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Dennis Schröder is moving within the NBA
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Basketball world champion Dennis Schröder is moving from the Toronto Raptors to the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. The Braunschweig-based German Press Agency confirmed corresponding reports from various US media on Thursday. “Yes, that’s right,” said Schröder. The Nets have “good players to play with.”
He hopes "that Mikal Bridges and Cam Thomas aren't too mad at me about the World Cup." The two US national players surprisingly lost to Germany in the semi-finals of the World Cup with the USA. In return for Schröder, American Spencer Dinwiddie is moving to the Toronto Raptors.
The Nets are Schröder's seventh team in the NBA. He started his NBA career with the Atlanta Hawks in 2013. He then played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics, the Houston Rockets, again for the Lakers and, since the beginning of the season, for the Toronto Raptors in Canada. In the Eastern Conference table, the Nets are just ahead of the Raptors and are fighting for participation in the playoffs, so the change is not really a sporting improvement.
Schröder still has room for improvement
With an average of 13.7 points and 6.1 assists, Schröder - who was voted MVP of the tournament during Germany's World Cup victory in the summer - is having a mixed season. The playmaker recently lost his place in the starting five with the Raptors. He started the season hopeful and announced: “I want to prove that I am one of the best point guards in the league. I'm going to go out here and try to move the team forward and be a leader."
That was only partially successful, even though Schröder already had reason to celebrate this season: in December he became only the third German NBA professional to reach the 10,000 point mark. Only Detlef Schrempf (15,761 points) and Dirk Nowitzki (31,560) had previously achieved this.
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