Dirk Nowitzki (German basketball legend): “World champion!!! Unbelievable! What a team!!!!”
Robin Benzing (former captain of the national basketball team): “We are world champions! When I see the pictures, I almost cry. The team showed such will, they got better and better in the tournament. It’s just unbelievable. My Kudos to Dennis, I’m very happy that he has now reached his goal. He has really grown. The way he has carried the team over the last few years – what a leader!”
Marko Pesic (Managing Director FC Bayern Basketball): “Congratulations to the German team on a historic victory. Getting through the World Cup undefeated is something very special, perhaps unique.”
Pau Gasol (Spanish former world champion and NBA professional): “What a fantastic day of basketball we had. Congratulations to Germany on winning the world championship.”
DOSB: “The German basketball players are writing sports history and are #world champions for the first time. The @DBB_Basketball team defeated Serbia in the final with 83:77. Congratulations!”
Basketball Bundesliga: “GERMAN BASKETBALL IS MAD SEXY. GERMANY IS WORLD CHAMPION.”
NBA: “Job done. Germany wins its first FIBA World Cup title.”
Toni Kroos (2014 soccer world champion): “It’s crazy! So proud!”
Bastian Schweinsteiger (2014 Soccer World Champion): “WORLD CHAMPION – An incredible achievement!”
Mats Hummels (2014 soccer world champion): “WORLD CHAMPIONS OF GERMANY.”
Herbert Hainer (President of FC Bayern): “This title is incredible, hard to believe, it is nothing other than an incredible sporting sensation and we are truly speechless. Many thousands of congratulations to this incredible team, we in Munich are simply proud of them Andi Obst, Isaac Bonga and Niels Giffey, this Bayern block has achieved historic things with the entire team and coach Herbert.”
Borussia Dortmund: “German sports history written! Great class – congratulations, men!”
Eintracht Braunschweig: “Braunschweig is world champion” (…) “Great fight, great sport and an outstanding team performance – respect for that!”
Jörg Roßkopf (national table tennis coach): “It’s of course an absolute sensation. But this success had already been on the horizon in recent years because it’s a great team with very, very good players who were able to gain a foothold in America and in the NBA also play well. Winning the semifinals against the USA and now also the final is a really great result. It’s another World Cup title for Germany, and that’s very, very cool.”
Robert Harting (Olympic discus champion): “I definitely want to play basketball right now.”
Franz Reindl (ice hockey icon): “Incredible performance, solidarity, passion. A really great sport.”
Olaf Scholz (Chancellor): “World champion! Sensational, historic and so deserved. Congratulations.”
Nancy Faeser (Federal Minister of the Interior): “Wow!! World champion! Really strong! An incredible team effort. Congratulations!”
Annalena Baerbock (Federal Foreign Minister): “What a mega game. #Fantastic. Congratulations.”