Leon Kratzer

Leon Kratzer
No. 8 – s.Oliver Würzburg
Position Center
League Basketball Bundesliga
Personal information
Born (1997-02-04) 4 February 1997
Bayreuth, Germany
Nationality German
Listed height 2.12 m (6 ft 11 in)
Listed weight 243 lb (110 kg)
Career information
Playing career 2013–present
Career history
2013–2015 Baunach Young Pikes
2015–present Brose Bamberg
2015–2017 → Baunach Young Pikes
2017–present → s.Oliver Würzburg
Career highlights and awards

Leon Kratzer (born 4 February 1997) is a German professional basketball player for s.Oliver Würzburg of the Basketball Bundesliga, on loan from Brose Bamberg.[1][2]

Career

The son of former professional basketball player Marc Suhr, a 7-foot center who won four caps for the German men's national team during his career, Kratzer started out with BBC Bayreuth’s youth team at age 12,[3] moving on to the Brose Bamberg youth program in 2012. Representing Bamberg's development squad Baunach Young Pikes, he made his debut in Germany's third-tier ProB during the 2013-14 season, helping the team win promotion to ProA that year. Kratzer made his first appearances in Germany's top-flight Basketball Bundesliga for Bamberg in the 2016-17 campaign, while still being a regular in the reserve team. Averaging 14.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 1.5 blocks a game for Baunach in 2016-17,[4] he garnered ProA Player of the Year honors.[5]

Looking to take the next step in his career and to gain more playing time in the Bundesliga, he signed on loan for s.Oliver Würzburg in June 2017.[6]

International career

Kratzer represented the German junior national teams at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championships, the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championships, 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championships and 2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championships.

References

  1. ↑ "easyCredit - 19664 Leon KRATZER". www.easycredit-bbl.de.
  2. ↑ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com.
  3. ↑ "#25 Leon Kratzer - Brose Bamberg". www.brosebamberg.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  4. ↑ "2. Basketball-Bundesliga | Spieler". www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  5. ↑ "Leon Kratzer wechselt nach Würzburg". inFranken.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  6. ↑ "Brose Bamberg verleiht Leon Kratzer nach Würzburg - Brose Bamberg". www.brosebamberg.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-16.
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