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.
In a continuation of last week’s chat with Dirk Bauermann, heinnews’s David Hein asked the German basketball national team coach about the latest on Dirk Nowitzki playing at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey; the importance of Germany’s young players lining up with Nowitzki and Chris Kaman and speculation [...]
NBA teams will have the entire 2010-11 season to figure out if they want to draft Robin Benzing as the talent 21-year-old German hoops talent decided in the last minute to pull his name out of the 2010 NBA Draft.
heinnews’ David Hein took a trip up to Bamberg to talk to young German basketball national team center Tibor Pleiss from Brose Baskets Bamberg. They discussed Pleiss’s eventful summer; what he learned from playing against players like Sofoklis Schortsanitis; the insolvency of Köln 99ers; Germany’s new regulations for German players; [...]
Germany’s record international Patrick Femerling finally found a club for this season as the 34-year-old center signed with Turkish top flight club Antalya BSB.
Finally, the heinnews Live Blog returns!!! On October 21, 2009 – heinnews’s David Hein will be on writing a live blog about the Eurocup Qualifying Round basketball game between Brose Baskets Bamberg and Buducnost m:tel.The live blog starts at 7:45 pm CET
heinnews’s David Hein was at the 2009 EuroBasket Women and caught up with FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann. In the first part of a two-part interview, they discussed Latvia hosting the women’s European championship; the 2010 FIBA World Championship Men in Turkey; Germany hosting the 2010 U17 World Championship Men; [...]
The next step to increasing the level of basketball in Germany was met Friday in Geneva as the FIBA Central Board awarded Germany and Hamburg the right to host the 2010 U17 World Championship for Men in July 2010.
