Steponas Babrauskas | |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 6 |
Weight Lb: | 206.8 |
League: | Lithuanian Basketball League |
Team: | Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys |
Position: | Assistant coach |
Nationality: | Lithuanian |
Birth Date: | 20 June 1984 |
Birth Place: | Trakai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
Draft Year: | 2006 |
Career Start: | 2002 |
Career End: | 2020 |
Coach Start: | 2023 |
Career Position: | Shooting guard / small forward |
Years1: | 2002–2003 |
Team1: | Sakalai Vilnius |
Years2: | 2003–2006 |
Team2: | Lietuvos rytas Vilnius |
Years3: | 2004–2005 |
Team3: | →Sakalai Vilnius |
Years4: | 2005–2006 |
Team4: | →Leuven Basket Groot |
Years5: | 2006–2007 |
Team5: | ASK Riga |
Years6: | 2007 |
Team6: | Varese |
Years7: | 2007–2008 |
Team7: | Scafati |
Years8: | 2008–2014 |
Team8: | Lietuvos rytas Vilnius |
Years9: | 2014–2015 |
Team9: | İstanbul BB |
Years10: | 2015–2018 |
Team10: | Pieno žvaigždės |
Years11: | 2018–2019 |
Team11: | Dzūkija |
Years12: | 2020 |
Cyears1: | 2023–present |
Cteam1: | Pieno žvaigždės (assistant) |
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Steponas Babrauskas (born June 20, 1984) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently serves as assistant coach at BC Pieno žvaigždės.
Babrauskas was a runner-up in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) with Lietuvos Rytas, in 2004. He won the Latvian Basketball League (LBL) with ASK Riga, in 2007. In 2008, he returned to Lietuvos Rytas, and was named the team's captain. With Rytas, he won the European secondary level EuroCup championship, the Lithuanian League championship, and the Baltic League (BBL) championship. He was one of the most hated opposing players by the rival fans of Žalgiris Kaunas.
He had a brief stint in Turkey, in the 2014-15 season, a year removed after he left Rytas. He played for three seasons with Pieno žvaigždės, with whom he won the Baltic League in 2018. He moved to Dzūkija in 2018.
Babrauskas' first major achievement in basketball came at the 2003 FIBA Under-19 World Cup in Greece, where he and the Lithuanian Under-19 National Basketball Team won silver medals. He also won a bronze medal at the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, in the Czech Republic. He first won a gold medal at the 2005 FIBA Under-21 World Cup, in Argentina. He also helped the Lithuanian junior team to win gold medals at the 2007 Summer Universiade.
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10| style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos Rytas| 10 || 0 || 20.1 || .368 || .405 || .625 || 2.6 || .3 || .2 || .1 || 7.0 || 2.6|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2010–11| style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos Rytas| 14 || 1 || 11.3 || .250 || .471 || .500 || .9 || .2 || .4 || .0 || 2.4 || .8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13| style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos Rytas| 10 || 1 || 23.0 || .280 || .357 || .722 || 3.2 || .5 || .6 || .1 || 5.7 || 3.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14| style="text-align:left;"| Lietuvos Rytas| 10 || 6 || 17.0 || .545 || .261 || .800 || 1.9 || .7 || 1.2 || .0 || 4.2 || 3.1