Donatas Motiejūnas

At 213 centimeters, Donatas Motiejūnas commands attention before he even moves, but what interests me is the journey behind the frame. Lithuania is a tiny nation utterly obsessed with basketball, and to emerge from Kaunas, get drafted 20th overall in 2011, and carve out an NBA run with Houston takes more than height. I respect that he kept reinventing himself, most recently playing for Crvena zvezda in the EuroLeague rather than fading away. There is something admirable about a player who tastes the American game, returns to Europe's elite, and keeps competing. That refusal to coast is what I find most compelling about him.

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Name (English)

Donatas Motiejūnas

Name (Japanese)

ドナタス・モティエユナス

Reading

どなたす・もてぃえゆなす

Born

September 20, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Kaunas, Lithuania

Height

213 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatas%20Motiej%C5%ABnas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715717

Tags

• basketball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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