Baltic basketball storm hits NBA’s East Coast

  • 2016-06-15
The Baltic Times senior sports writer Victor Shestopalov reflects on the season the Lithuanian centre Jonas Valanciunas and Latvian forward Kristaps Porzingis have had in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the world’s most powerful basketball league. The Baltic Sea churns up pretty calm waters, especially inside the Gulf of Riga — we all know it. But the basketball version of this water sanctuary was all but calm when it hit the NBA’s East Coast this past season — battering like a tsunami. The versatile play of 20-year-old Latvian forward K...
 
The article you requested can be accessed only by subscribing to the online version of The Baltic Times. If you are already subscribed to The Baltic Times, please authorize yourself.


In case you don't have a subscription yet - please visit our SUBSCRIPTION section