The Baltic gunner is 30 tonight. Linas Kleiza was born in Lithuania in 1985 and became a basketball player when he was a toddler! He started his serious career at the Sarunas Marciulionis Basketball Academy and stayed there even when his parents moved to the United States to pursue careers as artists. He joined them later to attend a Maryland high school and then the Missouri University. From there he moved to the NBA, in Denver, plyed one year for Olympiacos in Greece, came back to the NBA to play for the Toronto Raptors and last year he was a member of the Fenerbahce Istanbul team. Now he’s in Milano where today he celebrates his birthday.

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