Germany’s hopes of success at EuroBasket 2011 took a minor hit as Gonzaga University star Elias Harris ruled himself out of Dirk Bauermann’s squad for Lithuania with lingering shoulder and Achilles tendon injuries. “I still feel the effects if the injuries and would like to fully recuperate from them this [...]
For the third straight year, the German Basketball Bundesliga BBL will be decided in the final Game 5 as Alba Berlin beat defending champions Brose Baskets Bamberg 87-67 to even the best-of-five series at two games each. Derrick Allen scored 18 points and Taylor Rochestie had a double-double of 13 [...]
Brose Baskets Bamberg moved within one victory of defending their German Basketball Bundesliga title with a 90-74 win over Alba Berlin for a 2-1 lead in the BBL finals. One more victory will give Bamberg their second straight league-German Cup double and their fourth BBL crown following 2005, 2007 and [...]
heinnews’s David Hein used the chance of the Bayern Munich-Würzburg ProA basketball highlight to have another chat with Bayern Munich and German national team head coach Dirk Bauermann. They looked back at his thoughts since the beginning of the Bayern Munich project; his up-coming decision about Bayern and the German [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Times are good for the future of German basketball right now with Robin Benzing, Elias Harris and Tibor Pleiss three young NBA prospects. Benzing, who turned 21 in January, is the oldest of the trio with Harris celebrating his 21st birthday in July and Pleiss not turning 21 until November. [...]
