Antanas Kavaliauskas

Antanas Kavaliauskas (born September 19, 1984) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. He is also a former Texas A&M University college basketball player. Antanas Kavaliauskas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, to Birutė Kavaliauskienė. After his parents divorced when he was eleven, Kavaliauskas lived with his mother, grandmother, and younger sister Eglė in a small apartment in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. His mother is a former volleyball player who spent years working as a hairdresser before supporting her family with a job as a security guard. When Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Birutė Kavaliauskienė sent her son away for several weeks to protect him from the Soviet troops who were...