Casey Gardner Jacobsen is an American retired professional basketball player who played four seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also had an extensive European basketball career, mostly while playing with Brose Baskets Bamberg, in Germany. With Brose, he won the Bundesliga championship in 2007 and 2010, while also receiving the German League Finals MVP award. He won Bundesliga championships in 2011, 2012, and 2013. He also won the German Cup with Bamberg, in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and the German Supercup four times. Following his retirement in 2014, Brose Baskets retired his jersey number 23.
Boštjan "Boki" Nachbar is a Slovenian former professional basketball player. A 2.06 m forward, he spent most of his career between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the EuroLeague. Nachbar helped lead the Slovenian national basketball team to a fourth place at EuroBasket 2009.
Sharrod Victor Ford is an American former professional basketball player. He played briefly in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as in a variety of top leagues around the world.
Bamberg Baskets is a German professional basketball team from Bamberg, Franconia/North Bavaria. The club has won the German Championship title nine times and the German Cup six times. The club currently plays in the German top tier Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup. The license holder of the club is Bamberger Basketball GmbH.
The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: Federal Basketball League), for sponsorship reasons named easyCredit BBL, is the highest level league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage. At the end of the league stage, the top eight teams qualify for the playoff stage, and the teams positioned in the 17th and 18th places are relegated to a lower-tier league. The playoffs are played in a "Best of five" format. The winning team of the final round are crowned the German Champions of that season.
Baskets Oldenburg, for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional basketball club that is based in the city of Oldenburg, Germany. The club plays in the Bundesliga. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an electric utility company. The club's home arena is the Große EWE Arena.
Bryce Taylor is an American-German professional former basketball player currently working as an assistant coach for the Indiana Mad Ants of the NBA G League. He played college basketball at University of Oregon. In April 2018, he was granted German citizenship.
Kristaps Valters is a Latvian former professional basketball player. After retiring he became a coach, and is currently working as a head coach for Valmiera/ORDO.
Philipp Schwethelm is a retired German professional basketball player. He competed with the German national basketball team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Fabien Causeur is a French professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), he plays at the shooting guard position. He was the 2018 French player of the year.
Jānis Strēlnieks is a Latvian professional basketball player for Obradoiro CAB of the Liga ACB. He also represents the senior Latvia national team. Standing at 1.91 m tall, he mainly plays at the shooting guard position.
Leon Radošević is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Dubai BC of the ABA League. He holds German citizenship since 2017.
Owen James Klassen is a Canadian professional basketball player for Würzburg Baskets of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). He played university basketball at Acadia University and is a current member of the Canadian national basketball team.
Vladimir Mihailović, is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for Zadar of the Croatian League and the ABA League. Standing at 1.95 m, he plays as a guard.
The 2015 BBL-Pokal was the 48th season of the German Basketball Cup. The Final Four was held in Oldenburg, which gained EWE Baskets Oldenburg automatic qualification. The other six participating teams were selected through the standings in the 2014–15 Basketball Bundesliga.
The 2016–17 Basketball Bundesliga was the 51st season of the Basketball Bundesliga, the top-tier level of professional club basketball in Germany. The season started on 23 September 2016 and ended on 11 June 2017. The name of the league was changed to easyCredit BBL, after the league signed a sponsor deal until 2021 with easyCredit.
Dominic Lockhart is a German professional basketball player who last played for Niners Chemnitz of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).
Kenneth Ogbe is a German professional basketball player for Hamburg Towers of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).
Bennet Hundt is a German professional basketball player for USC Heidelberg of the Basketball Bundesliga. He has represented Germany in several youth international tournaments.
Pedro Calles is a Spanish basketball coach. He mostly recently served as head coach of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg. Born in Córdoba, he has coached in both Spain and Germany since 2010.
