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In the footsteps of Dirk Nowitzki: young stars Dennis Schröder and Tibor Pleiss.

01.10.2015

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.”

www.tiborpleiss.com