🏀 Mindaugas Kuzminskas: Random Facts

🔹 Basics

Full Name: Mindaugas "Kuz" Kuzminskas

Born: October 19, 1989 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Height: 6'9" (2.06 m)

Position: SF / PF

Vibe: Euro finesse meets NBA hustle

🔹 Career Highlights

• 🏆 EuroBasket 2015 Bronze Medalist

• 👟 New York Knicks (2016–2017)

• 🧠 Possibly called KP “the most Latvian man alive”

• 💸 Waived to make room for Joakim Noah — tragic

🔹 Fun Facts

• 🎸 Plays guitar (probably)

• 🎬 Has movie star cheekbones, didn’t use them

• 🧀 “The Lithuanian Cheese Stick” — we made this up

• 🧠 Multilingual and sarcasm-fluent

🔹 Teams You Forgot He Played For

• Olympiacos (Greece)

• Lokomotiv Kuban (Russia)

• Unicaja Málaga (Spain)

• Your MyTEAM roster in 2K17 for like 2 weeks

🔹 Legacy

“He dunked. He smiled. He left.” – A Knicks fan, probably.

🧒 His older brother, Saulius Kuzminskas, was also a professional basketball player (it’s a family thing)

• 🎓 He started his pro career with Sakalai Vilnius in 2006 at just 17

• 🧼 He’s known for being one of the most well-groomed dudes in EuroLeague — clean fades, fresh beard

• 🛸 Rumored to be Lithuania’s second-most famous export after cold beet soup

• 🤝 In 2017, he was recruited by multiple NBA teams after being waived, but chose to return to Europe

• 🎭 Once said he’d love to act in a movie — preferably something with “guns and suits”

• 🎮 Favorite video game? Possibly NBA 2K — where he always rated like 71 but played like 91 when you knew how to use him

• 📱 Had a surprisingly wholesome Instagram before wiping it clean (mysterious af)

• 🛫 Fluent traveler — played professionally in Lithuania, Spain, USA, Greece, Turkey, and Russia

• 🧊 He once iced a game with a cold-blooded three in EuroBasket, and walked off like it was nothing

• 🧢 Never once wore a Knicks hat even when he was on the Knicks — you decide what that means

• 🧘‍♂️ Low-key zen guy. Big on meditation, breathing exercises, and not giving a fuck