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Dairis Bertans and Jekabsone-Zogota named Latvia's ''Basketballers of the Year''

BC, Riga, 28.11.2014.Print version

Dairis Bertans and Anete Jekabsone-Zogota have been named Latvia's ''Basketballers of the Year 2014'', informs LETA.

 

The eldest of the two Bertans brothers, Dairis, was one of the leader of the Latvian national men's basketball team this past summer, which qualified for the 2015 European Men's Basketball Championships. He is currently having a successful club season at Spain's ACB League basketball club ''Bilbao Basket''.

 

In the vote for ''Basketballer of the Year'', Bertans only finished one vote ahead of veteran national team point-guard Janis Blums, who himself is having a successful club season at Greek basketball club Athens ''Panathinaikos''.

 

Rounding out the vote was Janis Strelnieks (Bamberg ''Brose Baskets''), Kristaps Porzingis (Seville ''Cajasol'') and Kaspars Berzins (Samara "Krasnye Krylya").

 

Meanwhile, Jekabsone-Zogota was named women's ''Basketballer of the Year'' for the second year in a row. In 2014, she won both the WNBA title with the Phoenix ''Mercury'', as well as the Russian league title with Yekaterinburg UGMK.

 

Latvian national team coach Ainars Bagatskis, who is also the head coach of Russian Euroleague basketball club ''Nizhny Novgorod'', has been named ''Coach of the Year''.





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