Donatas Urbonas: President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda confirmed he’ll consider allowing to hold double citizenship for New York Knicks forward Ignas Brazdeikis, who owns Canadian passport. Brazdeikis didn’t appeal for dual citizenship yet, but he expressed his wish to represent Lithuania.
Ignas Brazdeikis Rumors
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Position: F
Born: 01/08/99
Height: 6-7 / 2.01
Weight:220 lbs. / 99.8 kg.
Salary: $898,310
Born: 01/08/99
Height: 6-7 / 2.01
Weight:220 lbs. / 99.8 kg.
Salary: $898,310
Jeff Siegel: Guaranteed salary, picks 40-48: Justin James – $2.4M Eric Paschall – $4.2M Admiral Schofield – $2.8M Jaylen Nowell – $1.4M Bol Bol – $50,000 Isaiah Roby – $3.0M Talen Horton-Tucker – $2.4M Ignas Brazdeikis – $2.4M Terance Mann – $2.5M One of these is not like the others.
Chemistry could be the Knicks’ big issue more than talent, Randle said. That’s why their get-together in L.A. was crucial. After Labor Day, players start to come to New York for informal workouts as training camp beginning Sept. 30. “It was amazing,’’ Randle said of the L.A. workouts. “Playing 2-on-2, 3-on-3. We got a lot of new guys — we signed seven, we got two rookies RJ [Barrett] and Iggy [Brazdeikis]. It’s important for us to get to know each other, spend time together on the court before training camp starts.”
Based on Lithuanian laws, a citizen who receives a citizenship from another country automatically loses the Lithuanian one. That was the case with Bazdeikis as well. The most famous case is that of Zydrunas Ilgauskas who accepted the American citizenship at the end of his basketball career subsequently losing Lithuanian citizenship. “It will mostly depend on the President, not on us. We will present the request. What is the possibility for him [Brazdeikis], who was born in Kaunas, to become a Lithuania – I don’t know. This time it’s difficult [laughs]. I imagine, if you are born here, it is not your homeland, but your birthplace. “It is important that he wants it. Because in the past there were other names, as an example – one’s parent wanted it [for their son to play for Lithuania national team], but he did not want anything at all. With Brazdeikis it’s different – he wants [it], that is why we will work to make him Lithuanian”, former Lithuanian basketball legend said in an interview to TV3.
Marc Berman: RJ Barrett officially was on Team Canada invite list for World Cup training camp. He hasn’t yet ruled it out. As we reported, Canada’s Ignas Brazdeikas, Knicks second-round pick, is eyeing playing for his native Lithuania. Was not on Canadian invite list.
In Brazdeikis’ case, the Michigan second-round pick has been contemplating suiting up for his native Lithuania, according to an industry source. Like Barrett, Brazdeikis grew up in Canada.
Bobby Marks: New York makes it official on the free agent/second-round signings of Bobby Portis, Elfrid Payton, Taj Gibson, Wayne Ellington and Ignas Brazdeikis. New York is right at $14.8M in room before Reggie Bullock is added. The team still has the $4.8M room ML.
