FC Bayern Basketball – Paul Zipser after brain surgery: “Basketball has definitely gotten smaller for me”

National basketball player Paul Zipser does not have a precise timetable for a comeback just under six months after his severe brain surgery. “Apart from the right contact training, a few things are still missing, but it is only a matter of time now,” said the 27-year-old Bayern Munich forward on the club podcast “Open Court”.

Former NBA pro Zipser was diagnosed with a bleeding brain tumor on the brain stem in June after balance problems. Zipser described the following operation as a very delicate one.

“That was a shitty place on the ear, on the cerebellum. A congenital malformation. There are simply several centers in the brain that are responsible for different things. For me it was the coordination, the whole right side was very affected from the start “, he said:” The operation took a little longer than originally planned. Because he (the operating doctor Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer, d. Ed.) tried to find and get out the smallest drop of blood somehow. “

Since the operation, his sport has lost its paramount importance. “Basketball has definitely gotten smaller for me,” he said. Zipser has no doubts about a full recovery: “I never believed in it, not even now, everything could not come back 100 percent.”