Rihards Kuksiks (born July 17, 1988) is a Latvian professional basketball player, a small forward. Among other teams, he played for the Nizhny Novgorod club in the VTB League in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons.[1]

Career

Kuksiks is 201 cm (6 ft 7 in) tall. He represents Latvia and played for the national team at the 2011 and 2013 European Championships. At EuroBasket 2011, in five games he averaged 16 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game with a high shooting percentage. At EuroBasket 2013, he played eight games, averaging 8.5 points and 3.3 rebounds.[1]

In Nizhny Novgorod

In the 2013/14 season, Kuksiks played for the Nizhny Novgorod team in the VTB League, appearing in 7 games and averaging 8.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game with a field goal percentage of 48.8%.[1] In the 2014/15 regular season, he played 12 games (averaging 5.8 points), and 4 games in the playoffs. In the 2014/15 season he also took part in 7 EuroLeague games, averaging 8.4 points per game.[1] In the 2015 VTB League playoffs, the Nizhny Novgorod club met CSKA: Kuksiks took the court in three games of that series.[1]

Sources

  1. slamdunk.ru — Rihards Kuksiks (Rihards Kuksiks)