Torsten Stein (basketball player)

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Torsten Stein (* in Berlin ) is a former German basketball player .

career

The 2.18 meter tall stone went to the United States in 1985 as a basketball player and student , where he played at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the state of New Jersey . The Berliner was used in 68 games and achieved averages of 2.9 points and 3.2 rebounds. One of his strengths was blocking opposing throws, in the 1987/88 season he statistically managed 1.6 and in 1988/89 even 2.1 blocks per encounter.

Stein went back to Germany and played in the 1989/90 season for Goldstar Hagen in the basketball league . In the run-up to the 1990/91 game year, he moved to Steiner Bayreuth within the Bundesliga . At the end of August 1990 he was in a friendly match in Frankfurt am Main between Bayreuth and a selection of US soldiers on the field together with Michael Jordan , who was on a promotional trip for a sporting goods manufacturer and was part of the Bayreuth team.

Stein, who suffered from back pain as an athlete , came into contact with the Gonstead method during treatment by a chiropractor and later worked in this field himself. Stein received his doctorate from the Sherman College Chiropractic School in the US state of South Carolina . He settled in Glendale ( Arizona, USA ) as a chiropractor specializing in the Gonstead method and describes himself as the "greatest chiropractor in the world".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Stein College Stats. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Basketball archive . In: basketball archive . ( wixsite.com [accessed January 8, 2017]).
  3. ^ Dino Reisner: Because Bayreuth was more attractive than Ulm . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 108-110 .
  4. ↑ Frank Joung: Michael Jordan in the Bundesliga . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 153 .
  5. ↑ Dr Torsten Stein, DC. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Bio-Stone Chiropractic. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin