This is probably the biggest weekend of Dennis Schroder’s basketball life. He’s captaining the German Olympic team as they try to medal, perhaps even upset Team USA, in men’s basketball, one year after he won gold for his homeland in the FIBA World Cup. We say “probably” because Schroder, a Black man, also carried Germany’s flag at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics two weekends ago. Everything about that was extraordinary considering both Schroder’s personal history and Germany’s, 80 years removed from its downfall as Hitler’s master race.
In an interview with Marc J. Spears of Andscape and ESPN, Schroder touched on all of that .