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 […]
heinnews’s David Hein had the chance for a long interview with CSKA Moscow star and former Utah Jazz All-Star Andrei Kirilenko. The two talked about a large array of subjects. We split the interview into two parts. In the first half Hein and Kirilenko look at growing up with soccer […]
With the Euroleague Commercial Assets Board agreeing to institute Financial Fair Play into its league in the near future, heinnews’s David Hein sought out German Beko BBL league CEO Jan Pommer, who sits on the Euroleague board. The two discussed what has been agreed upon thus far; a percentage scale […]
A Euroleague commission looking to protect the integrity and operations of Europe’s top basketball club competition recommended measures designed to create more economic fair play, a break-even rule, minimum budgets and what in essence is a percentage salary cap. The intention of the Euroleague Commercial Assets Board is to increase […]
heinnews’s David Hein went to see Brose Baskets Bamberg blast TBB Trier in the German Beko BBL and ran into Spaniard Antonio Marceiras, the head European scout for the Los Angeles Lakers since mid-December 2011. They discussed his good friend Ettore Messina’s influence in him getting the Lakers position; […]
Going from a farm in western Iowa to the buzz of a metropolis like Athens to waiting for sheep to cross a road in Turkey to winning titles in Croatia to a legal battle over salary in Greece to one of the most promising basketball projects in European basketball history. […]
heinnews’s David Hein met up with Montenegro and EWE Baskets Oldenburg guard Sead Sehovic. They discussed Oldenburg’s up and down season to date; the 22-year-old’s adaptation since leaving Montenegro; the Montenegro national team; and Montenegro’s NBA centers Nikola Pekovic and Nikola Vucevic. heinnews: Oldenburg have been struggling a bit in […]
The German Beko BBL league is moving even quicker than expected towards its long-term goal of becoming the top domestic league in Europe by 2020 with a continued increase in attendance, at least an 11 percent increase in total club budgets within the first half of this season, more general […]
The name Svetislav Pesic is anything but an unknown for German basketball fans the Serbian coaching legend was responsible for two of the biggest successes in German basketball history. And now the 62-year-old is being heavily rumored as new head coach of the German national team. Pesic and the German […]
heinnews’s David Hein met up with 17-year-old Denmark prospect Rasmus Larsen at the FIBA Europe U18 All-Star Game at the EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania. They talked about what it’s like to play in front of 10,000 Lithuanians; his helping Denmark to the silver medal at the U18 European Championship Division […]
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