Career
He played as a shooting guard, and is the only non-National Basketball Association player to participate in the National Basketball Association All-Star Three Point Contest in 1989. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall. Kurtinaitis" former teams include Žalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid.
Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import in Australia"s National Basketball League, playing for the Townsville Suns in 1993.
In 1997, Kurtinaitis was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport. In the years 2002–2006, he took the position of head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team
Also from 2002–2006, he was a player for four seasons with British Columbia Gala Baku, working as a player-coach. He became Sakalai"s head coach during the mid-2000s (decade).
In December 2007, he became the head coach of the Polish League men"s basketball team Śląsk Wrocław.
On June 21, 2012, Rimas Kurtinaitis was named the best Eurocup coach of all time. On March 15, 2016, Khimki parted ways with Kurtinaitis.
