Lithuania boasts Europe's best

  • 2005-07-27
  • From wire reports
VILNIUS - The best basketball player in Europe today is a Lithuanian, at least this is what the French say. Sarunas Jasikevicius, 29, was voted the best European basketball player 2004-2005 in an annual poll carried out by the French weekly Basket News. According to the Lietuvos Rytas daily, Jasikevicius has set a new record 's all 36 journalists from the 12 European countries participating in the poll picked him as the best player.The unanimous decision marked the first in the poll's history, conducted since 1996. Jasikevicius and his team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, once again became Euroleague ch...
 
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