Center who joined the Bayern Munich of the Basketball Bundesliga in 2017 and is also a member of the German national team. He has 40,000 followers on his maikzirbes33 Instagram account.
He quit soccer at age 12 to play basketball. He then signed on with TBB at the age of 17.
He played with the German Junior National Teams at the U18 European Championships in 2008 and 2010, winning Most Valuable Player of the German youth league NBBL for the 2008-2009 season.
He got his grandparents' wedding photo tattooed to his arm.
He and Dirk Nowitzki are both basketball players from Germany.
