Beşiktaş Basketbol, for sponsorship reasons Beşiktaş Emlakjet is a Turkish professional

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team from the city of

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. The team formed in 1967 as the basketball section of

Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (), also known simply as Beşiktaş (), is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903 that is based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. The club's football team is one of the Big Three in Turkey and one of the most ...

, which was founded in 1903. The team competes in the

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and in the

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History

The club's men's basketball section started out in the year 1967 and since then, Beşiktaş has played in the first

, in every season, except in the 1988–89 season, due to their

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to the

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after the 1987–88 season. The club won the Turkish Basketball Super League, under the management of and Tom Davis, in the 1974–75 season. In October 2010, Beşiktaş announced the biggest transfer in the history of the club's basketball department, with the signing of the former NBA

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. Iverson signed a 2-year $4 million

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contract. In July 2011,

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of the

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, announced he would play for Beşiktaş, due to the 2011 NBA lockout. His $5 million net income contract included a clause that would enable him to return to the NBA during the regular season, if an agreement was made between the owners and players association. When the lockout finished, Williams was replaced by

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. Arroyo led the team to the

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title in February 2012. In April 2012, the team won the 3rd-tier level EuroChallenge Final against

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. After the EuroChallenge championship, the team won the Turkish Basketball Super League Finals against

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. On September 30, 2012, the team won the Turkish President's Cup against Anadolu Efes.

Sponsorship naming

Beşiktaş has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship; * Beşiktaş Cola Turka: 2005–2011 * Beşiktaş Milangaz: 2011–2012 * Beşiktaş

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: 2013–2015 * Beşiktaş

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: 2015–2020 * Beşiktaş Icrypex: 2021–2022 * Beşiktaş Emlakjet: 2022–present

Players

Retired numbers

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Erman Kunter Erman Kunter (born 8 October 1956) is a Turkish-French former professional basketball player and coach. He most recently served as head coach of Galatasaray, of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). He is well-known for being the player th ...

* Haluk Yıldırım * Ufuk Sarıca *

Sertaç Şanlı Sertaç Şanlı (born 5 August 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He plays at the center position. Professional career He made his professional debut in the TB2L with G ...

* Efe Aydan * Engin Atsür *

Kaya Peker Kaya Peker (born August 2, 1980) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player. He played at the center position. Professional career During his club career, Peker first played with the Turkish Super League clubs Pınar Karşıyaka and Ef ...

Kerem Tunçeri Mehmet Kerem Tunçeri (born 14 April 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player who played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.He is 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) in height and 86 kg (190 lbs.) in weight. Nati ...

Levent Topsakal Mete Levent Topsakal (born 9 June 1966) is a former professional basketball player from Turkey and currently assistant manager of Turkey national basketball team. He played as a point and shooting guard at height 1,90 m. External linksTurkSports ...

* Kenan Sipahi *

Ömer Büyükaycan Ömer Büyükaycan (born 10 May 1966 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. He is 2.08 m and played power forward for the Turkey national basketball team over 130 times. He also attended Loyola University Chicago ...

Serhat Çetin Serhat Çetin (born 23 February 1986) is a Turkish professional basketball player, who lastly played for CSO Voluntari of the Liga Națională. Standing at , he mainly plays the small forward position but he also has the ability to play as a sh ...

Semih Erden Semih Erden (born July 28, 1986) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Türk Telekom of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Standing at , he plays at the center position. Professional career Early years Erden played with Darüşşafaka in ...

* Erkan Veyseloğlu *

Sinan Güler Sinan Güler (born November 8, 1983) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. College career Güler played college basketball at Salt Lake Community College ( JUCO), from 2002 to 2004, and at Carroll College ( NAIA), from 2004 to 2006 ...

Tamer Oyguç Tamer Oyguç (born January 11, 1966 in Malatya Turkey) is a former Turkish professional basketball player. He finished his Army Duty in Ankara (Etimesgut) as a player of Karagücü National Team. He has 2nd division winner at this team. He spent ...

Barış Hersek Barış Hersek (born 26 March 1988) is a Turkish professional basketball who last played for Lokman Hekim Fethiye Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi. He plays at the power forward position. Professional career Hersek started his ...

Kartal Özmızrak Kartal Özmızrak (born 29 August 1995) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and Basketball Champions League. Professional career Kartal was a product of Beşiktaş youth system ...

Alperen Şengün Alperen Şengün (born 25 July 2002) is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the senior Turkish national team. He is widely considered to be one of th ...

* Şehmus Hazer *

Egemen Güven Akif Egemen Güven (born 25 September 1996) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the BSL. Turkish national team He is a regular Turkish youth national team player. Güven won three straight championships durin ...

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* Ratko Varda *

Damir Markota Damir Markota (born December 26, 1985 as Damir Omerhodžić) is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Dinamo in the Croatian League. Standing at , he plays at the power forward position. Professional career Markota, b ...

Sandro Nicević Sandro Nicević (born June 16, 1976 in Pula, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Croatian professional basketball player, who last played for Orlandina Basket in the Italian Serie A. Professional career Nicević started playing basketball ...

Erik Murphy Erik Murphy (born October 26, 1990) is a French-born Finnish-American professional basketball player for the Fukushima Firebonds of the Japanese B.League. Drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2013, he also represents the Finnish national team. High s ...

Robin Benzing Robin Clemens Benzing (born 1 May 1989) is a German professional basketball player for Fortitudo Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He is also a member of the Germany national basketball team. Standing at , he plays at the small for ...

Pops Mensah-Bonsu Nana Papa Yaw "Pops" Mensah-Bonsu (born 7 September 1983) is a British basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball for George Washington University and professionally for five NBA teams as well as clubs in Spain, France, ...

Kimani Ffriend Kimani Ffriend (born 29 July 1977) is Jamaican former professional basketball player. He played at the center position. College career Ffriend played NCAA college basketball with the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1999 to 2001. Prior that, Ffriend ...

* Virginijus Praškevičius * Gediminas Orelik * Predrag Drobnjak * Maciej Lampe * Michał Sokołowski *

* Larry Ayuso * Rick Apodaca *

Fedor Likholitov Fedor Likholitov (russian: Фёдор Лихолитов; born March 14, 1980) is a Russian former professional basketball player. He is a power forward – center who most recently played for Krasny Oktyabr in VTB United League. College caree ...

Vladimir Štimac Vladimir Štimac ( sr, Владимир Штимац, born August 25, 1987) is a Serbian professional basketball player who most recently played for the Ningbo Rockets of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He also represented the Serbian ...

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* Jo Jo English *

Khalid El-Amin Khalid El-Amin (born April 25, 1979) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a member of the 1999 University of Connecticut men's basketball team that won the NCAA championship. He is originally from Minnesota where he played ...

Donnell Harvey Donnell Eugene Harvey (born August 26, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player. He previously played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New Jersey Nets, Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Orlando Magic, an ...

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D. J. Strawberry Darryl Eugene "D. J." Strawberry Jr. (born June 15, 1985) is an American-born naturalized Cameroonian professional basketball player for Zamalek SC Basketball, Zamalek SC of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. He is the son of former Major League ...

Isaiah Whitehead Isaiah Whitehead (born March 8, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for Beşiktaş Emlakjet of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball for Seton Hall. High school career Whitehead rose to prominence playing ...

Head coaches

* Cavit Altunay: 1967–70 * Aydan Siyavuş: 1970–71 * Ünal Büyükaycan: 1971–73 * Cavit Altunay: 1973–74 * Ateş Çubukçu / Tom Davis: 1974–75 * Ateş Çubukçu / Tom Davis / Tanju Feyzioğlu: 1975 * Mehmet Baturalp: 1975–79 * Fehmi Sadıkoğlu: 1979–85 * Hurşit Baytok: 1985–86 * Aydan Siyavuş: 1986–87 * Hurşit Baytok: 1987–89 * İren İmre: 1989–90 * Mehmet Baturalp: 1990–91 * İren İmre: 1991–93 * Hakan Yavuz: 1993–94 * Cem Akdağ: 1994–95 * Tolga Tuğsavul: 1995–96 *

: 1996–97 *

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: 1997–03 * İhsan Bayülken: 2003–05 * Burak Bıyıktay: 2005 * Murat Didin: 2005–07 * Ufuk Sarıca: 2007 *

Ergin Ataman Halil Ergin Ataman (born January 7, 1966) is a Turkish professional basketball coach. He is the current head coach of Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He also coaches the Turkey men's national basketball team. During ...

: 2007–08 * Hakan Demir: 2008–09 * Burak Bıyıktay: 2009–11 *

: 2011–12 *

: 2012–13 *

: 2013–15 *

Henrik Dettmann Henrik Dettmann (born 5 April 1958) is a Finnish professional basketball coach who last served as head coach of the French LNB Pro A team SIG Strasbourg and the Finnish national basketball team. He was the head coach of German national basketball ...

: 2015–16 * Yağızer Uluğ: 2016 * Ufuk Sarıca: 2016–18 * Duško Ivanović: 2018–20 * Burak Bıyıktay: 2020 *

: 2020–2022 *

Igor Miličić Igor Miličić (born June 9, 1976) is a Croatian-Polish professional basketball coach and former player who currently serves as head coach for Napoli Basket of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the Poland men's national basketball team. ...

: 2022–present

Honours

National competitions

: **

Winner (2): 1975,

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** Runners-up (7): 1972, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1983,

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: **

Winner (1):

** Runners-up (3): 1971, 1973, 2011 * Turkish President's Cup ** WikiCup Trophy Gold

Winner (1): 2012 ** Runner-up (1): 1987

European competitions

* EuroCup: **Quarter-final (1):

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* EuroChallenge: ** Trophy(transp)

Winner (1):

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: **Quarter-final (1):

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FIBA Europe League FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...

: **Quarter-final (1): 2013

Season by season

: Cancelled due to the

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References

External links

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