Niklas Kiel

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Basketball player
Niklas Kiel
Player information
birthday 4th September 1997
place of birth Herford, Germany
size 207 cm
position Power forward
NBA draft undrafted
Club information
society Fraport Skyliners
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 41
Clubs as active
2005-2014 GermanyGermany BBG Herford
2010-2014 GermanyGermany→ Paderborn Baskets ( JBBL / NBBL )
2014–0000 GermanyGermany Fraport Skyliners

Niklas Kiel (born September 4, 1997 in Herford ) is a German basketball player . Kiel is considered to be one of the greatest German young talents and in 2012 was champion of the German youth basketball league (JBBL) with the youth team of the Paderborn Baskets ; a year later he was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the JBBL season. For the 2014/15 season, the youth international moved to the first division club Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt, where he has already been used in individual games of the top German division after injury problems from teammates. As part of the NBA All-Star Weekend 2015, Kiel is one of 40 players worldwide and thus the first German player to be nominated for the first ever Global Camp of the joint FIBA and NBA initiative Basketball without Borders .

Career

In 2010, Kiel switched to the cooperative youth program Talentoffensive OWL of the former first division club Paderborn Baskets, where he was active in the youth team in the youth basketball league (JBBL). In 2012, Kiel won the JBBL championship with the youth team. A year later, Kiel was voted MVP as JBBL Player of the Season in 2013 after he had scored a double-double on average per game of just under 27 points and 19 rebounds , but his team failed to make it back to the top four as defending champions . The Top Four Kiel reached a year later than NBBL- " Rookie of the Year" with the junior team of Paderborn Baskets in the junior basketball league (NBBL), but in the semi-final they lost against the defending team Steingädele .

For the 2014/15 season, youth international Kiel, who was previously only active in the men's division in the regional league for his home club from Herford, moved to the first division club Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main . In addition to the Eintracht Frankfurt junior team, he was initially in the NBBL for the reserve team Junior Skyliners , in which the experienced former Paderborn first division player Marius Nolte is one of his teammates, in the third highest men's division ProB , but after injury problems in the first division team Kiel came in the first half of the basketball Bundesliga 2014/15 for a first appearance in the top German division. In January 2015, Kiel again took part in the NBBL All-Star Game as part of the BBL All-Star Game's supporting program, and became a Global Camp after just missing out on the deposit game in the Jordan Brand Classic the year before nominated for the joint FIBA ​​/ NBA initiative Basketball without Borders , which will take place for the first time as part of the NBA All-Star Weekend 2015 in New York City for players born in 1997. There, Kiel took part as one of 40 young players worldwide as the only German player. In 2016 he won the FIBA Europe Cup with Frankfurt . In May 2017 he was appointed to the squad of the German U20 national team.

At the U20 European Championship in summer 2017, he reached seventh place overall with the German team and scored an average of 4.1 points per match. Due to concussions in Kiel, his Frankfurt team announced in August 2019 that they would initially plan the 2019/20 season without him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NBBL-ALLSTARS: North vs. South - Power Forwards. ( Memento from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Awards JBBL. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; Retrieved January 18, 2015 (tabular chronicle of the awards).
  3. ↑ Philipp Dornhegge: Like McHale paired with Gallinari. spox.com , September 26, 2013, accessed January 18, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Talent offensive OWL. Paderborn Baskets , accessed on January 18, 2015 (homepage of the initiative).
  5. ↑ Jan Finken: NBBL / JBBL TOP4> 2012> JBBL TOP4: Paderborn Baskets win titles. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , 2012, archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; accessed on January 18, 2015 (match report).
  6. ↑ Awards NBBL. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; Retrieved January 18, 2015 (tabular chronicle of the awards).
  7. ↑ NBBL ALLSTAR 2015 - the duels. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; accessed on January 18, 2015 (media info).
  8. ↑ Niklas Kiel at the Jordan Brand Classic. German Basketball Federation , March 4, 2013, accessed on January 18, 2015 (Medien-Info Paderborn Baskets).
  9. ↑ Niklas Kiel nominated for BWB Global Camp. German Basketball Federation , December 3, 2014, accessed on January 18, 2015 (media info).
  10. ↑ NBA and FIBA ​​to host Basketball without Borders Global camp at NBA All-Star 2015 in New York. FIBA , November 25, 2014, accessed on January 18, 2015 (English, media information).
  11. ↑ http://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/jugend/u20-herren/henrik-roedl-nominiert-u20-herren-172194
  12. ↑ http://www.fiba.com/europe/u20/2017/Germany
  13. ↑ https://www.fraport-skyliners.de/news-service/details/8462-fraport-skyliners-ueberzeugen-in-erstem-testspiel/
personal data
SURNAME Kiel, Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford , Germany