club Valencia Basket. On August 1, 2018, he signed a two (1+1) year contract with the Turkish club Anadolu Efes S.K.. On July 12, 2020, Pleiß officially renewed his contract with Efes for another three (2+1) seasons. German national team Pleiß was a member of the junior national teams of Germany. He played for the German junior national teams at the 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship and at both the 2008 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B and the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. Pleiß is also a member of the senior men's German national basketball team. He first played for the senior team at EuroBasket 2009, and saw action in three games. He was also in the German team that participated in the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey, where he was the starting center for Germany. He also played at the EuroBasket 2011 and the EuroBasket 2013. Career statistics EuroLeague |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2010–11 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2| Brose Baskets | 10 || 10 || 19.1 || .413 || .444 || .789 || 6.3 || .9 || .1 || 1.5 || 6.7 || 8.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2011–12 | 10 || 4 || 18.5 || .500 || .000 || .682 || 5.4 || .4 || .0 || .8 || 6.5 || 8.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2| Baskonia | 25 || 4 || 14.2 || .607 || .333 || .846 || 3.9 || .2 || .2 || .6 || 5.0 || 6.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14 | 24 || 21 || 21.0 || .557 || .333 || .863 || 5.4 || .5 || .5 || 1.0 || 12.0 || 13.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15 | style="text-align:left;"| Barcelona | 25 || 1 || 13.1 || .584 || .500 || .848 || 3.9 || .2 || .2 || .6 || 5.3 || 6.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17 | style="text-align:left;"| Galatasaray | 28 || 20 || 17.1 || .567 || .400 || .765 || 4.6 || .5 || .2 || 1.2 || 7.7 || 10.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18 | style="text-align:left;"| Valencia | 29 || 14 || 19.3 || .565 || .500 || .797 || 5.2 || .6 || .4 || 1.1 || 10.1 || 12.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19 | style="text-align:left;"| Efes Pilsen | 37 || 5 || 14.2 || .623 || .333 || .878 || 3.7 || .4 || .4 || .5 || 8.1 || 9.6 |- class="sortbottom"