{"id":121664,"date":"2025-08-30T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:01:07","slug":"dennis-schroder-faces-racial-abuse-during-eurobasket-fiba-officials-ban-fan-from-attending-rest-of-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121664\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Schr\u00f6der faces racial abuse during EuroBasket, FIBA officials ban fan from attending rest of tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA veteran Dennis Schr\u00f6der scored a game-high 26 points and guided Germany to a 107-88 group phase win over Lithuania at EuroBasket<\/a> on Saturday. But, before halftime, he was also the target of racial abuse in Finland’s Tampere Deck Arena, according to The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two people were identified as the alleged perpetrators, the German Basketball Association said, according to the AP, which reported that those two people were then ejected from the arena.<\/p>\n

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One of them was ultimately identified by video and has been banned from the rest of the tournament, FIBA officials said.<\/p>\n

“FIBA unequivocally condemns hate speech, discriminatory conduct and racist language in any form,” the group said, via the AP. “Creating an inclusive, respectful and safe environment for players, teams and fans remains a fundamental priority of our sport.<\/p>\n

“FIBA has provided the relevant footage and information to local law enforcement authorities, who are continuing to investigate the matter.”<\/p>\n

The incident took place while Schr\u00f6der \u2014 Germany’s team captain \u2014 walked to the locker room.<\/p>\n

“Making monkey noises, that\u2019s something I don\u2019t respect,\u201d Schr\u00f6der reportedly<\/a> said in German postgame.<\/p>\n

“No matter what status, insults, that\u2019s all fine. But racism simply doesn\u2019t belong in this sport. That\u2019s something that\u2019s not OK.”<\/p>\n

Schr\u00f6der is preparing for his 13th season in the NBA. The soon-to-be 32-year-old guard agreed to a three-year, $45 million deal<\/a> with the Sacramento Kings last month.<\/p>\n

Schr\u00f6der, who will be playing for his 10th NBA team when the 2025-26 season gets underway, notably compared the league’s trade deadline to “modern slavery” earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s like modern slavery,” Schr\u00f6der said in a February interview with NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>. “It\u2019s modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you\u2019re going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money and we can feed our families, but at the end of the day if they say, \u2018You\u2019re not coming to work tomorrow, you\u2019re going over there,\u2019 they can decide that.”<\/p>\n

The same week Schr\u00f6der vocalized his frustrations, he was part of the Golden State Warriors’ five-team, blockbuster Jimmy Butler trade<\/a>. Schr\u00f6der was briefly rerouted to the Utah Jazz, who then traded him to Detroit on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n

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Schr\u00f6der has played games for the Atlanta Hawks (2013-18), Oklahoma City Thunder (2018-2020), Los Angeles Lakers (2020-21 and 2022-23), Boston Celtics (2021-22), Houston Rockets (2022), Toronto Raptors (2023-24), Brooklyn Nets (2024), Golden State Warriors (2024-25) and Detroit Pistons (2025).<\/p>\n

As for Saturday’s incident, FIBA said it’s planning on meeting with the Lithuanian delegation to discuss the matter, per the AP.<\/p>\n

Germany, which has now won its first three games in the group phase of the competition, has clinched the EuroBasket Round of 16 in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA veteran Dennis Schr\u00f6der scored a game-high 26 points and guided Germany to a 107-88 group phase win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6417,2242,671,6423,2120,4576,23006,23008,77975,6797,2243,77978,5050,17721,1055,77977,355,6402,6404,99,77976,2970,4219],"class_list":["post-121664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-boston-celtics","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-eurobasket","tag-fiba","tag-german-basketball-association","tag-germany","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-group-phase","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-modern-slavery","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-team-germany","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}