does germany have a professional basketball team?

Answer 1

Yes the do have a professional league.

Basketball Bundesliga

In German Basketball, the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) is the highest level club competition where play determines the national champion.
A national basketball league was first organized for play in 1939. The first title was won by LSV Spandau. With the beginning of Second World War, league play came to an end. Not until 1947 was the second basketball championship decided.
The Basketball Bundesliga was created as a pro player league in 1966. Between 2001 and 2003 the league had a sponsored name; it was called "s.Oliver BBL".

Today, eighteen teams compete in the highest level of play. The team holding the record for title championships is Bayer Giants Leverkusen, who have won 14 championships. Since 1997, however, ALBA Berlin has dominated the league, winning their 7th title in 2003 as a result. 21 teams have won the championship since its inception.


Team City/Area
Brose Baskets (formerly GHP Bamberg) Bamberg
ALBA Berlin
Telekom Baskets Bonn
New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig
Eisbären Bremerhaven
Deutsche Bank Skyliners Frankfurt
Giessen 46ers Gießen
BG Karlsruhe
RheinEnergie Köln Cologne
Bayer Giants Leverkusen
EnBW Ludwigsburg
Sellbytel Baskets Nürnberg
EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Schröno Paderborn Baskets
Artland Dragons Quakenbrück
TBB Trier
WALTER TIGERS Tübingen
Ratiopharm Ulm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesliga_%28basketball%29

Answer 2

All European countries have pro leagues. The top leagues pay $1 Million plus to players. The pay scale drops as the league does. Germany's league has strange rules that allow teams to have many foreign players in each team. So the Germans aren't really developing their own talent. They've recently done well at the Worlds and Olympics but right now it's due to Mr Nowitski