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Media: The shooter is close to a contract with AEK – Basketball

The 32-year-old Sagittarius spent the previous season in the Lithuanian club “Žalgiris” from Kaunas.

In the ULEB Euroleague, the Latvian played in 23 matches, where he averaged 6.5 points, 1.8 assists and 1.7 rebounds in 20 minutes. In the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL), Strělnieks averaged 7.0 points, 2.8 assists and 1.6 rebounds in 18 minutes in 34 duels.

Before that, Strělnieks played for CSKA Moscow for two seasons, and he also represented the teams of “Ventspils”, “Spartak” of St. Petersburg, “Budivelnik” of Kyiv, “Brose” of Bamberg and “Olympiakos” of Piraeus.

In 180 Euroleague games over eight seasons, Strělnieks has averaged 7.9 points per match, as well as 2.3 assists and 1.6 rebounds.

He also has six Eurocup seasons as part of Bamberg, Kyiv, St. Petersburg and Ventspils teams. In those, he averaged 8.3 points, 3.0 assists and 1.9 rebounds per game in 66 games.

Strelnieks has also been a permanent member of the Latvian national team, representing the team since 2010. As part of the Latvian national team, Strēlnieks participated in four European championships.

In the previous season, AEK took fourth place in the regular tournament of the Greek Championship, but stopped in the quarter-finals in the elimination tournament. In the FIBA ​​Champions League, the Athens team was the opponent of “VEF Rīga” in subgroup D and took the last, fourth place with a 1-5 record, failing to qualify for the second stage.

AEK is an eight-time champion of Greece, winning the last title 20 years ago. True, in the last 30 years, AEK are the only ones who managed to break the dominance of Athens “Panathinaikos” and Piraeus “Olympiakos” even for a season. Among the recent achievements, AEK has the gold medals of the FIBA ​​Champions League 2018.

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