Maxi Kleber threatens to end season German NBA professional suffers injury shock
May 5, 2024, 9:08 a.m
A hard fall on the shoulder apparently ends all of Maxi Kleber’s playoff dreams. The German NBA professional from the Dallas Mavericks injured himself so badly that he had to face the end of the season. His abstinence from the Olympics has already been determined.
According to media reports, German basketball professional Maxi Kleber from the Dallas Mavericks is threatened with an early end to the season in the North American professional league NBA. As reported by the AP news agency and the television station ESPN, citing a source close to the club, the 32-year-old injured his shoulder so badly in the Texans’ win against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday that further missions for the team were canceled native of Würzburg will hardly be possible in the coming weeks. There is no official confirmation of this yet.
The Mavs around Kleber and Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic are already in the second round of the playoffs. Dallas, the former club of superstar Dirk Nowitzki, will face the favored Oklahoma City Thunder in the semifinals of the Western Conference starting Tuesday.
Kleber only played five minutes due to an injury in the decisive first-round win to make it 4-2 in the best-of-seven series against the Clippers and scored four points. After being fouled on a layup early in the second quarter, he landed hard on his right shoulder. He had to be treated – and then didn’t return to the game. ESPN initially reported a shoulder sprain, but now the injury appears to be more serious.
He has time to cure this in the summer. After all, he will not take part in the Olympic Games in Paris, even though Germany has qualified as basketball world champions. He had already skipped the tournament in Asia last summer, following a dispute with captain Dennis Schröder. At the beginning of March, when asked by ran what his participation in Paris was like, he said: “No, I won’t be there. Some things are just not meant to be. Everyone goes their own way.”
2024-05-05 07:08:00
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