Avidas Sabonis Net Worth
Arvidas Sabonis Net Worth: Arvydas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player who has a net worth of $18 million. Arvydas Sabonis was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1964 and made his professional basketball debut in 1981 at Zalgiris Kaunas. Sabonis was with the team until 1989 when he joined Forum Valladolid.
He also played for Real Madrid from 1992 to 1995 before joining the Portland Trail Blazers in 1995, nearly ten years after he was originally selected by the club with the 24th overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft. year. Sabonis played for the Blazers until 2001, then Zalgiris Kaunas from 2001 to 2002, and the Blazers from 2002 to 2003. In 2003, he rejoined Zalgiris Kaunas until he officially announced his retirement from professional competition in 2005. Sabonis has a résumé filled with accolades, including six Euroscar Player of the Year honors. He is a two-time Mr. Europa Player of the Year, a FIBA World Champion and a three-time Soviet League Champion. Sabonis won the Lithuanian Athlete of the Year award four times and was named to three FIBA Teams. In the NBA, Sabonis received first-team All-Rookie honors. He was inducted into the FIBA 50 Greatest Players list in 1991 and was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame nearly 20 years later in 2010. Sabonis finished his NBA career with 5,629 points, 3,436 rebounds and 964 assists. Sabonis won the Olympic gold medal with the Soviet Union in Seoul in 1988. After retiring, he was appointed President of the Lithuanian Basketball Association in 2011. Two years later, he resigned about a month after the heart attack but reconsidered about a week later. Sabonis is married to Ingrida Miklionti, the first woman to be crowned Miss Lithuania. They have four children together.
