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Originally posted by Hannibal
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Recent top European prospects have been worth $3-5 million euros, though 90% of them have been for Spanish or Serbian clubs and Wagner being a rare German prospect, I'm not sure there's much of a precedent there.
Dennis Schroder (now with the Atlanta Hawks) was the last hot prospect out of Germany (really the first one since Dirk) but he was more of a later bloomer so I doubt he had as big a contract with Braunschwieg. This would probably be the first time a German club really made a major play for a domestic player.
Germans don't historically love basketball, but they love themselves some Dirk. If a domestic club feels they can sell him as Dirk 2.0, he could have some big money thrown his way.
As a side note, there's a documentary about Dirk's life on Netflix, and I think it's fascinating. His shooting form was essentially engineered by his mentor Holger Geschwinder, who used physics to calculate exactly what type of movements to incorporate. He's got an academy in Germany called the Institute of Applied Nonsense where he comes up with really weird ways to apply science to basketball. He's even got ideal shooting mechanics on various planets in the solar system (taking gravity into account), just for the hell of it.
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