Tonight we will see the familiar face of the Lithuanian guard from the second past.
Kaukinas, the 45-year-old is the president of the B Group.
C. Wolves from Vilna.
The team that will play tonight (18:00) in Ness Ziona as part of the Northern European League is one of the biggest stories of European basketball this season.
The team was established only last summer and already in its first season the extraordinary lineup it built points to its great ambitions for the future.
In the bottom line, she wants already in the short term to talk in Lithuania not only about the two big ones - Zalgiris Kovna and Ritas Vilnius.
Kaukinas as a Siena player.
Strives for the top even off the field, photo: AFP
Wolves shortened processes and did not start from the lower leagues.
It bought the rights of BC Dzokia Elitos and replaced it in the first league.
Kaukinas, who leads a sports investment company, was chosen as the man to lead it from the position of president.
Her ambition and great expectations will be evidenced by a number of moves.
It set the third largest budget in the league - 4 million euros - and for the first time signed a senior coach in the form of Rimas Kortiniitis, one of the greatest Lithuanian players of all time and a coach of stature, who coached Khimki Moscow in the Euroleague, a club where he was for 7 years.
An appointment that is a declaration of intent.
Under Kortiniitis, a strong team of players was built, certainly for a team in its first season.
Veteran guard Edas Joskevičius, center Eric Bunker, forward Rigmantas Miniotis (last season at Zalgiris Kovna) and Argentine center Marcos Delia were added to the team.
BC Wolves also boasts one of the oldest players on the continent, Mindaugas Lukauskis, whom Guy Panini is considered to be a boy next to.
The forward is already 43.5 years old.
In addition, the club is also trying to build markets outside of Europe with the signing of the Filipino guard Juan Gomez de Liano.
Corinitis and the bench of the wolves.
A coach who is a statement of intent, photo: BC Wolves, official website
This was just the preparation for his really big signing that came a few weeks ago.
A starting team like Wolves can be very proud of the addition of Jeremy Taylor, the forward who arrives after 7 years at Real Madrid and two Euroleague titles.
This is a significant upgrade for the name and intentions that are already backed up in third place in the league table in Lithuania.
Wolves wanted already this summer to join one of the top European events: the Eurocup or the Champions Cup, but it was too late.
She went to the Eurocup qualifiers and dropped out, but that doesn't stop her from her future ambitions to be one of the leading companies and, as mentioned, to try to break the hegemony of the two big ones in Lithuania.
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