As if Chester Frazier’s departure right in the middle of the playoffs didn’t cause enough of a distraction for s.Oliver Baskets in their fight against ratiopharm ulm, now a media war of words has broken out between the two sides in the aftermath. Frazier was blasted in the media in […]
Despite a disturbing tendency to allow teams to come back from big deficits, Brose Baskets still are overwhelming favorites to finish off their double-three-peat of Beko BBL and Top Four Cup titles. But Bamberg GM Wolfgang Heyder may face the biggest task yet in putting a team together for next […]
Germany’s Beko BBL will have an even more German face next season as the final step of the league’s foreigner regulation plan kicks in for the 2012-13 season. But will teams needing a sixth German on 12-man rosters mean Germans playing abroad will return to their homeland? Or will more […]
A bum knee could not stop Tibor Pleiß from blocking a season-high six shots in helping Brose Baskets Bamberg beat Artland Dragons 81-71 on the road to grab a 2-0 series lead over Artland in the Beko BBL semifinal playoffs. Pleiß missed both of his field goal attempts – including […]
Two-time defending German champions Brose Baskets Bamberg and the NBA championship contenders Oklahoma City Thunder breathed a collective sigh of relief as an MRI on prized center Tibor Pleiß showed no serious damage to his right knee. “Fortunately, there was nothing torn and the knee capsule was only overstretched,” said […]
New head coach Svetislav Pesic named 15 players 23 years or younger including a number of first-timers for the first training camp of Germany’s senior national team ahead of qualifying for the 2013 EuroBasket. The roster features six players who are currently 20 years old: Boston College shooting guard Patrick […]
Brose Baskets took a 1-0 lead in their best-of-five semifinals German Beko BBL playoffs with a dominating 103-70 victory over Artland Dragons. But the two-time reigning champions saw prized center Tibor Pleiß go down with a knee injury and are waiting to learn the extent of the injury. PJ Tucker […]
s.Oliver Baskets power forward Maximilian Kleber has been in the headlines of late for putting his name into the 2012 NBA Draft as an early entry. That’s reason enough for heinnews’ David Hein to travel to Würzburg to catch the team’s first round playoff game against Alba Berlin. Kleber only […]
The Regensburg Baskets learned plenty during their promotion season in the 2nd Regionalliga SouthEast. They were also forced however to learn through plenty of mistakes while figuring out how to build up a successful club. But after securing a second season in Germany’s fifth division, Baskets general manager Alexander Ziegler […]
Würzburg, Germany (heinnews) – The 1992 German basketball class features loads of talented players well known throughout Europe. But ask international scouts about perhaps the country’s top talent and there are more than a few raised eyebrows. “Never seen him play or heard much about him. Should I have?” asked […]
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