Sport of basketball in Lithuania

In 1891 American teacher James Naismith invented basketball. Year after year it became more and more popular, people played basketball in more and more countries. In 1922 Steponas Darius brought it to Lithuania. It became popular so fast, as TV after World War II.
In 1939 the occurred in Kaunas. A new Sport Hall was built for this occasion, and sportsmen still play basketball in it now. Lithuanian team became the winner of this competition again.
Women have never remained in the background of men. All time they tried to be in the same level like men and they always do it. European championship in 1938 was very successful and Lithuanian sportswomen won silver medals.
World War II didn`t stop development of Lithuanian basketball. In the time of the war, legendary players, champions of Europe, ran to the West, but Lithuanian basketball wasn’t dead. A few students team won the first Soviet Union championship in 1947. It was the start of the history of the biggest, grandest, and greatest Lithuanian Basketball club "Zalgiris". The name of this club comes from the battle in 1410, when Lithuanians beated the crusaders. This battle is named Grunwald in German or Zalgiris in Lithuanian.
All the time, when Lithuania endured yoke of Soviet Union, Lithuanian basketball was predominated in all Union. All the time Lithuanian players played in combined teams.
In 1978-1981 one of the greatest Lithuanian players_ generations started forming. In 1982 Arvydas Sabonis came to "Zalgiris". He started playing in professional team, when he was only seventeen and he is still playing now. In 1983 the biggest fights between "Zalgiris" and CSKA from Moscow started. It was not Moscow team; it was a team of all Soviet Union. The most players were subjugated by the way of deception. Soviet bureaucrats wanted Lithuanian players to play in Moscow...

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