Robert Albert Kurland was a 7 feet (2.1 m) American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies basketball team. He led the U.S. basketball team to gold medals in two Summer Olympics, and led his AAU team to three national titles. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Mark Mancari is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. Mancari was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the seventh round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), 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.
The JobStairs GIESSEN 46ers is a professional basketball club based in Gießen, Germany, that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Sporthalle Gießen-Ost, with a capacity of 4,003 people.
Alexey Viktorovich Shved is a Russian professional basketball player for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League. Standing at 1.98 m, he plays at the shooting guard position.
Misan Haldin is a German former basketball player. He played for clubs in Germany, Greece and Italy.
Tony DiLeo is a former American basketball executive and former coach. He served as the 21st head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA, taking over the position mid-season on December 13, 2008 after then-head coach Maurice Cheeks was fired after starting the season with a 9–14 record. The team went 32–27 under DiLeo's leadership, and lost their Eastern Conference quarterfinals series to the Orlando Magic. At the end of the season, DiLeo withdrew his name from consideration to return as head coach, opting instead to return to the Sixers' front office as senior vice president and assistant general manager. He was promoted to general manager in 2012, but was subsequently removed at the end of the season.
Denis Wucherer is a German professional basketball coach and former player. He is 1.96 m tall and played shooting guard.
Henning Harnisch is a retired German professional basketball player. At a height of 2.03 m tall, he played at the small forward and power forward positions. He currently serves as Vice president for the German Basketball Bundesliga team Alba Berlin, and is in charge of Alba's youth program. In addition to that, he is the China ambassador for Alba Berlin.
Klaus Perwas is a German former basketball player and assistant coach.
John Bryant is an American professional basketball player for Mitteldeutscher BC of the Basketball Bundesliga. Bryant was the 2009 West Coast Conference player of the year and an All-American as a senior at Santa Clara University.
Alejandro "Álex" Abrines Redondo is a Spanish professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Standing at 6 ft 6 in, he plays the shooting guard and small forward positions.
Furkan Korkmaz is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born and raised in Istanbul, and was selected 26th in the 2016 NBA draft. Korkmaz is 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) tall and plays the shooting guard and small forward positions.
Andreas Obst is a German professional basketball player for Bayern Munich of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague.
Thomas Ryan Scrubb is a Canadian professional basketball player for Monbus Obradoiro of the Liga ACB.
Anthony "T. J." DiLeo is a retired American-German professional basketball player who played professionally for the Giessen 46ers and the Telekom Baskets Bonn of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). He retired from playing in 2021 and joined the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers as a player development coach heading into the 2021–22 season.
Yorman Polas Bartolo is a Cuban-German professional basketball player for Riesen Ludwigsburg of the Basketball Bundesliga.
Nathan Adam Sobey is an Australian professional basketball player for the Brisbane Bullets of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the University of Wyoming's Cowboys. He was a member of the Australian Boomers team that won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Michael Jackel is a Canadian–German retired professional basketball player. A 6’7' tall small forward, he won the EuroBasket 1993 with the senior German men's national team, and he was the first player to score more than 10,000 points in Germany's top-tier level Basketball Bundesliga.
Abodunrin Gabriel Olaseni is a British professional basketball player for Darüşşafaka of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He also plays for the Great Britain men's national basketball team.
