German superstar Dirk Nowitzki will not play at the 2010 FIBA World Championship, saying he would rather concentrate on the NBA this up-coming season but at the same time committed to playing at the 2011 Eurobasket in Lithaunia
The Dallas Mavericks power forward made his announcement on the German Basketball Federation website on Tuesday. [Read more →]
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By Janine Engeleiter
Heavily pregnant women struggle along the sidewalk talking about the sad failures of some World Cup scenes instead of obstetrics, breathing techniques or a diaper-changing course. That’s the point when football fever has reached everyone.
Well, almost everyone.
Another world championship was taking place in the backdrop of the roar of vuvuzellas. For the first time in history, 17-year-old basketball players were given the chance to demonstrate their skills internationally at the 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in the northern German city of Hamburg. [Read more →]
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Brose Baskets Bamberg general manager Wolfgang Heyder admitted the freshly-crown German basketball league and cup winners may be nearing their ceiling and that management will be focusing on excelling in Germany next season and even making concessions in regards to the Euroleague as they lack the money to seriously challenge internationally. [Read more →]
Bayern Munich’s quest for promotion to the top flight in German basketball took another step as they added German BBL league champion Beckham Wyrick from Brose Baskets Bamberg as well as former German U20 international Bastian Doreth.
A club official also confirmed they are interested in adding German international Demond Greene to the second division ProA side and veteran American power forward Darius Hall is also linked to the club. [Read more →]
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German 20-year-old center Tibor Pleiss experienced a pretty exciting night June 24 when he was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the first pick of the second round of the 2010 NBA Draft – No. 31 overall – and ended up a new big man prospect for the up-and-coming Oklahoma City Thunder.
So is Tibor Pleiss the next Dirk Nowitzki or the next Peter Fehse? One thing is certain, there is something about the Thunder and Germany. [Read more →]
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CLARIFICATION: Elias Harris is NOT in the NBA Draft. He will be back at Gonzaga for his sophomore seaason I apologize for any confustion I may have caused by saying he was in the draft. A dpa report had reported he would be there and I didn’t realise it was a faulty report. Again, I apologize for any confusion. I have struck through all falsities in the previous report. - David Hein
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While German football fans celebrated their national team advancing to the Round of 16 of the 2010 World Cup, German basketball fans were anxiously awaiting a big Thursday with two three Germans included on the list of NBA Draft eligible players – Elias Harris, Tibor Pleiss and Tim Ohlbrecht. [Read more →]
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Bayern Munich remains in the headlines whenever a player leaves his club or is even unsure if he will return as playmaker Johannes Strasser is the latest German international to be connected to Dirk Bauermann’s new ProA second division club.
“I am indecisive,” Strasser told the Bonn General Anzeiger on Wednesday about if he would return to Telekom Baskets Bonn or leave the team. [Read more →]
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Alba Berlin failed to reach the second round of German BBL league playoffs. But that didn’t stop the heads of Euroleague on Wednesday from handing the club a wild card for the Euroleague qualification for 2010-11.
Undoubtedly a big reason for the measure was Alba Berlin’s home arena o2 World, where the team averaged 10,207 spectators per home game. [Read more →]
After three-and-a-half years away from the sidelines, Stefan Koch returned to a head coaching post as he took over the reigns at Artland Dragons, who have not made the German BBL playoffs in the past two seasons. [Read more →]
Kentucky recruits Michael Gilchrist and Marquis Teague as well as North Carolina-bound James McAdoo head the 12-man United States roster for the Under-17 World Championship in Hamburg, Germany for July 2-11.
The Philadelphia area product Gilchrist is widely considered the number one player in the high school class of 2011 while McAdoo and Teague are also top five in the class. [Read more →]
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