Dainius Adomaitis


Dainius Adomaitis is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player.

Professional career

He started his career in Statyba Vilnius. Later he moved to Žalgiris Kaunas and became champion of the EuroLeague. After the successful season in Žalgiris Kaunas he moved to Zucchetti Montecatini, but he did not fit there. Therefore, he moved to Anwil Włocławek, and later to Śląsk Wrocław and finally in 2003 he arrived to BCM Gravelines. He became the captain of this team just a year later. Nevertheless, at the end of 2006–2007 season during the change of coaches, he left to Barons/LMT Riga. In August 2009 he announced the end of his career.

National team career

Adomaitis was a member of the Lithuanian national team, which won bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games.

Coaching career

On August 22, 2009, he was named an assistant coach of the Polish team Czarni Słupsk. On March 23, 2010, he was promoted to be the head coach of the team.
In June 2012, he signed a contract with Anwil Włocławek to be the head coach, but he was fired the same year because of bad team results. On November 19, 2012, he joined the Lithuanian team Lietuvos rytas Vilnius as assistant coach of head coach Darius Maskoliūnas. After shortly performing as the head coach of Lietuvos rytas, he joined Juventus Utena and was named best coach of the 2014–15 LKL season.
In 2015, he joined Neptūnas and was once again named best coach of the LKL season after coaching Neptūnas to the LKL finals.
On June 21, 2018, Adomaitis was hired as head coach by Rytas Vilnius of the Lithuanian Basketball League. On June 2, 2020, Adomaitis and Rytas Vilnius agreed to mutually part ways after both sides could not agree on a contract extension.

Lithuanian national team (2016–2019)

On October 25, 2016, Adomaitis was appointed as head coach for the Lithuanian national basketball team, following the departure of Jonas Kazlauskas shortly after the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Career statistics

EuroLeague