Maximilian Kleber

Maximilian Kleber
Maxi Glue (2019)
Player information
birthday	29th January 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Wurzburg , Germany
size	208 cm
position	Power forward
NBA draft	undrafted ( 2014 )
Club information
society	Dallas Mavericks
league	NBA
Jersey number	42
Clubs as active
2009–2014 see Oliver Baskets 2014–2015 Obradoiro CAB 2015–2017 FC Bayern Munich Since 2017 Dallas Mavericks 0
National team 1
Since 02014	Germany	26 games
1 As at: 01.09.2018

Maximilian "Maxi" Kleber (born January 29, 1992 in Würzburg ) is a professional German basketball player who has been playing for the Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 2017 .

Career

society

Kleber learned the game in his youth at TG Veitshöchheim; later he also ran for SC Heuchelhof and TG Würzburg on the field. From 2009 to 2014 he played for his home club s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg, with whom he marched from the first regional league to the basketball Bundesliga . He made his debut in Germany's top division in the 2011/12 season. Kleber initially signed up for the 2012 NBA draft , although he was not yet one of those players who are "automatically" eligible for the selection process due to their age. However, he later withdrew the registration and instead took part in the Adidas Euro Camp in Treviso, Italy.

In 2014, the year of his national team debut, Kleber was not selected as one of five registered German players in the 2014 NBA draft . After Würzburg's relegation in the same year, Kleber moved to Obradoiro CAB in Spain without a contract . There he reached in 33 games with an average playing time of 25:28 minutes on average 11.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 0.8 basket assists and a ball win. After only one year in Spain, Kleber moved back to the German Bundesliga and signed a two-year contract with Bayern Munich . In the 2015/16 season he was used by Bayern in 24 Bundesliga games and scored an average of eight points and 4.9 rebounds per encounter. In his second Munich season (2016/17), Kleber was in the starting line-up in all of his 37 Bundesliga appearances, achieved an average of 9.0 points per game and was third-best FCB player in this regard with 38 three-point throws.

In the summer of 2017, Kleber switched to the North American basketball league NBA to the Dallas Mavericks , where he went on basket hunt together with Dirk Nowitzki , who was also from Würzburg (Nowitzki ended his career in 2019). Kleber agreed with the Texans in the summer of 2019 to extend the cooperation after his contract had expired.

National team

Maxi Glue (2014)

In summer 2014 Maximilian Kleber made his debut with the men's national team in the European Championship qualification. Kleber was able to convince as a top performer: In five European Championship qualifying games he scored an average of 11.8 points and 6.8 rebounds in an average of 22 minutes of playing time. At the 2019 World Cup, Kleber was the third best scorer of the German team with 11.2 points per match.

Private

In 2011 he graduated from the Deutschhaus-Gymnasium in Würzburg .

Awards

• Participants in the BBL All-Star Game : 2014
• 2nd place in the election for the most improved player of the 2013/2014 BBL season
• 3rd place in the election for the best young German player in 2014
• 1st place in the election for the most effective national player in 2016/2017

See also

• List of NBA players from German-speaking nations

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Maximilian Kleber - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Maxi Kleber on: NBA website; New York, NY, 2018. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
• Maxi Glue on: Basketball Reference — Website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved December 12, 2018 (in English).
• Maxi Kleber on: RealGM website; 2018. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
• Maxi glue on: Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto — website; Barcelona, ​​2001-2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018 (in Spanish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International match statistics
2. ↑ https://www.mainpost.de/sport/wuerzburg/Basketball-Maximilian-Kleber-wechselelt-nach-Spanien;art786,8211903
3. ↑ http://www.soliver-wuerzburg.de/news/newsdetails/jahr/2012/mai/meldung/maxi-kle-mütung-sich-zum-nba-draft/?tx_ttnews%5Bday%5D=08&cHash=e677806ca83266d34561381a40917d62
4. ↑ Thomas Käckenmeister: Kleber withdraws names from draft. ( December 9, 2018 memento on Internet Archive ) Archived from Basketball website; Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, June 19, 2012. Accessed February 26, 2019.
5. ↑ http://web.draftexpress.com/article/2012-adidas-EUROCAMP-Rosters-Announced-3942/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Maximilian Kleber, Power Forward. Retrieved October 24, 2015 . 
7. ↑ National player Maximilian Kleber for FC Bayern. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 2, 2015 ; accessed on July 1, 2015 . 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.  
8. ↑ Kleber will join the Mavericks on a partially guarenteed minimum ... In: CBSSsports.com. July 13, 2017. Retrieved July 3, 2017 . 
9. ↑ NBA: Maxi Kleber signs new contract with the Dallas Mavericks . In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 14, 2019]).
10. ^ DBB, Maximilian Kleber. Retrieved October 24, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Allemagne at the FIBA ​​Coupe du Monde de Basketball 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2019 (French). 
12. ↑ DHG sports class: Sports funding at the DHG. Hall of Fame. Basketball. Maximilian Kleber . Online at www.dhg-sportklasse.de. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Manuel Baraniak: Maximilian Kleber leaves the league. ( Memento of October 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Basketball website; Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, July 2, 2014. Accessed February 26, 2019.
14. ↑ Award for Maxi Kleber. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 24, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.