{"id":414225,"date":"2026-01-15T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:28:09","slug":"european-trailblazer-detlef-schrempf-lauds-nbas-evolution-into-global-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414225\/","title":{"rendered":"European trailblazer Detlef Schrempf lauds NBA&#8217;s evolution into global game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Berlin \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the first regular-season NBA game in Germany, European basketball pioneer Detlef Schrempf is &#8220;proud&#8221; of the role he played in making the league a worldwide phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NBA has gone global,&#8221; Schrempf said from Berlin, where the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic will face off on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time NBA All-Star, Schrempf is considered the first true European star in the NBA, popularizing the game in his native Germany and in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlin \u2013 On the eve of the first regular-season NBA game in Germany, European basketball pioneer Detlef Schrempf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,218888,2057,5717,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-414225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-detlef-schrempf","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414225","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=414225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}