Dennis Schröder is of course still a basketball player, but recently the aura of a prophet surrounded him. He had a video Put online in which he predicted everything that now turns him back to life. “I would like to stay in Detroit, but Detroit is not waiting for me,” said the 31-year-old in a social media live stream. And sacrifices, this becomes a reality: his previous association, the Detroit Pistons, actually did not hesitate long and transferred him to the Sacramento Kings this Tuesday, as Schröder confirmed in the evening via X.
From the east of the NBA into the deep west, from an up -and -coming, albeit hardly any title tire team to the Californian prairie: a sporty downgrade. It has been Schröder’s tenth change since he came to the US Profiliga in 2013.
The fact that players in the NBA are simply shipped to other teams without a say is one of the customs of business. Schröder himself described this capitalism machinery at the beginning of this year as “modern slavery” – and of course excessively exaggerated. But he had given a justification for a formative question of his career: Why does this basketball player, decorated world champion and self -explained leader change his clubs in the USA, like others, their sneakers?
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The answer to this obvious notch in his long profile career has to do with his skills. On the one hand. And on the other hand, with money and the fact that there are basically two Dennis Schröders: those in the German national team and that in the NBA. In terms of sport, Schröder has long shown what he can. When the circumstances are right, you let him make his qualities as a senior motifor, climber and free spirit to the fore, his game develops something rousing. The Germans World championship colleagues from 2023 confirm this without exception: in the DBB team, where the then national coach Gordon Herbert established a solar system around the Fixstern Schröder, the Braunschweiger was a 1.85 meter giant for a summer.
But in the NBA, hardly anyone is ready to give him this freeze. Although he also indicated there at stations in Atlanta or Oklahoma (rather at the beginning of his career), for which he is capable of influence on the parquet. Then his journey began as a hiking man through the world of US basketball, who reads like an extract from the free mileage at American Airlines: La Lakers, Boston Celtics, Houston Rockets, again the Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons-and now the Sacramento Kings, where he should sign for three years. The annual salary according to the $ 15 million. For a veteran on the home stretch of his career in the association, this is very neat. Just not according to sporting criteria, because with the Kings – according to the sober forecast – it will probably hardly go better than recently with his other stopover in the wood class of the company.
How ends Schröder’s long NBA career, which already played in so many places?
As a so -called “Free Agent”, which this time was able to probe at least offers and earnings opportunities, Schröder is again involved in a team in transition. New coach, new game system, some well -known colleagues such as Demar Derozan, Zach Lavine, Domantas Sabonis, that yes. But no title prospects. His remaining years in the glittering country of US sports could rather mean existence in half-darkening.
This leads to the question of what Dennis Schröder expects from his profile life: finally the chance of a championship that his German colleague Isaiah Hartenstein recently won with Oklahoma? As a puzzle player, the other work? Or simply enough playing time to draw appreciation from it, including another millions? In the end, as in previous years, no master candidate should have been interested in a commitment to Schröder, places in the squad are particularly popular there. And Schröder’s profile is too special. It is also possible that he could have remained less references in Detroit, with an association that made it into the playoffs in 2025. But those responsible for the Pistons had to redistribute salary in order to be able to pay more wing players Malik Beasley. Despite good performances, there was no longer enough left for the German despite good performances. A lot comes together: future plans of clubs, Schröder’s status as “only” 1b awareness and its own ambition.
“I see it like this: I play in a league that only 350 to 400 professionals make every year. And: “I want to be where I am valued.” He looks satisfied with his path.
