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}} Nikolas Tomas "Nik" Stauskas (born October 7, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of Mississauga, Ontario, Stauskas played two seasons of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition for the Michigan Wolverines ending with the 2013–14 team before declaring for the NBA draft. Stauskas was drafted eighth overall in the 2014 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings for whom he began his NBA career. Towards the end of his rookie season, Stauskas was tagged with the nickname Sauce Castillo in a social media happening. Stauskas, whose family is of Lithuanian heritage, is a member of the Canadian national basketball team. After spending two of his high school years in Mississauga at Loyola Catholic Secondary School and representing the Canadian junior national team at the 2009 FIBA Americas Under-16 Championship, Stauskas moved to South Kent, Connecticut to attend South Kent School for a year, but did not play basketball there due to a hip injury. He then transferred to St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts where he excelled at high school basketball for two years, leading the school to back-to-back New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class AA Championship Games. The team won the NEPSAC championship in Stauskas's 2012 senior season, and he was the championship game's Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was also selected to the NEPSAC All-Class AA team. As a freshman at Michigan, he moved into the starting lineup for the 2012–13 team in the team's 7th game. He was named ''Sports Illustrated'' national Freshman of the week once, Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week 3 times and to the Wayman Tisdale Award (USBWA National Freshman of the Year) top 12 midseason list. During the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, he earned South All-Regional Team recognition. As a sophomore, Stauskas went on to be named Big Ten Conference player of the week 4 times during the 2013–14 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season. He also earned a national player of the week recognition from both CBS Sports and United States Basketball Writers Association. Following the regular season, he was a 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball consensus All-American and was named Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year. ==Early life== ''ESPN The Magazine'' journalist Adam Doster notes that one might consider the NBA's September 30, 1993 announcement that it was awarding its 28th franchise (the Toronto Raptors) to Canadian businessmen as the beginning of the story of Stauskas, who was born seven days later. This decision opened up a whole new set of aspirations for Canadian youth, according to Doster.〔 Stauskas has never played ice hockey and barely has played street hockey. He tried soccer at age six, but a broken arm put an end to that. His first experience with basketball came as a member of the Ausra Sports Club, which is a Toronto-based traveling team for children of Lithuanian descent. Stauskas grew up a Raptors fan with Vince Carter as his favorite player. At age eight or nine, he "played" Carter one-on-one at a Raptors open practice for fans held at Air Canada Centre, which boosted his enthusiasm for the sport. Ever since then shooting a basketball has been his favorite form of recreation. He became so devoted to basketball that his head coach at Michigan, John Beilein, said in 2013, "He doesn't know anything about hockey, he doesn't know anything about football. The other day we had him try to throw a baseball pass as a press breaker. And he had never thrown a baseball."In fifth grade, his parents gave him and his brother a choice on how to landscape their backyard: a swimming pool, a putting green or a basketball court, leading to the family backyard court.〔 He and his older brother Peter would play at all hours and all conditions, including a 2006 ice storm that was so severe that, as he recalled in 2013, "The ball couldn't hit the backboard without slipping off, but we didn't care."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nik Stauskas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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