EuroCup Basketball Rising Star
The EuroCup Basketball Rising Star is an annual award of EuroCup Basketball, which is the secondary level European-wide professional club basketball league, that is given to the player that EuroCup Basketball deems its "top rising star". The EuroCup Basketball League is the European-wide professional basketball league that is one tier level below the top-tier EuroLeague. The award began in the EuroCup Basketball 2008–09 season.
Donatas Motiejūnas (in green), was the EuroCup Rising Star in 2011.
Jonas Valančiūnas was the EuroCup Rising Star in 2012.
Donatas Motiejūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for AS Monaco Basket of the French LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague. He was drafted 20th overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves before going on to win the 2012 Polish Basketball League championship with Asseco Prokom Gdynia. After spending four seasons with the Houston Rockets from 2012 to 2016, Motiejūnas joined the New Orleans Pelicans in January 2017.
Motiejūnas with Lithuania men's national basketball team in 2023
Motiejūnas (front) with Benetton Treviso in 2011
Motiejūnas defending Jeff Withey in October 2013
Motiejūnas versus Hasheem Thabeet in October 2012