Career
Born in Rezekne, Latvia, Cipruss started his basketball career in Latvian powerhouse ASK Group (a software company)/Brocēni/LMT in 1998. After extinction of the team he had a brief spell in Latvian team BK Gulbenes Buki. In 2000, he drew interest from Rutgers, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, Georgia Technical, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Boston College.
Cipruss signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Rutgers, but he had letter-of-intent problem, so he decided instead to play professionally in Europe.
Therefore, he moved to Italy, joining Lega Basket Serie A team Pallacanestro Trieste. Soon after he signed a 3-year contract with Slovenian Euroleague team KK Union Olimpija, but was loaned to KD Slovan.
Since then he has played professional basketball in Poland, various levels in Spain, United Arab Emirates, Czechoslovakian Republic, Estonia and Lithuania. On 23 January 2015, he signed with Barons/LDz of the Latvian Basketball League.
Cipruss started his Latvia national basketball team career with the youngest, U16 team
Three years later he was also part of the senior team, which reached the quarterfinals of EuroBasket 2001. Later on he has also been in the final tournaments in 2005 and 2007. Latvijas Basketbola līga: 1997-1998, 1998-1999 Individual.
