Artūras Gudaitis
Artūras Gudaitis (left) as a Žalgiris member
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| No. 7 – Lietuvos rytas Vilnius | |
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| Position | Power forward / Center |
| League |
Lithuanian Basketball League EuroCup |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
19 June 1993 Klaipėda, Lithuania |
| Nationality | Lithuanian |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 254 lb (115 kg) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 2015 / Round: 2 / Pick: 47th overall |
| Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers | |
| Playing career | 2010–present |
| Career history | |
| 2010–2011 | LCC Klaipėda |
| 2011–2012 | Gargždai-Bremena |
| 2012 | Nafta-Universitetas Klaipėda |
| 2012–2013 | Žalgiris-2 Kaunas |
| 2013–2015 | Žalgiris Kaunas |
| 2015–present | Lietuvos rytas Vilnius |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Artūras Gudaitis (born 19 June 1993) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Lietuvos rytas Vilnius of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he plays at the center position.
Before starting his professional career, Gudaitis played in the RKL with the LCC Klaipėda for one season. The next two seasons he played in NKL, and on his last season with Žalgiris-2 Kaunas he won a bronze medal. Gudaitis was respectively nominated as a most promising young player of the league on the same year.
On 6 August 2013, Gudaitis signed a professional contract with Žalgiris Kaunas for two years and was brought into the main Žalgiris roster. Whilst suffering from the knee injury in the first half of the season he had his breakthrough game against Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in the EuroLeague tournament, scoring 14 points with 6 rebounds. Gudaitis vastly improved during the regular season, and was called an x-factor of victorious LKL semi-final series against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius.
During 2014–15 LKL season his powerful dunk over Artūras Jomantas was selected as the Top Play of the Regular Season.
On 2 July 2015, he signed a 2+1 contract with Lietuvos rytas Vilnius.
On 9 November 2016, Gudaitis scored a career-high 17 points and got 11 rebounds in a 101–84 win over Montakit Fuenlabrada in EuroCup Basketball game. One week later, on 16 November 2016, Gudaitis scored 12 points and got a career-high 15 rebounds.
On 26 February 2015 Gudaitis announced that he was going to participate in the 2015 NBA draft and prior to the NBA draft, it was reported that 11 teams were interested in his services.
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