heinnews’s David Hein was at the NBBL All-Star Game at the Beko BBL All-Star show in Ludwigsburg and caught up with NBBL South Team star David Taylor. Hein and the 17-year-old point guard talked about playing with both the second division ProA Nürnberger BC and the U19 NBBL Cybex Bayreuth [...]
heinnews’s David Hein was at the NBBL All-Star Game at the Beko BBL All-Star show in Ludwigsburg and caught up with NBBL North Team star Ismet Akpinar. Hein and the 16-year-old point guard talked about playing with both the third division ProB Rist Wedel and the U19 NBBL club Piraten [...]
heinnews’s David Hein met up with 17-year-old Denmark prospect Rasmus Larsen at the FIBA Europe U18 All-Star Game at the EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania. They talked about what it’s like to play in front of 10,000 Lithuanians; his helping Denmark to the silver medal at the U18 European Championship Division [...]
heinnews’s David Hein met up with talented Serbian point guard Nenad Miljenovic at the FIBA Europe U18 All-Star Game at the EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania. They talked about winning the U18 European silver medal and playing at the U18 All-Star Game; his four-year contract with Partizan and his expectations there; [...]
As if Turkey were not good enough already in producing top level talent, now the Turkish Basketball Federation is planning a new development program on par with the wildly-successful INSEP institution and starting possibly as early as the 2012-13 season. “We are doing something like INSEP from France,” Turkey basketball’s [...]
When Tofas Bursa tip off their Turkish season in less than two weeks one of the most-watched players will be point guard Kenan Sipahi. “He’s a leader. He only needs to work on his body. He’s too skinny. Once he gets some muscles he will be a great player,” said [...]
Serbian coaching legend Svetislav Pesic was in Kaunas for the U18 All Star Game as well as the finals of the 2011 EuroBasket. heinnews’s David Hein caught up with him to talk about the state of European basketball – both at the youth and senior level; the need for bigger [...]
Polish center Przemyslaw Karnowski was named MVP of the U18 All Star Game at the 2011 EuroBasket. heinnews’s David Hein caught up with Karnowski after the game to talk about Poland’s long last three summers, a disappointing sixth place finish at the U18 European Championship and why he wants to [...]
Dario Saric is considered one of the biggest talents in European basketball. The 17-year-old Sibenik native helped KK Zagreb to the Euroleague Nike International Junior Tournament title at the 2011 Euroleague Final Four with a triple-double. He then played at the U19 World Championship in Latvia, after which he was [...]
Alex Abrines was named the MVP of the U18 European Championship in Poland after leading Spain to the gold medal. The 18-year-old was then named to the U18 All-Star Game at the 2011 EuroBasket. heinnews’s David Hein caught up with Abrines after the game to talk about playing in the [...]
