EIt sounded spectacular what the German basketball players had to do to make it to the Sportsman of the Year election in Baden-Baden in time. Or rather what the organizers had put in place. FC Bayern Munich, which also employs European champions Andreas Obst, Oscar da Silva, Justus Hollatz, Leon scratch, Niels Giffey and Johannes Voigtmann, had an away game in front of 19,000 spectators in Cologne on Sunday evening at 6 p.m. The Baskets from Bonn had moved there especially for this game. However, the live broadcast of the athlete election on ZDF began at 8 p.m., almost on time for the final siren in Cologne.
