{"id":341690,"date":"2025-12-11T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341690\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:38:10","slug":"maciej-lampe-there-is-a-small-chance-that-i-could-join-real-madrids-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341690\/","title":{"rendered":"Maciej Lampe: “There is a small chance that I could join Real Madrid\u2019s coaching staff”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Maciej Lampe had a great playing career, starting professionally with Real Madrid<\/a> back in 2001. He later played in the NBA for the New York Knicks<\/a>, Phoenix Suns<\/a>, New Orleans Hornets<\/a> and Houston Rockets<\/a>, before returning to Europe.<\/p>\n

He then donned the jerseys of many EuroLeague clubs, like Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/a>, Baskonia<\/a> (Caja Laboral at the time) and Barcelona, making his mark in European basketball.<\/p>\n

A couple of years after finishing his playing career, he devoted himself to organizing the Lampe Challenge across the continent \u2014 a 2\u00d72 basketball tournament series that started back in 2005 \u2014 and this path led him to Serbia, where he will organize a tournament and attend the Belgrade derby.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a former player, I rarely get excited about a game. But now I\u2019m extremely excited. I just got word that I\u2019ll have tickets. I\u2019m also bringing a girl from England \u2014 she\u2019s half Polish \u2014 who handles content. You know, I played in those kinds of atmospheres, but every time I go in front of Serbian fans, it\u2019s something special. I\u2019ve been fighting for tickets for three weeks already\u2026,\u201d Lampe said for Meridian Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n

Still, he is interested in continuing his path in basketball as a coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a small chance, a possibility, that I could join Real Madrid<\/a>\u2019s coaching staff. Sergio Scariolo was my coach when I was at Real, when I debuted as the youngest player in the club\u2019s history \u2014 until Luka Don\u010di\u0107 broke my record. I called Sergio at the beginning of the year and told him: \u2018It would be nice if I could start my coaching career where I began my playing career.\u2019 He was open to the idea. He told me: \u2018Try to find a job as an assistant or a head coach somewhere, do well, and then you\u2019ll increase your chances of coming to Real in the future.\u2019 That\u2019s my plan now,\u201d he continued, adding that Sergio Scariolo had a big influence on him early in his career.<\/p>\n

As a European who played in the NBA from 2003 to 2006, Lampe is amazed by what Nikola Joki\u0107 is doing today.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasics, basics, basics\u2026 Great hands, great movement, passing, shooting, court vision\u2026 Ahead of his time! What he\u2019s doing is incredible. I was a little mad he didn\u2019t get the MVP last season, but Oklahoma City won because the most important shot in basketball is the free throw. If you control that, you control the game. I love watching him because it\u2019s a formula with very little dribbling. I use that in my program and the kids love it, their parents love it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Maciej Lampe had a great playing career, starting professionally with Real Madrid back in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-341690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}