The Veolia Towers Hamburg are fighting for the playoffs in the Easycredit Basketball-Bundesliga. After a disastrous start, they have turned the tide and can still win the chance for the play-in round with a home win against the Frankfurt Skyliners on Easter Sunday. Top for sports fans: SPORTBILD.de will show the game in a free live stream, WELT TV will broadcast it in free TV. Even if Geschäftsführer Marvin Willoughby brakes: We said twelve wins would be good to be absolutely sure to hold the class. So one is missing. For me, the first step is these twelve wins. When we have them, we can still talk about everything else. L.J. Thorpe has a big part in the Towers' upswing. The powerful power forward was the best Hamburger in the recent wins against FC Bayern and in Oldenburg. Thorpe also sets the tone off the court - as a team DJ. With surprising music selection! Before the Bayern win, he played instead of aggressive hip-hop beats "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift, in Oldenburg the love song "Little Things" by Ella Mai. Thorpe is also private and quiet. And reveals: One thing that hardly anyone knows is: I love to fish. Thorpe comes from the celebrity hotspot West Palm Beach in Florida. His uncle Otis Thorpe played 14 years in the NBA and won the championship with the Houston Rockets in 1995. The nephew, however, had not much to do with basketball at first: When I grew up, I played football. That was my first love. Even today, the 106-kilo-brocken reminds more of a football player. But: As I got older, the other kids also got bigger and delivered harder hits. Then I switched to basketball. Last summer, Thorpe (contract until 2027) came to the Towers after stations in Finland and Lithuania to the Bundesliga. And makes it clear: My goal is to always win. In his own words: Choose SPORT BILD as your preferred Google source