A tennis court in Tegernheim, Germany is hardly where one would expect to find one of Europe’s top baseball talents. But that is where Max Kepler can be found on a daily basis, working on his game at a tennis club that his former baseball team turned into two batting […]
Brose Baskets Bamberg center Tibor Pleiss called the hype surrounding NBA a “curse” and said he’s not interested in critics just looking at his statistics. The Oklahoma City Thunder No. 31 draft pick from 2010 has started to stay up into the night to watch what he hopes are his […]
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 […]
heinnews’s David Hein hit the road again and took in a handball match with two-time EHF Champions League champions THW Kiel from Germany. Afterwards, Hein caught up with Kiel’s superstar goalkeeper and 2008 world handball player of the year Thierry Omeyer and talked about trying to get back to the […]
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. […]
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