Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Deividas Sirvydis was born on June 10, 2000, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a shooting guard in the NBA.

Sirvydis spent his childhood in various European countries because of his father's professional basketball career. He lived for three years in Russia, two years in Germany, one year in the Czech Republic, and one year in Cyprus. Sirvydis often practiced basketball after his father's games but did not seriously start playing the sport until he was about seven years old.

In May 2018, Sirvydis won the 2017–18 Adidas Next Generation Tournament with the Lietuvos rytas U18 team and was named most valuable player after recording 18 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in the title game against Stella Azzurra Rome under-18 team. Sirvydis made his Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) debut with Lietuvos rytas on 29 May 2017, at age 16, and passed Jonas Valančiūnas as the youngest player in club history to play in the league. In the 2019 NBA draft, Sirvydis was selected 37th overall by the Dallas Mavericks but was immediately traded to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Isaiah Roby and two future second-round picks. On 1 December 2020, Sirvydis signed a three-year contract with the Detroit Pistons.