The Dallas Mavericks player, Maxi Kleber, has resigned from playing in the 2023 World Cup after the criticism received from his teammate, Dennis Schröder, for being absent from the last Eurobasket 2022.
“I think it’s not fair that, if you weren’t there last year when others sacrificed their summer, you have to tell a player that he can’t go this year because someone decided to play the following year,” Dennis Schröder acknowledged. «To Maxi (Kleber), you know what I am. I apologize. I didn’t mean to offend you. You know what the press is like, and in the end the decision is the coach’s,’ he added.
In response to the words of the new Toronto Raptors point guard, Kleber published a letter in the German magazine BIG where he explained the true reasons for his absence despite feeling more than prepared for the World Cup event.
«My goals when playing basketball and being able to represent Germany is to feel XNUMX%, help the team and be a good teammate. The (very tough) decision not to play last year was due to an injury I had in the last four months of the NBA season. I needed to fully recover and rest,” Kleber explained.
