Retired Lithuanian professional basketball players Arturas Karnisovas and Sarunas Marciulionis pose for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at T-Mobile Village at the Lift on Jan. 20, 2012 in Park City, Utah. (Larry Busacca, Getty Images)
Former Denver Nuggets guard Sarunas Marciulionis will be inducted in the FIBA Hall of Fame, basketball’s governing body announced Friday.
Marciulionis is one of nine inductees, including , Anne Donovan, Vladimir Tkachenko, Ruperto Herrera Tabio, Antoine Rigaudeau, coach Jan Stirling, technical official Robert Blanchard and contributor Noah Klieger.
The 6-foot-5 guard starred on the Olympic gold-medal-winning Soviet Union basketball team in 1988, as well as the bronze-medal-winning Lithuania teams in 1992 and 1996.
Marciulionis spent seven years in the NBA, playing for Golden State, Seattle, Sacramento and Denver.
