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 […]
As if Turkey were not good enough already in producing top level talent, now the Turkish Basketball Federation is planning a new development program on par with the wildly-successful INSEP institution and starting possibly as early as the 2012-13 season. “We are doing something like INSEP from France,” Turkey basketball’s […]
When Tofas Bursa tip off their Turkish season in less than two weeks one of the most-watched players will be point guard Kenan Sipahi. “He’s a leader. He only needs to work on his body. He’s too skinny. Once he gets some muscles he will be a great player,” said […]
The Regensburg Baskets were given a rude welcome to the 2nd Regional League Southeast with a 100-52 defeat at top promotion candidates TG Würzburg in Regensburg’s first game of the season. Markus Höß’s young Regensburg team, which was promoted from the Oberliga to the fifth division in Germany, struggled […]
Bayern Munich player personnel director Marko Pesic said it is very unlikely that German national team center Chris Kaman will come to the German BBL club and that he is still considering an offer from Lithuanian side Zalgiris Kaunas. “My information says that he has an offer from Zalgiris […]
Brose Baskets Bamberg begin their quest to three-peat as German BBL league and Cup champions with plenty of challenges in what many Bundesliga officials and club leaders are coining as the “best BBL season ever”. Bamberg coach Chris Fleming and general manager Wolfgang Heyder have reloaded a team that dominated […]
The 2011-12 German BBL season is about to tip off and heinnews figured it was exactly the time to talk to league CEO Jan Pommer about the expectations of the season; Bayern Munich economic impact on the league; the possibility of an average attendance of 5,000; why Bayern’s wild card […]
Two-time defending BBL league and German Cup champions Bamberg won the first crown of the 2011-12 season by beating Braunschweig for the Champions Cup. heinnews’s David Hein was at the game and chatted after the game with Bamberg big man Marcus Slaughter. They talked about how he has been received […]
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