Career
Standing at 6 ft 5 in (196 m), he plays at the shooting guard position. He played collegiate basketball for Iowa State University. Staiger was one of the top junior players in Germany.
He led his high school team to the 2005 German High School Championship while averaging 24.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 6.2 assists.
He spent his senior season at Decatur Christian High School in Illinois, averaging 13.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game en route to being selected to play in the Illinois Premier Basketball High School All-Star Game. As a high school player, he also competed with the German national basketball team at the 2005 International Basketball Federation Europe Under-18 Championship and 2006 International Basketball Federation Europe Under-20 Championship.
Staiger was declared ineligible for his freshman season with the Cyclones and was forced to sit out the entire season and lose a year of eligibility. He came back strong during his sophomore season, averaging 8.2 points and 24 minutes per game, while slowly becoming a larger part of the rotation throughout the season.
He scored a career high 24 points in an early season loss to Drake University while hitting eight three-pointers.
He was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week twice during the season. Following the season, he competed with the senior German national basketball team for the first time at Eurobasket 2009. He averaged 5 points per game over the team"s six games, including a team-high 14 in the team"s second round game versus Macedonia.
On January 19, 2010, Lucca Staiger announced he was leaving Iowa State, effective immediately, to pursue a professional career in Europe.
Coming out of the college, he joined the German BBL team ALBA Berlin. After just one year, on June 25, 2013, it was announced that he would be joining Bayern Munich.
On July 8, 2015, he signed a contract with Brose Baskets.