Alba Berlin and Brose Baskets Bamberg are battling Saturday night to find out who will win the 2010-11 German Basketball Bundesliga league champion. But the Game 5 winner will also move into the front-runner seat for the services of Dirk Nowitzki should play in Germany in the case of an [...]
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 [...]
Brose Baskets Bamberg general manager Wolfgang Heyder admitted that he has never been as nervous in basketball as before his team’s Game 3 semi-final showdown at home against Artland Dragons. “I have been in the playoffs for 10 years. But I am more nervous now than ever before,” Heyder told [...]
With a lockout possibly looming in the NBA for later in 2011, a trio of powerful German basketball clubs are considering options of bringing in Dallas Mavericks superstar Dirk Nowitzki for the 2011-12 season. Bayern Munich, Alba Berlin and Brose Baskets Bamberg have all spent the past few weeks planting [...]
Brose Baskets Bamberg general manager Wolfgang Heyder admitted the freshly-crown German basketball league and cup winners may be nearing their ceiling and that management will be focusing on excelling in Germany next season and even making concessions in regards to the Euroleague as they lack the money to seriously challenge [...]
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 [...]
One of Germany’s top young basketball talents has been criticized by his team’s manager for not using his potential. Elsewhere, Usain Bolt’s coach thinks the world record holder can go even faster and the Denver Nuggets may have cause for concern after a major injury.
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 [...]
