Basketball player Dennis Kramer is dead
Ex-professional dies at 31
Dennis Kramer was only 31 years old.
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The German basketball world mourns the loss of former professional Dennis Kramer. The former BG Göttingen player was only 31 years old.
Mourning in the world of German basketball: Former professional player Dennis Kramer (1992-2023) is dead. As the “Göttinger Tageblatt” reports, Kramer died in a traffic accident near Barterode on Sunday evening.
The German Basketball Federation also shared the “terrible news” on Monday afternoon on X (formerly Twitter). “We mourn the loss of our former U18, U20 and A2 international Dennis Kramer (silver at Universiade 2015), who died tragically at the age of 31 in a traffic accident”, it says in the post.
“With great sadness and dismay”
Kramer’s last professional club BG Göttingen also shared the terrible news on Instagram, among other things. “It was with great sadness and dismay that BG Göttingen reacted to the news of the death of their former player Dennis Kramer,” can be read in the post.
Kramer played for the club from 2017 to 2021 and played a total of 115 games as center. Before that, he played for EWE Baskets Oldenburg and TBB Trier in the German Basketball League. He attended university in San Diego from 2010 to 2014 and played in the US college league NCAA.
Former national team colleague Maodo Lo mourns Dennis Kramer
“The entire Göttingen basketball family will miss Kramer’s big heart, his open and humorous nature and his always positive attitude,” the moving Instagram post from BG Göttingen continues. National basketball player Maodo Lo, 30, who is currently playing with the German selection at the 2023 Basketball World Cup, also remembers his former national teammates from the U23 team on Instagram. “rest in peace man” Lo wrote in an Instagram story on Monday night on the contribution of the German Basketball Federation.