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Erikas Kirvelaitis (born June 4, 1996 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian basketball journalist and entrepreneur. He is currently the Team and Communications Manager for the BC Prienai of the Lithuanian Basketball League.

Journalist career
Kirvelaitis started his basketball journalist's career at BC Žalgiris, where he wrote game reports, took interviews and was the Žalgiris Radio as well as the ŽalgirisTV host.

Later Kirvelaitis joined leading Lithuanian basketball news site "Basketnews.lt", where he worked as a news editor. After a year he created his own basketball news site "BasketDream.lt", which co-operated with BC Žalgiris, BC Palanga and even was an official Euroleague Media Partner.

During the time he was working as a basketball journalist, Kirvelaitis also worked as Lithuanian Basketball League reporter and commentator.

BC Vytautas
In the 2017/18 season Kirvelaitis joined BC Prienai (BC Vytautas Prienai-Birštonas at the time) as a Communications Manager and later as a Press Officer and Team Manager of the club. On 11 December 2017, with the help of Kirvelaitis, the team signed LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, the younger brothers of Los Angeles Lakers player Lonzo Ball, both of whom reportedly agreed to join the team in the beginning of January 2018. Kirvelaitis and the BC Vytautas team since then was part of the Ball in the Family reality show featuring LaVar Ball, the worldwide known media personality and businessman.

40th William Jones Cup
After the 2017/18 season with BC Vytautas Prienai-Birštonas, Kirvelaitis joined Canadian basketball program 3D Global Sports as the Team Manager for the 40th William Jones Cup in Taipei, Taiwan. Canadian side lost only one game in the tournament, eventually becoming champions and Kirvelaitis - the first Lithuanian to win such title.