Background
The son of Lithuanian immigrants, Arlauckas played four years of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball at Niagara University, with the Purple Eagles.
The son of Lithuanian immigrants, Arlauckas played four years of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball at Niagara University, with the Purple Eagles.
Thomas Jefferson High School (Rochester, New York).
He played at the power forward position. Arlauckas is well-known for holding the record for the most points scored in a single International Basketball Federation an League game, including only games played since the 1991-1992 season. He scored 63 points in a International Basketball Federation an League game, while playing for Real Madrid against Virtus Bologna, during the 1995-1996 season, on 26 February, 1996.
Radivoj Korać holds the all-time Euroleague (former International Basketball Federation an League) single-game scoring record, at 99 points scored, counting all games played since the competition began during the 1958 season.
Arlauckas was drafted with the 74th pick of the 1987 National Basketball Association Draft by the Sacramento Kings, along with their first round draft pick Kenny Smith. In his first season in the National Basketball Association, the Kings had a poor regular season record of 24–58 (6th place of the Midwest Division), which started with Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell"s brief stint as the Kings" head coach (during which time the Kings had a record of 17–41).
During his sole season in the National Basketball Association, Arlauckas appeared in nine games, averaging four points per game, in roughly 10 minutes of play per game. On 14 December 1987, Arlauckas was cut by the Kings.
He then went Italy, where he played for 6 months of time in the Italian top-tier Lega Basket Serie A with Snaidero Caserta.
He went on to have a highly successful career playing in Spain (one exact decade), playing in the Spanish top-tier ACB League. In six seasons out of 10 in the Spain, Arlauckas averaged more than 20 points per game. He scored 7,543 points in Liga ACB, for a scoring average of 20.7 points per game.
He retired in 2000 at age 35, after playing two years in Greece – playing one apiece with the Greek top-tier Basket League clubs AEK and Aris.