Joseph John Arlauckas was born on July 20,1965 and is an American former professional basketball player of Lithuanian descent.
15 Facts About Joe Arlauckas
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Joe Arlauckas scored 63 points in a FIBA European League game, while playing with the Spanish club Real Madrid, in a game against the Italian club Virtus Bologna.
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Joe Arlauckas was born on July 20,1965, in Rochester, New York.
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Joe Arlauckas was born to an immigrant father from Lithuania, and to an Italian American mother.
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Joe Arlauckas attended Thomas Jefferson High School, in Rochester, where he played high school basketball.
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Joe Arlauckas played four years of college basketball in the NCAA Division I, at Niagara University, with the Purple Eagles.
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Joe Arlauckas attended school and played there from 1983 to 1987.
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Joe Arlauckas was inducted into the Niagara Athletics Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Joe Arlauckas was drafted with the 74th pick of the 1987 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings, along with their first round draft pick Kenny Smith.
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On December 14,1987, Joe Arlauckas was cut by the NBA's Kings.
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Joe Arlauckas then went to Italy, where he played for 6 months of time in the Italian top-tier level LBA with Snaidero Caserta.
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Joe Arlauckas went on to have a highly successful career playing in Spain, playing in the Spanish top-tier level ACB League.
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On February 26,1996, Joe Arlauckas scored 63 points, a record in the modern era of the EuroLeague, against Kinder Bologna in Italy.
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In six seasons out of ten played in Spain, Joe Arlauckas averaged more than 20 points per game.
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Joe Arlauckas scored 7,543 points in the Liga ACB, for a scoring average of 20.7 points per game.