Jonas Valanciunas was pressured to go to dancing lessons early in his childhood instead of basketball despite his height. “Kid, what are you going to do with basketball? You’re not going to make a living out of it. Dancing is at least pleasant to look at,” the center jokingly named the reasons others told back then. “It was an order for me to go there. I used to go dancing on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, and then as a bonus, I’d have basketball practices on Thursdays and Fridays.”