Schröder was also named to the Euro Basket 2025 All-Star Five and became the sixth player ever to win both the World Cup and Euro Basket MVP awards.
Dennis Schröder is the son of a German father and a Gambian mother and has a brother and a younger sister.
He and his brother were both heavily involved with skateboarding until he found basketball at age 11.
He started focusing on the latter career after his father died in 2009, he choose to wear the jersey number 17 in his honour, as it was his favorite number.
