{"id":1164,"date":"2014-06-22T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2014-06-23T01:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T23:10:43","slug":"former-lithuanian-stars-beat-esba-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/2014\/06\/22\/former-lithuanian-stars-beat-esba-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Ex-Stars Triumph Against ESBA Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em;color: #ff6600\"><strong>Arvydas Sabonis<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em;color: #ff6600\"><strong>Sarunas Marciulionis<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5em\"> were greeted by the loudest cheers in the Liepaja Olympic Center, as a team of former Lithuanian stars went on to defeat a select team of ESBA Promo Championship participants in an exhibition game held right after the opening ceremony of the championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although neither of <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Sabonis<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Marciulionis<\/strong> <\/span>stepped onto the court, it did not prevent the 1964-born Lithuanian team, which triumphed in the 1981 USSR XVI Youth Sport Festival and the 1982 USSR III Youth Games, to win the friendly game <strong>51-45<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The game was refereed by FIBA Golden Whistle recipient <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Romualdas Brazauskas<\/strong><\/span>, who is also the Chairman of the Board of ESBA and a participant of the championship taking place in Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>It took some time for the titled guests to find the rhythm, but the long-range shooting of <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Arturas Jasiunskas<\/strong><\/span> kept the Lithuanians ahead 31-29 at the halftime break.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of being close and tightly contested, the game was conducted in a fair play spirit, with both sides showcasing solid team basketball throughout all four quarters.<\/p>\n<p>During the halftime break, the winners of the three-point shooting contest \u2013 <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b>Eduard Leshukov<\/b><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><b>Algirdas Linge<\/b><\/span> and <b><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Natalia Alekseeva<\/span> \u2013 <\/b>were awarded in M40\/45, M50+ and W35+ categories.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Day 2 | Opening Ceremony, All-Star Game &amp; 3-Point Contest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUtPLR4jtDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvydas Sabonis and Sarunas Marciulionis were greeted by the loudest cheers in the Liepaja Olympic Center, as a team of former Lithuanian stars went on to defeat a select team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}