Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 31: Os Davis of BallinEurope and Dave of heinnews talk to Casey Jacobsen of Brose Baskets Bamberg about getting back in the right frame of mind for the Beko BBL playoffs and Esteban Apraez of ESPN International Marketing Solutions about the Basketball Capitals documentary series. For our Movie [...]
Alba Berlin added one of Germany’s top young point guard talents in acquiring U18 international Ismet Akpinar on a four-year deal starting this summer. Akpinar arrives in the German capital after playing the last two seasons with the Rist Wedel third division ProB club as well as the Piraten Hamburg [...]
Looking at his game, it’s clear to see that Daniel Theis is a rebounding and shot-blocking monster who loves to dunk whenever he can. But delve a bit deeper into the 20-year-old talent and you will find that he’s a true family man who likes tattoos, football/soccer and Kevin Garnett. [...]
- As appeared on FIBA.com on Jan 31, 2013 REGENSBURG (David Hein’s Eye on the Future) – Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius will get the chance to repeat their title at the famed Nike International Junior Tournament after knocking off Lithuanian rivals Zalgiris Kaunas 100-81 in the Siauliai Tournament to book their [...]
After much speculation about the future of 18-year-old German talent Paul Zipser since his signing with Bayern Munich, the youngster’s agent came out and said there are no plans at the moment to send him on loan to another team. “After the announcement of his move there was speculation about [...]
heinnews’s David Hein was at the Beko BBL All-Star Game spectacle and had a chance to chat with Germany U18 international star talent David Taylor, who led the South team in scoring in the NBBL U19 All-Star Game. They talked about improving his game; getting relegated to Division B at [...]
heinnews has built a reputation internationally on reporting about young basketball players. And now we are starting a new section on the site – Youngsters In-Depth. In the first installment, David Hein looks at Bayern Munich’s 14-year-old Richard Freudenberg of the club’s U16 JBBL league team. The 2.00m (6’5”) forward, [...]
We go China! Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 7: Jon Pastuszek of NiuBBall.com comes on to talk about Tracy McGrady, the state of the Chinese national team and a very odd foreigner regulation in the CBA. We also talked to former NBA player Garret Siler about playing in China and [...]
German star talent Daniel Theis set the record straight about a much-publicized contract dispute this summer between his former team New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig and current team ratiopharm ulm. “I was really agitated because there was a completely wrong image of me in the public. Braunschweig said they gave me [...]
The dean of college basketball Jim O’Connell of AP and guru of European youth hoops Christophe Ney of europeanprospects.com In Episode 5 of Taking The Charge, heinnews’ David Hein and BallinEurope’s Os Davis host a college basketball bash with the dean of college hoops reporting, Jim O’Connell from Associated Press, [...]
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