Kai Nürnberger

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Basketball player
Kai Nürnberger
Player information
Full name Kai Joachim Nürnberger
birthday June 7, 1966
place of birth Wolfenbüttel , Germany
size 184 cm
position Point guard
college Southern Illinois
Clubs as active
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1985-1999 Germany 136 games
1 As of April 9, 2008
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Kai Joachim Nürnberger (born June 7, 1966 in Wolfenbüttel ) is a former German national basketball player . The Point Guard's greatest success was winning the European Championship in 1993.

Player career

youth

Kai Nürnberger started playing basketball at the age of six. His mother was a basketball player and his father, Klaus Nürnberger, was a trainer in Wolfenbüttel. In 1984, at the age of 17, he went to the United States to complete his training as a basketball player at Southern Illinois University in the NCAA college league .

societies

After returning from the USA, he played in the Bundesliga from 1989, first with Galatasaray Cologne , then with Steiner Bayreuth . In 1991 he moved to TTL universa Bamberg for eight seasons .

From 1999 he was a high performer at the newly founded Skyliners in Frankfurt . Until 2003, his playing time continued to decrease, until the younger Pascal Roller was finally given preference as playmaker.

The following season he played in the 2nd Bundesliga South at TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach , where he finally resigned because he no longer met his own standards.

Nürnberger's strengths on the field included preparing his teammates to finish the basket, having a good overview of the game, changing pace and having the courage to seize the action at crucial moments and thus score important points. He recorded a total of 5247 points in the Bundesliga, which was more at the end of his career than any other German playmaker in the league had previously achieved.

National team

Nürnberger played in the German national team for 14 years. His first game was on May 19, 1985 in Stuttgart against Italy, his last on July 3, 1999 at the European Championships in Paris against Turkey . He played a total of 136 international matches for Germany and scored 909 points. In the closing stages of the 1993 European Championship final against Russia, he played a key role in the Germans winning gold by scoring five points in the last three minutes and thus equalizing his team behind. Six seconds before the end he put Christian Welp under the basket with a pass , who dunked after Nürnberger's pass, was fouled and then converted the profitable free throw.

In 1989 he won bronze at the Universiade  in Duisburg with the German student selection.

Achievements / Awards

After the basketball career

Following his retirement from professional basketball in 2004, Nürnberger moved with his family to the United States, the home of his wife Michelle, and worked in the state of Illinois for a supplier to the automotive industry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "These are our 12 giants", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.
  2. ^ Welt Online, Peter Ehrenberg Comeback instead of summer vacation on June 5, 1999
  3. ↑ a b Sebastian Gehrmann: Golden boys. The secret hero . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 146 .
  4. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
  5. ↑ Re-live: The final of the European Basketball Championship 1993 between Germany and Russia. March 27, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Büker: Once upon a time ... bronze 25 years ago . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB Journal . No. 41 , October 2014, p. 36, 37 .
  7. ↑ Christoph Büker: What does ... Kai Nürnberger actually do. In: DBB-Journal, Edition 06, December 2008, pp. 40–41. German Basketball Association, accessed on January 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Nürnberger, Kai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nürnberger, Kai Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel , Germany