Franz Wagner receives loud cheers from the local crowd in Berlin, Germany.
Wow born in Berlin too, so cool. Probably too crazy for him to even have dreamt this growing up, playing an NBA game in his hometown
We love Franz here in Germany
Can I ask why are you supporting the lakers ?
I mean it’s the Lakers. You could be on Mars and find a martian Lakers fan
Fair
Das cool
I know the NBA wants to make a league in Europe. I wonder if the money becomes good enough, a lot of the international players currently in the NBA would rather play in the Europe league instead. Can you imagine Jokic, and Luka playing over there instead?
Current owners would never let that happen. They are the NBA.
There’s a reason why the league has expanded several times and is looking to expand again including to Canada. Owners benefit from a profit sharing model and most of the profit they generate comes from TV and network deals. Expanding their reach and fanbase to an entire continent makes the whole product more profitable
Having NBA like league is close to impossible in Europe, as it would need to kill domestic leagues + Euroleague to grow, which will never happen. It can expand in Canada as its same time-zone, NBA itself cannot expand into Europe purely because of logistics, so it would have to be NBA-lite league, which nobody would care about
It’s planned for 2027 no?
The main issue would be flight logistics especially for west teams like Lakers and such. But I think thye will make the league local to EU.
no i dont think basketball is big enough here
Wohlverdiente Heimkehr.
It’s great he was able to come back for this game
Would have been cool if they did the intros in German lol
So cool. They really gotta do games in home cities for all the euro stars
bro really said f this injury i’m playing at home
How do you not also start Mo in this situation?
Meanwhile they booed Moritz. I still don’t get this eastern/western Germany thing.
That’s not true. The only thing that was booed was the US anthem, Mo is actually loved by everyone because off his loose Beelin mouth
Oh rly. I thought it was because Franz is from the eastern bloc and Mo is from the west.
What are you even talking about? They are brothers who were born in the same city, probably in the same hospital during a time were west and east didn’t even exist anymore. You must be trolling
I know they are brothers. My German friend told me that’s how Germans culturally treat twins. They birth them at different sides of Germany and separate them to ensure each twin encapsulates the identity of eastern/western Germany. Is this not true?
No, your german friend is either an idiot or was tripping. Noone in Berlin is doing this at all.
He’s from Frankfurt. Maybe they do that on the western bloc.
I am from the very far west and no, they don’t do this either
Are you a twin though
Thats the most absurd thing I have ever heard as a German twin.
Apart from what that would induce in terms of stress for the mother, do you think they do a quick drive after the first twin is born and make sure to birth the second on a different side?
Your friend absolutely trolled you but that should also just be common sense.
I think you are just bitter because you haven’t absorbed proper identity as you were never enrolled in this program.
Your friend was messing with you lol
No way. He would never.