American Youth Basketball Tour rate your team as “Highly Skilled (HS)”, “Good (G)”, or “Average (A)”. If you are an all-star team, hold tryouts to select top players, or recruit players because of their skill level, you must play as a Highly Skilled team. Since there are no trophies or awards at the District Series Events, many teams will choose to play up or down a division, depending on skill level. American Youth Basketball Tour The American Youth Basketball Tour, AYBT, is a summer, high school and middle school based, youth basketball organization. The tour hosts 5 on 5 basketball events throughout the Midwest
Basketball in Lithuania was led by Georgian player Otar Korkia (17.3 points per game), along with Lithuanians Stepas Butautas (10.6 points) and Kazimieras Petkevičius (8.1 points). Two other Lithuanians, Justinas Lagunavičius and Stanislovas Stonkus, were also in the team. The four are regarded as the first Lithuania-born Olympic basketball players. Years later, Modestas Paulauskas served as the Soviet Union captain starting in 1969, and would lead the USSR to an historic upset of the United States at the 1972 Olympic Games, making them the first Olympic champions other than the Americans. According to journalist and future LKL employee Arūnas Pakula, "We felt like