Uwe Blab

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Basketball player
Uwe Blab
Player information
Nickname Burning Skyscraper
birthday March 26, 1962 (58 years and 154 days)
place of birth Munich , Germany
size 216 cm
position center
college Indiana
NBA draft 1985 , 17th pick, Dallas Mavericks
Clubs as active
1985 - 1989 Dallas Mavericks 1989 Golden State Warriors 1990 San Antonio Spurs 1990–1991 Basket Napoli 1991–1993 Alba BerlinUnited StatesUnited States
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National team
1982-1992 GermanyGermany Germany 105 games

Uwe Blab (born March 26, 1962 in Munich ) is a former German basketball player . He was one of the first German players in the US professional basketball league NBA . Because of his red hair and impressive height of 2.16 m he got the nickname "Burning Skyscraper" (German: burning skyscraper).

career

Blab started playing basketball at the age of 15, he came to the DJK Sportbund Munich through the club president Helmut Handwerker and was initially trained by the renowned coach Laszlo Lakfalvi in the club's youth team. During a friendly match between his team and Effingham High School in Munich, he was approached by the guests' coach and as a result the son of a lawyer moved to the USA as an exchange student at the age of 17 . His younger brother Olaf  later also moved to the United States as a basketball player.

There he graduated from Effingham High School and Indiana University , for whose teams he acted in the center position.

Blab in 1985 to 17th place with lots of early praise and high expectations next Detlef Schrempf from the Dallas Mavericks ge draft et . However, he was never able to meet this, which is why he moved to the Golden State Warriors after four years in Dallas before he was transferred from these to the San Antonio Spurs .

He then ended his NBA career and moved to Club Basket Naples in Italy . In 1991 he signed with Alba Berlin , where he ended his career in 1993. “I was only 31, I would have had a few more years in me. Berlin wanted to keep me committed and would have paid me good money. But I was fed up, ”said Blab in an interview with Südkurier in 2017.

Blab took part in the Olympic Games twice, in 1984 in Los Angeles and in 1992 in Barcelona.

Then Blab moved back to Texas with his wife and children on a ranch and worked as a software developer. Blab lost one of his sons in a brawl in a college in San Marcos, Texas, in January 2010 when the 19-year-old got uninvolved in it.

See also

Web links

  • Uwe Blab on: NBA website; New York, NY, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  • Uwe Blab on: Basketball Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018 (in English).
  • Uwe Blab on: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2016. Retrieved December 11, 2018 (in English).
  • Uwe Blab on: Lega Basket website; Rome, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2018 (in Italian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Südkurier Medienhaus: Basketball: Uwe Blab prepared the way for Nowitzki & Co. to join the NBA: "I always wanted to have it quiet" | SÜDKURIER Online . In: SÜDKURIER Online . ( suedkurier.de [accessed on March 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Olaf Blab, the brother of Indiana center Uwe Blab, ... In: UPI . ( upi.com [accessed March 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Ex-NBA star Blab mourns the son . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on March 10, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Patrick George: Teen killed in San Marcos fight loved travel, adventure. Christopher Blab, 1990-2010 ( Memento from January 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Blab, Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burning skyscraper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich