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Simas Jasaitis

Lithuanian basketball player (born 1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ557846
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Simas Jasaitis (born 26 March 1982) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He also represented the Lithuanian national basketball team.

Professional career

Jasaitis' first team in the LKL was Sakalai during the 2000-2001 season. In the fall of 2001 he moved to Lietuvos rytas, and played there till 2006. In his first season with the club he was averaging 8 points and 3.6 rebounds per game. Jasaitis returned to Lietuvos Rytas on 31 December 2010. In July 2011 he signed a one-year deal with Türk Telekom B.K. On 5 January 2015 he went back to Lietuvos rytas.

On 5 July 2016 he signed with Victoria Libertas Pesaro.

On 28 July 2017 Jasaitis signed with BC Lietkabelis. On 12 September 2020 he signed with BC Dzūkija.

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The public source identifies “Simas Jasaitis” as lithuanian basketball player (born 1982). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Simas, Jasaitis and Lithuanian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2000, 2001, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Simas, Jasaitis and Lithuanian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Simas Jasaitis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.