Basketball World Cup
“It won’t be anything”: basketball player Franz Wagner is out
The German basketball players have to do without Franz Wagner. The health setback caught the NBA professional on a special day.
The German Basketball Federation (DBB) had left an assignment open until the end and was waiting for further results of the investigation. What the walking boots and the diagnosis mean for the third group game against Finland on Tuesday (9.30 a.m.) is still open.
In the game against Japan on Friday, Wagner twisted his ankle in the final quarter and had to be replaced. National coach Gordon Herbert later quarreled with himself as to why he hadn’t replaced Wagner earlier. Alongside captain Dennis Schröder, the winger is considered the most important player in the German team.