Juozas Žukas

Jonas Juozas Žukas (October 29, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois - July 7, 1981)[1][2][3] was a Lithuanian basketball and tennis player.

He won a gold medal with Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1937.

Žukas lived in northern Chicago, near Ogden Park, and was known as Joseph "Joe" Zukas.

[4] His first visit to Lithuania was in 1930, where he worked as a sports instructor in the physical culture department in Kaunas.

[8] He returned to the United States, and lived in Tucson, Arizona, where he died on July 7, 1981.