About

Hi,

my name is Manuel und I’ve been around the german basketball scene for more than twenty-five years now. For some years I was a writer for Eurobasket.com (2007-2011), and was co-hosting the only weekly german basketball radio show back in 2009/2010.

Manuel Schust broadcasting a game in Gießen

There are many decent blogs and fan forums that cover german basketball very well. Without a doubt schoenen-dunk.de is the number one fan forum in Germany offering very good insight of what is going on in german basketball. There are a couple of nice Blogs like gruebelei.de. And for sure Basketball.de is a helpful source.

But unfortunatly all of those pages are in german!

So if you can’t read and understand german there are now and then some good articles on several pages, and the german section of Eurobasket can keep you updated, but there clearly is a lack for english pages that cover german Basketball a little more detailled.

When I talk to import players I often wonder how uninformed they are about what’s going on in the domestic german leagues. E.g. the foreigner rule in germany’s second division that says that two domestic player need to be on the court at any time was something most of the guys I talked to never heard about.

So I decided to start a blog that tries to fill this gap and provide some insight views on german basketball for all who are interested, but can’t read german.

When I started this site back in 2009 , I did not expect so many positive reactions by readers, players, agents and even teams. Thank you again for the kind words!

But I had to experience that it would become very difficult “to keep up the good work” if I was going on on my own. So I decided to not let this become a one-person project.

I have stepped down from my duties and my colleague Miles Schmidt-Scheuber now handles the site.

Miles Schmidt-Scheuber is a German-American that was born in Lynn(near Boston), USA. He was the play by play announcer for THE Frankfurt SKYLINERS in the German (BBL) Basketball league from 2004-2014 and continues to do play by play for the Skyliner organization now in his 20^th season doing Pro A, Pro B and NBBL. He had the first ever weekly basketball program on German radio Tippoff Basketball bundesliga magazine on mondays from 19:00-21:00 which ran from 2006-2013. Basketball fans got all the newest infos about the game reports, pre game reports and in depth interviews with the players. Since 2008 he is an author for www.eurobasket.com. Click to germany page and since 2009 writes for www.germanhoops.wordpress.com  His announcing highlights include an ULEB cup game in 2005 live from Rome, Italy, Frankfurt Skyliners vs Lottomatica Rome, Frankfurt-Alba Berlin live from Berlin, the 2006,2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 BBL Allstar games, The BBL 2005 cup final Bonn-Rhein Energie Cologne, 2008 Cup final Artland Dragons-ENBW Ludwigsburg Live from Hamburg, 2010 cup final Bamberg-Frankfurt and 2011 cup final Bamberg-Braunschweig, the complete 2005 BBL finals between Frankfurt-Bamberg, 2012 Alba Berlin-s.Oliver Baskets Wurzburg playoff series game 2 and 4 and a International game Germany(With Dirk Nowitski) vs Canada live from Nurnberg, Germany vs Croatia 2009, Frankfurt vs Maccabi Tel Aiv. NBBL games of Eintracht Frankfurt, 8 Eurochallenge gams of the Fraport Skyliners in the season 2014-2015 in english and 7 Fiba Europe Cup games in the 2015-2016 season in english. Did play by play of all games at the 2017, 2018, 2019 2022, 2023 JBBL(U-16) and NBBL (U-19) German championships Final 4 tournaments. Called 2019 German U-14 title game between Fraport Skyliners-TS Jahn Munich, 2018 Eurobasket.com lifetime achievement award, broadcast 3 Pro B games on the same day in 2 different places with Fraport Skyliners Juniors-Orange Academy in Frankfurt and Dragons Rhondorf-RheinStars Koln from Rhondorf(near Bonn) December 22nd, 2018 and NBBL game Eintracht Frankfurt-BG Goettingen and Dragons Rhondorf-Basketball Lowen on January 12, 2019 Fraport Skyliners Juniors-Ehingen and Dragons Rhondorf-Itzehoe December 17^th, 2022.He also called the first ever game of the Hamburg Towers. He has broadcast 700 plus basketball games and had 212 basketball episodes of the first ever weekly basketball radio program in Germany. He also has interviewed 1,800 plus players.

Miles Schmidt-Scheuber doing the play-by-play commentary in Ludwigsburg

So, I hope you will like and appreciate our site!

Manuel Schust