimonds Vaikulis * Uģis Viļums *

Paul Butorac Paul Butorac (born November 25, 1983) is an American former professional basketball player. He currently coaches Lilac City Legends of the American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a major men's professi ...

* Vernon Hamilton * Josh Mayo * Ashton Mitchell * Malcolm Griffin *

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* Martynas Andriukaitis *

Valdas Dabkus Valdas Dabkus (born March 26, 1984) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. Dabkus plays at the small forward and power forward positions. National team career Dabkus previously represented the Lithuanian youth squads, and won a silver ...

Laimonas Kisielius Laimonas Kisielius (born 24 January 1985) is a Lithuanian professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete wit ...

References

External links

Official website
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