Lithuanians Grow Up On Basketball

2007/10/20 02:29:30 @NBA.com: News

In the TORONTO STAR, Doug Smith writes "basketball is a sport to which Lithuanians are born. It consumes their athletic interest from the time they are able to walk and has resulted in the tiny Baltic nation enjoying unfathomable success on the global stage. A country with a population of just 3.5 million – smaller than that of Metro Toronto – has won three Olympic medals in the last four Games and finished fourth in the other, been crowned European champion three times and is tops on the list of hoops-mad nations."
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