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 [...]
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 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 [...]
heinnews’s David Hein this week caught up with good friend Dirk Bauermann, Germany’s basketball national team coach. In part two of the interview they discussed Chris Kaman and Dirk Nowitzki playing for Germany this summer, Lucca Staiger’s impact on the German national team, getting Joe Herber some playing time, the [...]
heinnews’s David Hein this week caught up with Simon Cote, the first year head coach of German BBL club LTi Giessen 46ers. They discussed the turbulent start to the season, struggling to win on the road, German point guard Heiko Schaffartzik, what it’s like as a first-time head coach and [...]
