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Entries from June 29th, 2010

GM Heyder: Bamberg thinking concessions for Euroleague, focus on Germany

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Euroleague - Eurocup, German BBL

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.

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Bayern Munich add BBL champ Wyrick, Doreth; interest in Greene, Hall

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · German BBL

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 [...]

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Tibor Pleiss: The next Nowitzki or next Peter Fehse? Something in between?

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 FIBA World Championship Men, Euroleague - Eurocup, FIBA basketball, German BBL, NBA, college basketball

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 [...]

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Germany anxiously await NBA Draft with Pleiss, Ohlbrecht

June 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · 2010 FIBA World Championship Men, FIBA basketball, German BBL, NBA, college basketball

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 [...]

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Is Johannes Strasser Bayern Munich’s next acquisition?

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 FIBA World Championship Men, German BBL

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 [...]

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Alba Berlin get wild card for Euroleague qualifiers, five German clubs international in 2010-11

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Euroleague - Eurocup, German BBL

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 [...]

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Artland Dragons bring in Stefan Koch as head coach

June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Euroleague - Eurocup, German BBL

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.

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Gilchrist, McAdoo, Teague top U.S. Under-17 team for Worlds

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · FIBA U17 World Championship Men, FIBA basketball, college basketball

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 [...]

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Neumann drops school for professional ball, German BBL still dreams of Nowitzki

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · FIBA Europe Youth Tournaments, German BBL

German star big man talent Philipp Neumann has reportedly dropped out of school to focus on playing professionally for freshly crowned German BBL league and cup double winners Brose Baskets Bamberg. And the BBL once again has reiterated it would love to have Dirk Nowitzki finish his career in Germany.

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Nadjfeji first addition for Bauermann at Bayern

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · German BBL

The quest to becoming a superpower in basketball as well has begun for Bayern Munich as new coach Dirk Bauermann made his first acquisition for this up-coming ProA second division season by adding former Yugoslavian international power forward Aleksandar Nadjfeji.

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