Basketball – Dennis Schröder settles in Oklahoma – Sport

The German NBA player leaves Atlanta after five years. Vincenzo Nibali must abandon the Tour de France with a vertebral fracture.

Basketball, NBA: German basketball player Dennis Schröder will score points in the upcoming season for Oklahoma City Thunder in the North American NBA professional league, according to US media reports. As reported ESPN sports broadcaster Thursday (local time), Oklahoma was in agreement with the current employer of Schröder, the Atlanta Hawks, on a point-and-point change -shooter 24 years old. On his Instagram account, Schröder showed the "Oklahoma City 17" logo instead of a profile photo on a blue background and posted a photo montage of him in the Oklahoma jersey. An official confirmation is still pending. The basketball star is expected to replace starter goalkeeper Russell Westbrook in the Thunder. Over the past season, Schröder averaged 19.2 points, 6.2 badists and 3.1 rebounds per game. The international played a total of five years for the Hawks

Cycling, Tour de France: For former Tour winner Vincenzo Nibali, the 105th Tour de France is over. The Italian professional cyclist suffered a vertebral fracture during a fall on the 12th stage at L'Alpe d'Huez and had to give up. His team, Bahrain-Merida, announced Thursday night that Nibali would have fallen after a collision with a police motorcycle about five kilometers from the finish. The fourth in the overall ranking tormented with pain on arrival. The bike in front of him had "suddenly slowed down and I hit him," said Nibali. At the hospital, the dreaded serious injury was confirmed. Nibali won the Tour in 2014, and in 2013 and 2016, the 33-year-old triumphed in his home country at the Giro d'Italia

Football, World Cup: Stefan Lupp, Referee Assistant Felix Brych, was defeated by coaching statements Serbian national Mladen Krstajic after the qualifying match for the World Cup Switzerland (1: 2) has reached a new dimension. "It was indescribable and I have not experienced it, it's amazing," said Lupp the Sport Buzzer portal. The former striker of the Czech Republic, Krstajic, said that he would send her to "The Hague", the seat of the UN war crimes tribunal, following a penalty unsuccessful Brych. The coach was fined by the World Federation Fifa with a fine of the equivalent of 4300 euros. "We have been much criticized, we have lived a lot, but it was probably the worst abuse we had to endure," Lupp said.

Brych (Munich), Lupp (Zossen) and Mark Borsch (Mönchengladbach) then named for no other games. Lupp sees Krstajic's statements as the reason for that. "In the end, we were so focused that it was difficult to get involved again," said the 39-year-old. The early departure of the German arbitration team was not justified by Fifa. "The referees who had to go home got an email telling us to come to a late meeting, where they told us in person," Lupp said.