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Fraport Skyliners dismounted from BBL

DThe basketball players of the Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt had to stand by and watch as their relegation from the Bundesliga was sealed. With the 82:66 (49:41) victory of the Basketball Löwen Braunschweig at the Giessen 46ers on Wednesday, the difficult transition to the second division is certain for the Hessians. With three games left, Frankfurt can no longer leave the relegation zone.

For the Skyliners – after all champions in 2004 and cup winners in 2000 – it is the low point of a thoroughly sobering season. Before their own victory in Oldenburg on Monday, they had lost six in a row, so far in the 2022 calendar year there have only been three wins. And the remaining games against the local rivals from Gießen, who are also threatened with relegation, as well as Crailsheim and Bayreuth are now meaningless.

How things will continue for the Hessians is open. After the club had kept the step open for a long time, it became known on Tuesday that the Skyliners are trying to get a first division license despite the sporting decline. You are one of 22 candidates. The decision on admission should be made in early May, according to the basketball Bundesliga.

A lot is likely to change in terms of personnel and the squad. Diego Ocampo, the eternal assistant Klaus Perwas and currently Luca Dalmonte were allowed to try their hand at coaching this season. However, the success never came.

Even before the final end on Wednesday evening, the Skyliners’ hopes were only theoretical. After the defeat at the Hamburg Towers, relegation could hardly be prevented in the previous week.

Only complicated arithmetic games and three-way comparisons could have saved the Hessians from the extremely uncomfortable and feared fall into the second division. Just six years ago, the Frankfurters were crowned winners of the Fiba Europe Cup – now, of all things, after two financially very difficult years of the pandemic, the biggest setback followed.

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