Leon Baeck

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Leon Baeck (born October 30, 1996 ) is a former German basketball player . The 1.87 meter tall point guard was in the squad of second division club Rhein Stars Cologne . He is the son of the 1993 European Champion, Stephan Baeck .

Player career

Baeck's basketball club career began at the age of eight. In 2010 he became German champion in the U14 age group with SG Köln and later played for the Cologne 99ers in the youth basketball league and, from 2012, in the highest German youth class, the youth basketball league .

With the men's team of RheinStars Köln , founded in 2013 , Baeck rose to the 1st regional league in 2014 and won the championship there in the first year. The RheinStars skipped the 2nd Bundesliga ProB and started in 2015/16 thanks to a wildcard in the second division, the ProA . There, Baeck secured an average playing time of almost 13 minutes per mission (25 games) in his first year and scored an average of 3.2 points. Back was repeatedly plagued by injuries, he last played for Cologne in 2018.

National team

In the summer of 2016, Baeck reached the semi-finals of the European Championships in Finland with the German U20 national team.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Rheinstars Cologne: Stephan & Leon Baeck dribble through the interview. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
  2. Leon Baeck emerges from the shadows - Köln.Sport - Köln.Sport. In: www.koelnsport.de. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
  3. ^ Honorary list German youth champions U14 / U15. (No longer available online.) German Basketball Association, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.basketball-bund.de
  4. U18 national players Tim van der Velde and Leon Baeck stay in Cologne. (No longer available online.) In: RheinStars Cologne Basketball. June 26, 2014, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinstars-koeln.de
  5. ^ Teams of the JBBL Group West. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbbl-basketball.de
  6. ^ Teams of the NBBL Group Southwest. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 12, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbbl-basketball.de
  7. Wildcard for Cologne basketball players: Rheinstars go straight to the second division. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
  8. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Player. In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
  9. Jens Koralewski: " Looking forward to the next season in Cologne" - Leon Baeck also stays. June 29, 2018, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  10. Player - BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved on July 29, 2020 (German).
  11. Leon BAECK at the Player of the FIBA U20 European Championship Division A 2016 - FIBA.com. In: FIBA.com. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .