Domantas Sabonis is a Lithuanian-American professional basketball player with a $30 million net worth. Domantas Sabonis is a member of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings as well as the Lithuanian national basketball team.
He formerly played for the Indiana Pacers, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Spanish club Unicaja Málaga. Domantas Sabonis, the son of Hall of Fame basketball player Arvydas Sabonis, is an All-NBA Team member and multiple-time All-Star.
Who is Domantas Sabonis?
Domantas Sabonis was born on May 3, 1996, in Portland, Oregon, to Ingrida Mikelionytė, the first Miss Lithuania, and Arvydas Sabonis, a professional basketball player for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. He has two older brothers, Žygis and Tautvydas, and a younger sister named Aušrinė. Sabonis’ father retired from basketball in 2004, and the family moved to Málaga, Spain.
Sabonis made his professional basketball debut with the Spanish team Unicaja Málaga in 2012, at the age of 16. After loaning to Clínicas Rincón the following season, he returned to Unicaja for the 2013–14 season and made his Liga ACB debut. In May, Sabonis helped Unicaja’s junior squad earn silver in the Spain Youth Basketball League.
How old is Domantas Sabonis?
He is currently 27 years old.
What is Domantas Sabonis’s net worth?
He is estimated to be worth $30 million.
What is Domantas Sabonis’s career?
Sabonis attended Gonzaga University, where he played NCAA basketball. He made his debut in late 2014, scoring 14 points and grabbing eight rebounds in 20 minutes of play. Early the next year, Sabonis was selected West Coast Conference Player of the Week after averaging 13 points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes.
Following his outstanding debut season at Gonzaga, he was named to both the All-WCC second team and the WCC All-Freshman team. Sabonis helped the Gonzaga Bulldogs win the West Coast Conference by defeating the BYU Cougars. During March Madness, he helped the club advance to the Elite Eight.
Sabonis opened his second season at Gonzaga with a career-high 26 points in a victory over Northern Arizona. In December, he scored 36 points, surpassing that total. Sabonis was chosen to the All-WCC First Team during the regular season.
During his second March Madness, he helped lead the Bulldogs to the Sweet 16, where they lost to the Syracuse Orange. Sabonis completed his second and last NCAA season by doubling every statistic from the previous season. His career at Gonzaga ended in the spring of 2016, when he declared for the NBA draft.
The Orlando Magic selected Sabonis as the 11th overall choice in the 2016 NBA draft. However, he was promptly dealt to the Oklahoma City Thunder. In his first and only season with the Thunder, he averaged 5.9 points per game across 81 games and 66 starts. The club advanced to the first round of the playoffs but was eliminated by the Houston Rockets.
Sabonis was traded to the Indiana Pacers for the 2017–18 season. He averaged 11.6 points per game in 74 games and 19 starts this season, with a career-high free-throw shooting of.750. The Pacers made it to the playoffs but lost in the first round to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Sabonis scored 14.1 points per game in 74 games and five starts for the Pacers in the 2018-19 season, helping them advance to the first round of the playoffs for the second time. This time, they were swept by the Celtics. Sabonis went on to have a breakout season in 2019–20, averaging 12.4 rebounds per game and earning his first NBA All-Star selection.
Sabonis opened the 2020-21 season with a career-high 32 points in a win over the New York Knicks. He surpassed that mark in February, scoring 33 points in a loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, then again a few weeks later, with 36 points in a win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Sabonis went on to make his second All-Star appearance.
In May, he helped the Pacers win the greatest road game in NBA history, defeating his previous team, the Thunder, 152-95. Sabonis concluded the season at a career high of 20.3 points per game. In his final season with the Pacers (2021–22), he scored a career-high 42 points in a win over the Utah Jazz.
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