Uvis Helmanis

Uvis Helmanis ( born June 10, 1972 in Talsi, Latvian SSR ) is a retired Latvian professional basketball player who played next to his home, among other professional time in Germany and with the association of Bamberg in 2005 German Masters. Most recently, he played until 2010 in his home for Barons LMT from Riga in the Latvian Basketball League first " LBL " and was then also briefly also coach this team. A season later he was appointed as assistant coach of the local rivals of the Barons, VEF Rīga, hired, who could defend their 2012 title. For the 2013/14 season Helmanis took a new job as a responsible manager of the Latvian club BK Lauvas from Liepāja.

Career

Uvis Helmanis began his professional career in the summer of 1992 for the team bonus Riga in Latvia's highest basketball league. After two years, the now 23 -year-old Helmanis came to the team metropolis, for which he collected a total of 3 years baskets, before joining Broceni ASK Riga, for which he was, however, only a year long active.

With his move to Bobry Bytom in 1999 Helmanis experienced a very successful season, was on average 15.8 points per game, achieve, and was then called in the Latvian national basketball team, became also there to service providers, participated in numerous tournaments and is still still active today as a national player. After a year Helmanis again changed his club and came to BK LMT Riga, before he was transferred again and went long for a year in Poland to basket hunt. For the 2001/02 season Helmanis succeeded by the change in the first basketball league Bayer Giants Leverkusen to finally breakthrough in Europe after the Balt had been a term previously available only to insiders of the basketball business. Despite a very successful season, in which he could (including playoffs ) to achieve an average of 12.4 points per game, left Helmanis Leverkusen and came after a year to GHP Bamberg, for which he was generally held for four years and with whom he even German champion in 2005. In other years there Helmanis reached Bamberg total of three times the runner-up and was once Vice Cup winner. Then it pulled the boots back to his home country to BK Ventspils. After a two-year commitment there and a brief stay at ASK Riga Helmanis moved to the beginning of the 2009/10 season to Barons LMT Riga, for he went on basket hunting until 2010.

Fined for grievous bodily harm and other barriers

In September of 2005, Helmanis, and condemned his former Bamberger fellow Mike Nahar and Steffen Hamann for aggravated assault in fines between € 13,000 and € 27,000. In the opinion of the Court, the three actors had harassed a young woman in a pub. When her husband intervened, it has come to a scuffle, during which international Hamann was injured on the forehead. After the situation had escalated. Before, and even after this conviction made ​​Helmanis by his conduct in several BBL games attention to themselves: in 2004 the forward for a game has been banned and sentenced to a fine of € 1,000 after he because of a fist strike against a Brunswick player was sent off in the match between GHP Bamberg and BS Energy Braunschweig. Furthermore, was sentenced Helmanis for violent conduct in the play-off game against Telekom Baskets Bonn in 2006 to three -match suspension and a fine of 2000 €. The lock Helmanis ' but was withdrawn because the allegations constitute false.

National

Since the late 1990s was Uvis Helmanis integral part of the Latvian national basketball team. Most recently he participated with Latvia at the 2009 European Championship in Poland, but you already retired from the group stage.

New start as coach

At the beginning of the season 2010/2011 Uvis Helmanis was introduced as the new head coach of the Barons LMT Riga. Previously, he had declared his playing career ended. After a short time he was there again and was released at the beginning of the assistant coach at Energa Czarni Slupsk in Poland. For the season 2011/ 12 was Helmanis then assistant coach of champions VEF Rīga, the 2012 defending their title. For the 2013/14 season he was then in charge of coach of the Latvian Association BK Lauvas from Liepāja.