Promoted side s.Oliver Baskets Würzburg, 2010 FIBA EuroChallenge winners BG Göttingen, LTi Giessen 46ers and ratiopharm Ulm all have picked up new coaches in the German BBL basketball league while Mike Koch will return somewhat unexpectedly to Telekom Baskets Bonn.
German 20-year-old center Tibor Pleiss experienced a pretty exciting night June 24 when he was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the first pick of the second round of the 2010 NBA Draft – No. 31 overall – and ended up a new big man prospect for the up-and-coming [...]
CLARIFICATION: Elias Harris is NOT in the NBA Draft. He will be back at Gonzaga for his sophomore seaason I apologize for any confustion I may have caused by saying he was in the draft. A dpa report had reported he would be there and I didn’t realise it was [...]
Bayern Munich remains in the headlines whenever a player leaves his club or is even unsure if he will return as playmaker Johannes Strasser is the latest German international to be connected to Dirk Bauermann’s new ProA second division club. “I am indecisive,” Strasser told the Bonn General Anzeiger on [...]
The quest to becoming a superpower in basketball as well has begun for Bayern Munich as new coach Dirk Bauermann made his first acquisition for this up-coming ProA second division season by adding former Yugoslavian international power forward Aleksandar Nadjfeji.
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.
heinnews’s David Hein this week caught up with Marco Baldi, manager of German basketball club Alba Berlin. They discussed the team’s tough contest against Barcelona in the Euroleague, new signing Blagota Sekulic, basketball in German television, the affects of the Euroleague Final Four on German basketball, the club’s long-term plans [...]
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 [...]
