{"id":683690,"date":"2026-05-20T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:21:25","slug":"mens-basketball-inks-latvia-native-janis-junemann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/683690\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Inks Latvia Native Janis J\u00fcnemann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2013 Western Michigan head men&#8217;s basketball coach Kahil Fennell has announced the signing of Latvia native Janis J\u00fcnemann. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA 6-11 center, J\u00fcnemann is set to head to Kalamazoo after spending the last three seasons with BG G\u00f6ettingen, which currently plays in ProA, the second-tier of professional basketball in Germany. In 32 games this season, he tallied 5.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per contest in just 13.0 minutes of action while shooting 51.3 percent from the field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn his first two seasons with the club, G\u00f6ettingen played in Basketball Bundesliga, the top level of professional basketball in Germany. After appearing in three contests his first year as an 18-year old in 2023-24, J\u00fcnemann saw action in 33 games in 2024-25 and picked up 2.7 points and 2.2 rebounds per game while shooting 50.8 percent from the floor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJ\u00fcnemann also has experience at the international level, having played for Latvia in the 2024 FIBA U20 EuroBasket Division B. In seven games at the tournament, he averaged 3.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per contest.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2013 Western Michigan head men&#8217;s basketball coach Kahil Fennell has announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-683690","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\/683690","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=683690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}