Lasmanis named FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2021 regular season MVP

JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) – Karlis Lasmanis was named MVP of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2021 regular season by a panel of fans and players on December 17.

The 27-year-old Latvian superstar continues his golden season after hitting the game-winner to become the first-ever 3×3 Olympic champion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The 6ft. 7in. (2m) lefty led Riga to back-to back-World Tour Masters titles in Abu Dhabi and Mexico and took home the MVP trophy at both events. No other player won two MVP titles this season.

The number 2 ranked player in the World is the Top Scorer with 177 points (7.7 ppg) and ranks first in player value (a metric used in 3×3 to measure a player’s overall statistical contribution) with 151.5 (6.6 per game) on the World Tour regular season.

Lasmanis won the player’s poll with 19.1% of the votes. The Ub one-two punch of Strahinja Stojacic (16.2%) and Miroslav Pasajlic (10.3% ) followed.

In the fan vote, San Juan PCI Group (PUR) star and Lausanne Masters MVP Angel Matias collected an impressive 43% of the votes, followed by the number one 3×3 player in the world Nauris Miezis (Riga, LAT) and his teammate Lasmanis.

The man also known as ‘Batman’ succeeds to Stefan Stojacic (2017) , Dusan Bulut (2018), Dominique Jones (2019) and Nauris Miezis (2020).