Ernest Butler

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Ernest "Ernie" Butler (* 1934 in Connersville ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

The butler from the US state of Indiana studied at Ball State University and the University of Southern California and worked as a teacher from 1956. As a soldier he was stationed in Nuremberg for almost a year . In 1962 he returned to Germany and from then on taught at an American school in Giessen . Butler, who spoke no German at the time and was initially considering a return to the USA, played basketball with MTV 1846 Giessen. Compared to basketball in his home country, he found big differences on MTV, Butler later said: “In Indiana, basketball was like a religion. We trained every day. And MTV only twice a week! ”In the 1964/65 season he won the German championship with Mittelhessen at the side of players like Holger Geschwindner and Klaus Urmitzer , with Butler winning the decisive basket from twelve meters away in the final against VfL Osnabrück scored. A close friendship developed between Butler and Geschwindner. The two only played together in Gießen for a year, but he had the impression that he had played with Geschwindner since his youth because they understood each other on the field without words, said Butler. In 1965 Butler moved to FC Bayern Munich . He later worked as a basketball trainer in Munich, among other things he was in charge of USC Munich in the 1970s, with which he also competed in the European Cup. Geschwindner was one of his players at USC.

Looking back, the Gießen author Wolfgang Lehmann called it a "real stroke of luck for the Gießen basketball team". Butler also made a name for himself as a saxophonist and coined the phrase “basketball is jazz”. Butler stayed several times at youth basketball training camps organized by Holger Geschwindner and, according to Geschwindner, showed the players that every basketball movement “can also be performed rhythmically”. Butler played melodies on the saxophone, and the youngsters were asked to make free basketball moves. Butler, who taught Dirk Nowitzki the beginnings of playing the saxophone, described the connection between music and basketball with the words: “The melody is part of your flesh and blood. You learn faster. "

Private life

His daughter Naima became known as a singer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ t4x | Speakers. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e About Ernie - The Good Sound Basketball Meets Jazz. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Pletzinger: The book Holger . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 25 .
  4. ↑ a b c GIESSEN 46ers | Ernie Butler - the extraordinary - GIESSEN 46ers. Retrieved September 10, 2018 .
  5. ^ Season 1965/1966 - USC Heidelberg . In: USC Heidelberg . ( usc-hd.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
  6. ^ Pearl basket. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ www.wetterauer-zeitung.de - Your newspaper for Wetterau and the surrounding area: Jazz in a stylish ambience | Wetterauer newspaper. Retrieved September 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Review - "The Perfect Throw" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Holger Geschwindner: Ernie Buter, the legend . In: Nowitzki. The story . Murmann, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-212-2 , pp. 57, 58 .
  10. ↑ Reinhard Palmer: Brooklyn in pocket size . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 22, 2011, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed September 10, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Naima Butler - soulful voice from Munich has the boys firmly under control | SUNSHINE SWINGERS . In: SUNSHINE SWINGERS . ( sunshineswingers.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Butler, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butler, Ernie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Connersville