May 20, 2013
FENERBAHCE ULKER: Saras agrees to terms
Sarunas Jasikevicius - Lietuvos Rytas_29476Turkish champion Fenerbahce Ulker announced via its website on Friday that veteran guard Sarunas Jasikevicius has agreed to a contract in principle with the club. Jasikevicius (193, 34) arrives from Lietuvos Rytas in his native Lithuania, whom he joined during the Turkish Airlines Euroleague regular season. A four-time Euroleague champ, Saras averaged 7.3 points and 4.3 assists off the bench in six games, helping L. Rytas to a 4-2 record in that span and a Top 16 berth.

Jasikevicius started his professional career with Lietuvos Rytas in 1998-99, for one season, after which he played another with Union Olimpija of Slovenia in 1999-2000. His next stop was Barcelona, with whom Jasikevicius won his and the club's first Euroleague title in 2003. Jasikevicius moved the next season to Maccabi Tel Aviv, where in 2004 and 2005 he was part of the only back-to-back championship team in the Euroleague since 1991. Jasikevicius was MVP of that 2005 Final Four, which made him the only player in European history to three-peat while playing for two clubs. He later added his fourth title in 2009 with Panathinaikos as the team's second leading scorer and top assist-giver. Last season, he averaged 4.4 points and 2.1 assists per game in a reserve role with the Greens.

For his career, Jasikevicius ranks among the all-time Euroleague statistical leaders. He is 13th on the all-time scoring list with 1,876 points, eighth with 261 three-pointer made, sixth with 481 free throws made and fourth with 569 assists. Jasikevicius enters his ninth Euroleague season as the competition's all-time most-accurate free-throw shooter, at 92.1%. Jasikevicius is a two-time All-Euroleague first team selection. In 2008, he was honored as one of the 50 legends of the past 50 years of European club basketball. Last year, he was named to the Euroleague All-Decade Team. He has won a total of seven domestic championships in Spain, Israel and Greece and seven more national cups in Slovenia, Spain, Israel and Greece. As a member of the Lithuanian national team, Jasikevicius won the gold medal at EuroBasket 2003, a bronze at EuroBasket 2007 and a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Australia.
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