Less than two weeks after losing in the German basketball BBL Finals to Brose Baskets Bamberg, Alba Berlin have clearly thrown down the gauntlet that they will be 2011-12 title contenders as they signed past BBL champion coach Gordon Herbert and 2010-11 BBL MVP DaShaun Wood away from Deutsche Bank [...]
Brose Baskets Bamberg have dominated the Beko Basketball Bundesliga all season. And one of the absolute leaders for Chris Fleming’s team has been Predrag Suput. The 33-year-old Serbian was one of the most valuable players in the BBL and Bamberg will be relying on him to win the title. But [...]
The fate of top level basketball in Frankfurt was secured as Frankfurt International Airport operators Fraport have agreed to take over as name sponsor from the Deutsche Bank Skyliners starting on July 1. The name of the team, which will be hosting Game 5 of the German BBL semifinal playoffs [...]
Deutsche Bank Skyliners guard Ajene Malaki (AJ) Moye suffered a stroke and was in a Frankfurt hospital for tests on November 18 after a collision with a teammate during practice, the German club said on its website Thursday.
Alba Berlin failed to reach the second round of German BBL league playoffs. But that didn’t stop the heads of Euroleague on Wednesday from handing the club a wild card for the Euroleague qualification for 2010-11. Undoubtedly a big reason for the measure was Alba Berlin’s home arena o2 World, [...]
What a fifth and final game of a wild German Beko BBL playoffs! Brose Baskets Bamberg held off Deutsche Bank Skyliners from Frankfurt 72-70 to capture the third German league crown in club history and first ever double.
heinnews’s David Hein figured this week it was time to chat again with German basketball national team coach after quite some time without catching up with the former Bamberg boss. In the first part of a two-part interview, they talked about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa; the BBL [...]
heinnews’s David Hein is in Bamberg tonight for Game One of the German BBL playoff finals between Brose Baskets Bamberg and Deutsche Bank Skyliners. The action starts at 7:30 p.m. CET
The BBL playoff finals are set as Deutsche Bank Skyliners finished off the Eisbaeren Bremerhaven 3-2 in their best of five series by winning on the road 56-52 in overtime. In the finals, the 2004 champions Frankfurt will take on 2005 and 2007 BBL champions and 2010 German Cup winners [...]
Going into the 2009-10 season, reigning German BBL league champions EWE Baskets Oldenburg are leading the two-year rankings for Germany’s automatic bid for the Euroleague. But there have been changes made to the number of points clubs collect this season.
