Relegated club Giessen will return to the BBL next season after being awarded a wild card by the German basketball league. Another wild card may be handed out as the BBL awaits financial paperwork from Köln 99ers.
heinnews’s David Hein this week caught up with Stephan Baeck, manger of German basketball club Köln 99ers. They discussed the state of the financially-strapped 2006 BBL champions, losing and gaining players, bringing back Michael Jordan to the organization, the German U24 fond, a new arena and a fellow Köln manager [...]
The worldwide financial crisis has struck everywhere – even the German basketball BBL league. But one BBL club may have found a new way of earning money – the German version of the worldwide-known game show “Millionaire”.
heinnews’s David Hein this week caught up with Jan Pommer, the CEO of the German basketball BBL league. They discussed the state of the league, the worldwide financial crisis, how German clubs compare to others in Europe, Germany’s effort to improve their youth development, foreigner regulations, a new club in [...]
Numbers came out Thursday in the German BBL basketball league giving the up-to-date statistics about which clubs are playing the most German players under the age of 24. German basketball fans should be following ratiopharm Ulm, who have given younger Germans the most playing time while Walter Tigers Tübingen should [...]
