heinnews’s David Hein attended the premiere of the German basketball film Phoenix in der Asche (No Ashes – No Phoenix) at the 2011 Munich Film Festival. Also in the crowd was Bayern Munich and German national team point guard Steffen Hamann. Afterwards, they discussed the film, Dirk Nowitzki winning the [...]
Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has promised basketball fans of the promoted German BBL league club two more “rocket” signings by July 21 when the official team presentation takes place with Robin Benzing being rumored as next addition while the signing of Dirk Nowitzki could also be done if the [...]
Bayern Munich’s basketball project is taking shape as the latest piece of the management team was added with the hiring of former German international Marko Pesic as new sports director. The 34-year-old Pesic is the son of Svetislav Pesic, who guided Germany to the 1993 EuroBasket title and Barcelona to [...]
The biggest decision looming over Germany has finally been resolved as the German Basketball Federation (DBB), Bayern Munich and Dirk Bauermann have agreed that Germany’s most successful coach will only be head coach at Bayern Munich starting October 1 on a three-year contract. Bauermann will remain the German national team [...]
Despite Dirk Nowitzki leading the Dallas Mavericks to a sweep against the Los Angeles Lakers into the NBA Western Conference Finals, German national team coach Dirk Bauermann believes his star power forward will play at EuroBasket 2011 – if Nowitzki is healthy.
Dirk Nowitzki gave the first positive signs that he would play for Germany at the 2011 EuroBasket, saying chances are better he will be on hand in Lithuania than not.
heinnews’s David Hein went to Bayern Munich – Würzburg ProA German basketball game on Feb. 20 and beforehand got a quick chance to chat with club president Uli Hoeness. They talked about the record crowd of 12,000 fans at the Munich Olympia Hall; how good the media attention is for [...]
The enticing plot surrounding the coaching future of German national team coach and Bayern Munich head coach Dirk Bauermann took another twist this weekend when BBL CEO Jan Pommer said the German league was not responsible for the much-debated issue. “We are not part of the problem. But maybe we [...]
heinnews’s David Hein this week went down to Munich to check out the Bayern Munich basketball project with its “Mission Promotion” while talking to Bayern head coach and German national team boss Dirk Bauermann. They discussed Bayern’s 96-68 blasting of Osnabrück; Bauermann’s return to the club coaching bench; all the [...]
heinnews’s David Hein talked to BG Göttingen men’s basketball head coach John Patrick. They discussed the impact of beat Besiktas Cola Turka in the Eurocup – a game which would later be nullified and a replay set for December 16; facing former NBA great Allen Iverson; his team’s struggles in [...]
