Talk:Šarūnas Jasikevičius

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I took my best shot at attempting to provide a pronounciation help for his last name; if anyone's got a better one, by all means go for it. :) ekedolphin 12:11, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, Can I add him as a Golden State Warriors player? Seems like others already attempted to do so but some other user kept undoing it, along with a lot of other reversions of seemingly well-intentioned edits I can see from the History - thanks. :) --Downwards 00:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

With the Manual of Style in mind, I propose the following edits:

Šarūnas Jasikevičius (pronunciation (help·info); born March 5, 1976) is a Lithuanian point guard for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. In 2006 he married Linor Abargil, winner of the Miss World beauty pageant in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

Jasikevičius was born in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, in the Soviet Union. He moved to the United States at a young age, playing high school basketball at Solanco High School in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, and college basketball at the University of Maryland. Although he was moderately successful on that level, Jasikevičius went undrafted in the 1998 NBA Draft and returned to Lithuania to play for Lietuvos Rytas for one season (1998-99). He spent 1999-2000 in Slovenia with Olimpija Ljubljana.

What do y'all think? Olessi 22:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, Soviet Union necessary? We have LTSSR already. M.K. 22:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

The LTSSR was not an independent state, but a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Hypothetically, Jasikevičius would have competed internationally for the Soviet Union national basketball team, not for the LTSSR basketball team. Just listing the LTSSR may lead unknowing readers to assume that Lithuania was then independent instead of foreign-controlled. Olessi 00:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

But he did not played for SSSR aka Soviet Union, did he? :) M.K. 22:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)