Dennis Schröder

Dennis Schroeder ( born September 15, 1993, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony ) is a German professional basketball player. He is regarded as one of the largest German talents on the position of the " playmaker ". On July 10, 2013, he signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA after being drafted in 2013 by the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA Draft 2013. The son of a Gambian mother and a German father played from 2011 to 2013 for the Erstligamannschaft New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig and previously ran the youth program of Brunswick.

BBL

Schroeder began eleven years in terms of performance to play basketball when he was discovered by the professional basketball coach Liviu Calin on a free place at the Brunswick Prince Park and invited to a basketball practice. Over the years, he could improve his basket balle skills further and so eventually came alongside the boys team in the junior basketball league also early in the first division reserve team SUM Baskets Braunschweig in the third-class ProB Season North used. From the season 2011/2012 he was inducted into the first division squad of Phantoms Braunschweig and received so by means of a " double license" his first minutes of play in the National Basketball League. While he was rather irregular and few operating times per game received in its first season, took place in the National Basketball League in 2012/13 his breakthrough in Braunschweig and he stood in any game usually 20 minutes or longer on the field.

Schroeder was also in the squad for the U20 national team, in the European Championship finals of the juniors in 2012 in Slovenia. With the team he won the fifth place. Beginning of 2013 he was invited to the annual " Nike Hoop Summit", a prestigious invitation competition between a selection of the supposedly best junior players in the United States and an age-matched selection from the "rest of the world "; Schröder received from his club the release of this game, participate, although Braunschweig was threatened descent at the time of the tournament. Schröder was in this game with 18 points the second best points scorer of his team. He also distributed 6 templates and took two rebounds. After this performance, he was as a future NBA talent, for the first draft round, traded.

Due to his performances in the 2012/13 season, he was awarded by a panel of experts on 12 April 2013 as the Most Improved Player and Best German youth players under 24 years of basketball league in the current season. He also became the youngest Allstar Bundesliga history. His contract with Brunswick was originally until 2014, however, contained an opt-out clause in the event of a change to an NBA team.

NBA

On April 20, 2013, Dennis Schroeder reported on for the NBA Draft 2013. On June 28, 2013, was taken with the 17th pick by the Atlanta Hawks.

On July 10, 2013, he signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks, his contract with Brunswick was dissolved after negotiations with the Hawks. It is intended to be paid a fee of $ 550,000 to Brunswick. However, this amount of money from Braunschweig was not confirmed in this form. On September 24, 2013, a sum of money in the amount of € 370,000 was named after deducting the transfer charges from the chairman of the board of the phantom.

On 4 December 2013, the Atlanta Hawks announced that Schröder, will contest in by mutual agreement, a few games for the NBA Development League team of the Bakersfield Jam, there to play matches and it thus in the process of adjusting to his new place of meet. After six games in the D -League Schroeder finally returned to the team the Hawks for which he came at 118:85 victory over the Utah Jazz back into use. As a result, he came to another example inserts at 112:97 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. In the narrow defeat against Oklahoma, he scored 10 points and did not lose the ball.