The name Svetislav Pesic is anything but an unknown for German basketball fans the Serbian coaching legend was responsible for two of the biggest successes in German basketball history. And now the 62-year-old is being heavily rumored as new head coach of the German national team. Pesic and the German [...]
Brose Baskets Bamberg center Tibor Pleiss called the hype surrounding NBA a “curse” and said he’s not interested in critics just looking at his statistics. The Oklahoma City Thunder No. 31 draft pick from 2010 has started to stay up into the night to watch what he hopes are his [...]
Croatian club KK Zagreb denied speculation that they had rejected Derrick Rose saying in fact that they wanted to sign the Chicago Bulls star for 20 games during the NBA lockout. The Euroleague club’s media director Damir Klekar blamed the false reports on a “clumsy” translating of an interview with [...]
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 [...]
For those not on twitter wanting to know a bit about how Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki is spending his time with the NBA locked out, here is a collection of some of his tweets on @swish41. The NBA champion took some time on Wednesday to answer his followers’ questions. [...]
Bayern Munich player personnel director Marko Pesic said it is very unlikely that German national team center Chris Kaman will come to the German BBL club and that he is still considering an offer from Lithuanian side Zalgiris Kaunas. “My information says that he has an offer from Zalgiris [...]
Bayern Munich are the biggest, most hyped basketball project in European history in ages. One of the main men pulling the strings is former German international and former player agent Marko Pesic, who is the Munich personnel director. heinnews’s David Hein met up with Pesic at Bayern Munich’s grand opening [...]
Bayern Munich opened their new home the Audi Dome with a friendly against Turkish giants. heinnews’s David Hein was on hand and found the time to catch up with Fenerbahce forward Emir Preldzic. They talked about expectations for the club this season; pressure on the club with the Euroleague Final [...]
Tibor Pleiß felt he made some major strides. But the Brose Baskets Bamberg center was diminished to a cheerleading role at EuroBasket 2011. Now it’s time for the 21-year-old to get back to business – and forget the summer. “After I didn’t get to play very much I had to [...]
The series of injuries Arvydas Sabonis suffered in the mid- to late-1980s actually benefited the Lithuanian big man, according to his compatriot Šarūnas Marčiulionis, who believes they helped Sabonis refine his game. Sabonis suffered his first Achilles tendon injury in 1986 and then had Achilles surgery in 1988 but was [...]
