German hopefuls
In the footsteps of Dirk Nowitzki: young stars Dennis Schröder and Tibor Pleiss.
The second season brought him the breakthrough: Dennis Schröder is starting his third NBA season for the Atlanta Hawks in October 2015 – and he’s already a shooting star at the tender age of 22! At the NBA All Star Weekend in the spring, Schröder and other international talents beat the US team in the Rising Stars Challenge. Schröder has the potential to become a glittering brand name in his sport. He has invented the Twitter hashtag #TheGoldenPatch for his hairstyle, and his nickname The Umlaut (after the German letter “ö” in his surname) is one of the most unusual in the NBA. Many people see him as the successor to superstar Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks. Less well known, but also very talent-ed, is 25-year-old Tibor Pleiss, who was transferred from Barcelona to the Utah Jazz for the new NBA season. Pleiss, who like Schröder and Nowitzki plays for Germany, stresses: “I couldn’t be more motivated to repay the trust the Jazz have shown in me.”
