So, the other day, I got it in my head to find out when Jānis Timma joined his various teams. You know how it is, you see a name, and then you just gotta know the details. It wasn’t for anything super important, just one of those curiosity itches I needed to scratch.
My Little Search Mission
First thing I did was pretty standard, I just typed “Jānis Timma teams” and “Jānis Timma career” into a search engine. That usually brings up a good starting point. I wasn’t expecting a neat little list handed to me on a silver platter, but I figured I’d find some sports news sites or player profile pages.
I spent a bit of time clicking around. Some sites give you a career history, but the “dates joined” part can be a bit fuzzy. Often, you just see the seasons he played for a team, like “2015-2017,” not the exact day he signed the contract, you know? That’s pretty common with basketball players, especially when you’re looking back a few years.
I tried to cross-reference a bit. Checked out a few basketball-focused sites, the kind that track player movements. Sometimes you get lucky and find old news articles announcing a signing. Those can give you a closer date, or at least a month.
What I Pieced Together
After a while of this digital digging, I started to get a clearer picture. It’s not always about a specific “date joined” like you’d clock in for a regular job. For athletes, it’s often about when they officially became part of the roster for a season. Here’s a general idea of what I managed to gather, focusing on the “when he started with them” part:
- Early Latvian Teams: My search showed he was with teams like ASK Rīga and Liepājas Lauvas pretty early on. Pinpointing exact “join” dates there was tough, mostly just season records. We’re talking way back, like late 2000s, early 2010s.
- BK Ventspils: This one came up a lot. He was there for a couple of seasons, seemed to have joined them around 2012, give or take. Again, usually it’s the start of the season.
- Zenit Saint Petersburg: This was a significant move. I found mentions of him joining Zenit around mid-2015. Summer signings are common, so that made sense.
- Baskonia: Then he moved to Spain. The info pointed to him joining Baskonia around 2017, probably in the summer before the season kicked off.
- Olympiacos: After Baskonia, Greece was next. Olympiacos. That looked like a 2018 signing, again, likely in the off-season.
- Khimki: This one was a bit more complex. He initially joined on loan, I think, in 2019, and then it became more permanent. So, the “join date” could be seen in a couple of stages.
- UNICS Kazan: More recently, he was with UNICS. That move seemed to happen around 2021.
- Lakeland Magic / Orlando Magic (NBA G League / NBA): There was a period where he was stateside, trying things out with the Magic’s G League team, Lakeland, and then a brief stint with Orlando Magic. This was around late 2021, early 2022. The G League stuff can be very fluid with signings.
- Grises de Humacao (Puerto Rico): Then he headed to Puerto Rico. That move seemed to be in 2023.
- Darüşşafaka (Turkey): And most recently, news popped up about him joining Darüşşafaka in Turkey. That looked like a late 2023 thing.
So, yeah, that was my little adventure in trying to track down Jānis Timma’s “dates joined.” It’s more about seasons than specific days, most of the time. You learn that the more you look into sports careers. It’s not like an office job where you have a clear start date recorded in HR. It’s a bit more about when the ink dries on the contract or when they’re officially announced for the upcoming season. Still, it was interesting to piece it all together.
