Enes Kanter did not play a competitive game for two years. And it has cost the 19-year-old Turkish power forward quite a bit in his development. Members of the Turkish coaching staff have even said the Utah Jazz draft pick is not ready to play in the NBA. In April […]
Chris Kaman is playing for the German national team for the second summer in his career at the 2011 EuroBasket, but the Los Angeles Clippers center is still getting used to the more physical and team-orientated European game and fans being closer and more involved in the action. “It’s a […]
While looking for information for an interview with Enes Kanter heinnews’s David Hein ran across the fact that the young Turkish star has a younger brother, Kerem, playing high school basketball in the United States. But there wasn’t that much other information on Arlington County Day high junior in […]
There were not a lot of expectations for Belgium going into the Beko Supercup in Bamberg, Germany. But Eddy Casteels’s team performed strongly despite losing three games. heinnews’s David Hein caught up with the Belgian coach to discuss his team’s showing in Bamberg, the state of his team ahead of […]
Text by Karolis Jankus, Photos by Vytautas Mikaitis “I love her, the arena of dreams” – emotionally proclaimed former Lithuanian great and 1972 Olympic champion Modestas Paulauskas about the new Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas. This statement illustrated the mood of some 15,000 fans on hand for the unveiling of the […]
The German football world has started the 2011-12 season with a fever. And its name sounds very Brazilian-like – “Götzinho”. Borussia Dortmund attacking midfielder Mario Götze may be just 19 years old, but he has already earned the Brazilian-sounding nickname in a country that rarely compares its own to South […]
FIBA Europe asked heinnews’s David Hein for his input about the top players at the recent U18 European Championship regarding invitation for the U18 All-Star Game at the 2011 EuroBasket in Lithuania. All told, FIBA Europe would be making 36 invitations including one from each of the Division A teams, […]
Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany and now even China? The offers for the services of Dirk Nowitzki are adding up by the day. But the German superstar has said he will not decide on his club future until after the 2011 EuroBasket. “I’m going to play the Euros and then […]
Brose Baskets Bamberg and Brian Roberts will remain together after all as the two-time defending German BBL league and Cup champions re-signed the American point guard to help replace injured playmaker John Goldsberry. Roberts played a huge role in Bamberg repeating both their crowns last season and was rumored to […]
heinnews’s David Hein was at the U18 European Championship and met up with Douglas Leichner, associate men’s basketball head coach at the University of Maine. They discussed the level of the U18 tournaments and players in Europe; European players compared to their U.S. counterparts; players from Europe deciding on going […]
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