Sandis Valters
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Sandis Valters is a Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n professional basketball shooting guard
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...

, who plays for BK VEF Rīga. He is member of Latvia national basketball team
Latvia national basketball team
The Latvian national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Latvia in international competitions.-EuroBasket 1935:The Latvians won the first European basketball championship, the EuroBasket 1935 held by the International Basketball Federation's FIBA Europe continental federation...

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His father is a former Soviet basketball star, Valdis Valters
Valdis Valters
Valdis Valters is a retired Latvian basketball player.A point guard for the USSR, he is regarded as one of the greatest to have played the game in Europe in the 1980s....

, and his younger brother, Kristaps Valters
Kristaps Valters
Kristaps Valters is a Latvian professional basketball guard, who plays for Unicaja Málaga. He is also a member of the Latvian national basketball team. His father is a former Soviet basketball star, Valdis Valters, and his brother, Sandis Valters, plays professional basketball too.- Club career...

, also plays professional basketball.

Sandis has won seven Latvian Basketball League
Latvian Basketball League
Latvian Basketball League is the national basketball championship of Latvia. The first LBL season was played in 1992. From 1992 to 1999 all championships were won by BK Brocēni, however from 2000 to 2006 BK Ventspils were the champions. In 2007, ASK Rīga stopped BK Ventspils winning streak. BK...

 (LBL) champinships with most recent ones coming in 2007 with ASK Riga
ASK Riga
ASK Rīga is the name of a former professional basketball club based in Riga, Latvia. "ASK" stands for "Armijas Sporta Klubs" .-History:...

 and 2011 with VEF Riga
VEF Riga
VEF Rīga is the name of a professional basketball club that is based in Riga, Latvia. The club plays their home domestic league games at Olimpiskais Sporta Centrs in Riga. VEF Rīga is the oldest professional basketball club in Latvia and the Baltic region. The club name VEF came from the radio...

. In both of those years he was finals most valubale player.
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