Toms Leimanis Photo: Sintija Zandersone / LETA
Latvian basketball national team candidate Toms Leimanis has moved from the Ukrainian club “Odessa” to the Lithuanian team Klaipeda “Neptunas”, the Klaipeda club announced on Thursday. One day with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Neptunas was announced to be a basketball player.
It has already been reported that foreign players are leaving the country due to the tense situation in Ukraine, and Leimanis, who is currently preparing for the World Cup qualifiers with Belgium as part of the Latvian national team, will spend the next part of the season in Lithuania. The 27-year-old Leimanis has replaced the defending defender Aizek Bonton.
“We have been following Leiman’s game for several years. He is exactly the player we need – he can play aggressively, attack from a distance and create points for the teammates, ”says Daiņi Vaitelis, Sports Director of Neptuna.
Since 2018, Ventspils has played in foreign clubs in Estonia, Greece, Spain, Belarus and Ukraine. Last season, he represented Minsk’s “Tsmoki”, the Odessa team, which has scored an average of 13.4 points per game in 31 minutes this season, has won 2.8 balls under the baskets, played 3.1 times and scored with efficiency. 12.5. The three-point throw guard is a throw with more than 40 percent accuracy.
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