Rihards Lomažs | |
Position: | Shooting guard |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 4 |
Weight Lb: | 192 |
League: | LBA EuroLeague |
Team: | Virtus Bologna |
Number: | 19 |
Birth Date: | 13 April 1996 |
Birth Place: | Tukums, Latvia |
Nationality: | Latvian |
Draft Year: | 2018 |
Career Start: | 2014 |
Years1: | 2014 |
Team1: | Jelgava |
Years2: | 2014–2015 |
Team2: | Jūrmala |
Years3: | 2015–2019 |
Team3: | Ventspils |
Years4: | 2019–2021 |
Team4: | ASVEL |
Years5: | 2021 |
Team5: | BG Göttingen |
Years6: | 2021–2022 |
Team6: | Merkezefendi |
Years7: | 2022 |
Team7: | Zaragoza |
Years8: | 2022–2023 |
Team8: | Baskets Oldenburg |
Years9: | 2023 |
Team9: | Merkezefendi |
Years10: | 2023–present |
Team10: | Virtus Bologna |
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Rihards Lomažs (born 13 April 1996) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Virtus Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague.
Lomažs started his career in Latvia, playing for Jelgava, Jūrmala and Ventspils. With the latter, he won the Latvian–Estonian Basketball League in 2019, being elected MVP of the Finals. In the summer, he joined the French team ASVEL Basket, playing also in the EuroLeague for two seasons.
After a few months with BG Göttingen in Basketball Bundesliga, in 2021 he joined the Turkish team Merkezefendi. He started the 2022–23 season with Basket Zaragoza, but joined the German club EWE Baskets Oldenburg in November 2022.[1]
In 2023 Lomažs returned to Merkezefendi, but on 29 December 2023, he signed with the Italian powerhouse, Virtus Bologna, where he played also in the EuroLeague.[2]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"| ASVEL| 27 || 6 || 13.2 || .398 || .386 || .848 || .8 || .8 || .3 || || 4.9 || 3.2|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21| 6 || 1 || 9.2 || .462 || .429 || .714 || .3 || .5 || || || 3.3 || 2.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| Bologna| 8 || 0 || 7.8 || .529 || .500 || .800 || .5 || .3 || || || 3.3 || 2.4|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career| 41 || 7 || 11.6 || .421 || .403 || .822 || .7 || .7 || .2 || || 4.3 || 2.9