Two-time reigning German champions Brose Baskets Bamberg once again defended their home court with a strong 89-77 victory over Bayern Munich in an emotion-packed BBL contest which had the feeling of a playoff game. PJ Tucker tallied 23 points to lead the German BBL league leaders while Casey Jacobsen scored […]
Johannes Wießnet collected 26 points including a game-deciding block with 18 seconds to lead Regensburg Baskets to a 79-74 upset of Nürnberger BC II at home. Wießnet blocked Josip Prgic’s shot with his team ahead 78-74 and then Peter Sohn made one oft wo free throws with 10 seconds to […]
Croatian club KK Zagreb denied speculation that they had rejected Derrick Rose saying in fact that they wanted to sign the Chicago Bulls star for 20 games during the NBA lockout. The Euroleague club’s media director Damir Klekar blamed the false reports on a “clumsy” translating of an interview with […]
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 […]
heinnews’s David Hein met up with talented Serbian point guard Nenad Miljenovic at the FIBA Europe U18 All-Star Game at the EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania. They talked about winning the U18 European silver medal and playing at the U18 All-Star Game; his four-year contract with Partizan and his expectations there; […]
Euroleague president and CEO Jordi Bertomeu on October 18 praised the German BBL basketball league as an example in Europe for economic discipline and political framework to stabilize clubs’ budgets. Bertomeu also talked about Germany’s strong marketing and commercial work, mentioning it would be “great” to see three or four […]
For those not on twitter wanting to know a bit about how Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki is spending his time with the NBA locked out, here is a collection of some of his tweets on @swish41. The NBA champion took some time on Wednesday to answer his followers’ questions. […]
Welcome to the first edition of the heinnews podcast, where we bring you the world of international of sports. In this podcast we have an interview with Lithuanian international Rimantas Kaukenas in the aftermath of EuroBasket 2011. We discussed with him Lithuania’s somewhat showing at the tournament at home, though […]
German basketball junkies will have an extra avenue to get the kick of the hardwood as the documentary film “Phoenix in der Asche” will enter German theaters starting on November 10, 2011. The film – titled “No Ashes – No Phoenix” in English and made by Jens Pfeifer – brings […]
The German basketball Bundesliga is becoming more and more German and younger and younger as BBL officials announced that 56.4 percent of the players in the league have a German passport. And of those players, more than three-quarters of them are 24 years or younger. Of the 284 players on […]
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