Dhe squad of the basketball Bundesliga club Niners Chemnitz is taking on clearer and clearer contours. Arnas Velicka will play for the Saxons next season and is already the seventh new signing in coach Rodrigo Pastore’s squad. The club announced this on Monday. «Velicka is a very smart player who can create for his teammates but also for himself. In addition, its size fits perfectly into our system,” said the Chemnitz coach.
Despite being only 22 years old, the Lithuanian already has a lot of experience on the international stage. The guard left his hometown club Zalgiris Kaunas for FC Barcelona at the age of 16 but didn’t make it there. This was achieved by the junior international and multiple medal winners at junior European championships with the Estonian top team Tartu Ulikool. Velicka then played for the Lithuanian first division club Prienai CBet, the French first division club Champagne Chalon-Reims, Bundesliga club Basketball Löwen Braunschweig and most recently in Serie A for Naples.
Velicka contributed 21 points for the lions to the 93:77 victory of Lower Saxony in Chemnitz in the second half of the 2020/21 season. “We noticed the boy back then, but then moved to Italy. Now we’re happy he chose us,” said Pastore.
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