Nik Stauskas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nik Stauskas
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 7, 1993(1993-10-07)
Age	31
Birthplace	Mississauga
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Libra

Nik Stauskas Biography

Nik Stauskas is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on October 7, 1993 in Mississauga, Canada. Sharp-shooting wing, who was drafted as the eighth pick in 2014’s NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings The team then traded him with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2015. He played two seasons of basketball at the University of Michigan and was named Big 10 Player of the Year in 2014. He also played a role in leading Michigan’s Wolverines towards winning the NCAA Championship game in 2013.

After Stauskas posted an image of him dripping 3-pointers at the college level, After Stauskas tweeted a video of himself draining 3-pointers in college, Stephen Curry challenged him to a shooting competition but the NCAA wouldn’t allow the game to happen. challenged Stauskas to a shoot-off but the NCAA did not permit the match to take place.

Nikolas Tomas Stauskas (born October 7, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player. 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 which he began his NBA career. Towards the end of his rookie season, Stauskas was tagged with the nickname Sauce Castillo after a closed captioning error resulted in a social media meme. Stauskas, whose family is of Lithuanian heritage, is a member of the Canadian national basketball team.

In the January 2 Big Ten Conference opener against Minnesota, Stauskas set a career high with 7 assists while scoring 14 points. On January 14, he had a game-high 21 points, team-high 5 assists as well as 6 rebounds against Penn State. On January 18, Stauskas scored 23 points including the final 11 for Michigan as the team defeated (#3) Wisconsin at the Kohl Center for the first time since the 1998–99 team did so, ending an 11-game losing streak at Wisconsin. Stauskas made all 6 of his free throw attempts in the final 25 seconds. The game marked the highest ranked team Michigan has ever beaten on the road. On January 21, Stauskas earned his first Big Ten Conference Player of the Week recognition. At the time he was leading the conference in scoring and 20-point games. On January 22, against (#10) Iowa Stauskas tied his career high with 26 points and contributed 5 rebounds and 5 assists, helping Michigan defeated consecutive top 10 opponents for the first time since the 1996–97 team. On January 25 in the Michigan–Michigan rivalry game against the 2013–14 Spartans, Stauskas contributed 19 points and 4 assists, including a 5-for-6 effort on three-point shots. The 80–75 victory over (#3) Michigan State marked the first time in school history that the team defeated three consecutive AP Poll top ten opponents and marked the first time since the 1986–87 Iowa Hawkeyes that any team has won three consecutive games all of which were against top 10 opponents. It also gave Michigan a 7–0 Big Ten start, which is the best since the 1976–77 team won its first eight games. His effort for the week earned a second Big Ten Player of the Week recognition as well as a CBS Sports National Player of the Week honor on January 27. Stauskas also earned Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week recognition from United States Basketball Writers Association on January 28. He led the conference in scoring and three-point shooting percentage through January, but he only scored six points when Michigan got upset by Indiana on February 2, ending a 10-game winning streak and 8–0 Big Ten conference start. Stuaskas established another career high in assists with 8 against Nebraska on February 5 as the team posted its largest conference game margin of victory since defeating Indiana 112-64 on February 22, 1998. On February 23 against (#13/14) Michigan State, Michigan rebounded from an early 22–11 deficit to win 79–70. Stauskas led the way with 25 points on 9-for-13 shooting and with 21 coming in the second half, including 10 that took the score from a 48–43 deficit to a 53–51 lead. It marked his first game with 9 made field goals. He added 5 assists, 3 rebounds and no fouls on his way to earning his third Big Ten Player of the Week recognition on February 24. On March 4, Stauskas had 24 points, including a career-high seven three-point shots, as part of a 7-for-9 three-point effort against Illinois to help Michigan clinch its 14th and 8th outright Big Ten Conference championship. On March 8, Stauskas had a team-high 21 points to help Michigan close out its season with a season-ending 84–80 victory over Indiana. On March 10 Stauskas earned his fourth Big Ten Player of the week award (this time Co-POTW with Shavon Shields). Stauskas’s four Player of the Week awards led the Big Ten for the season. At the end of the regular season, he was the only player in the Big Ten to rank among the top 10 for field goal percentage (48.9), three-point percentage (45.8) and free throw percentage (81.1).

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Nik Stauskas Net Worth

Nik Stauskas is one of the richest Basketball Player from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nik Stauskas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He represented Canada in the 2009 FIBA Americas U-16 Championship.

After 2 years in Michigan In his two years at Michigan, his 83.16 percent free throw percentage was ranked as the second-highest in school history and his 44.1 3 point percentage was in the top five.

Entering the day of December 31, Stauskas led the nation in three-point field goal percentage. This is somewhat confusing because various sources have various eligibility thresholds. ESPN reports leaders based on a 2 three-point attempts per game minimum, while BigTen.org only requires a minimum of 1.5 attempts per game for eligibility. NCAA.org requires a minimum of 2.5 made per game, and Stauskas had been the leader since the December 9 weekly report. On January 16, Sporting News named Stauskas the surprise player of the first half of the year. As late as January 28 Stauskas was leading the Big Ten in free throw shooting percentage (.833) as well as three-pointers made and was second in 3-point shooting percentage (.490). On that day, Michigan was ranked number one in the AP Poll with 51 of the 65 first place votes. It marked the first time Michigan ranked atop the AP Poll since the Fab Five 1992–93 team did so on December 5, 1992. On January 31, Stauskas and Robinson were named to the Wayman Tisdale Award (USBWA National Freshman of the Year) top 12 midseason list, recognizing their performances as being among the 12 best freshman performances in the NCAA competition. Stauskas finished the 18-game 2012–13 Big Ten Conference men’s basketball season schedule with a 37% three-point percentage on 30-for-81 shooting during conference play.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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The 2011–12 Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team had been co-champions of 2011–12 Big Ten Conference, but lost both of its co-captains, Zack Novak and Stu Douglass, to graduation and three players as transfers. The team was returning a nucleus of All-Big Ten players Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway, Jr.

Facts & Trivia

Nik Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Nik Stauskas celebrates birthday on October 7 of every year.

University of Michigan junior economics and psychology major James Giardina ordered the first custom maize and blue Canadian flag and waves it at half court during home games. ESPN’s Chantel Jennings tweeted a picture of such a flag at Crisler Arena on December 4, 2012. One of her followers noted that the big version on the wall was a general fan flag and that a little version of the flag was added next to it for each three-pointer he made in the game. By mid-December of his freshman season, the students in the Maize Rage (Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball student section at Crisler Arena) had begun cheering Stauskas on with such a flag. The Michigan Public & Media Relations office started mentioning the flag before Christmas. The flag was mentioned widely in the press as he continued his hot shooting into January.