The Associação Bauru Basketball Team, commonly known as Bauru Basquete (Bauru Basket), is a Brazilian professional

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team that is based in

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. The club plays Brazil's top-tier level league, the

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(NBB). Founded in 1994, Bauru has won two NBB championships, in 2002 and 2016. They also won the continental championship once when they won the

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. Bauru was the runner-up in the 2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup. The team plays its home games in the Ginásio Panela de Pressão, which has capacity for 2,000 people. Bauru is known for being the second club of Leandrinho Barbosa.

Crests and colors

Bauru_basketb_logo.png, The club's official logo –2016. Bauru Basket logo.png, The club's official logo 2016–present.

History

Bauru was the second team of the Brazilian

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Leandrinho Barbosa. Barbosa was an important player during the previous top-tier level Nacional Championship, in 2002. In that year, Bauru won the championship title, after winning a series against

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. Barbosa and his teammates

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, Murilo Becker, Vanderlei, and others, won the series by a 3–0 score. In the new Brazilian top-tier league, the NBB's first season ( 2008–09), Bauru signed the American Brazilian

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. In the NBB's fourth season ( 2011–12), Taylor, helped by the young player Gui Deodato, the experienced Fernando Fischer, and another American, Jeff Agba, led the team to a sixth place finish in the league. Bauru won its first

championship, as they won the 2015 FIBA Americas League. The club was thus crowned the

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n champions for the first time. Because of the Americas League victory, the team would then play in the 2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, against the

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's 2014–15 season champions,

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. Bauru Basket has also won three São Paulo State Championships. Bauru reached even bigger heights, when it was announced that the team would be a part of the 2015–16 NBA preseason's international versus NBA games. Bauru played against the

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clubs, the

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and the

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in the

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, becoming the third Brazilian team to play against NBA teams, after C.R. Vasco da Gama and C.R. Flamengo. In the 2016–17 NBB season, after two consecutive losses in the NBB's finals, Bauru finally became the Brazilian League champions once again, by winning the title for the first time in 15 years. They won the title, after coming back from a 2-0 series deficit, to beat C.A. Paulistano, in a 5 games series. Bauru's Alex Garcia, was named the NBB Finals MVP.

Honors and titles

Worldwide

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:Runners-up (1):

Latin America

:Champions (1):

:Runners-up (1):

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Continental

* South American League :Champions (2):

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* South American Club Championship :Runners-up (1): 1999

National

* Brazilian Championship :Champions (2): 2002, 2016–17 :''Runners-up (2):'' 2014–15, 2015–16

Regional

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:Champions (3): 1999, 2013, 2014"É tricampeão! Paschoalotto/Bauru conquista mais um título no Campeonato Paulista de Basquete ". Jornal da Cidade. November 14, 2014

. Access in November 17, 2014. :''Runners-up (2):'' 2000, 2016

Other tournaments

* Troféu Cláudio Mortari :Winners (2): 2015, 2016 * Torneo Interligas de Básquet, Torneio Interligas: 2019 * Copa TV TEM: 2008 * Copa EPTV: 2010

Matches against NBA teams

Players

Current roster (season 2022-23)

Notable players

* Leandrinho Barbosa * Murilo Becker *

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* Maury de Souza * Josuel dos Santos * Alex Garcia *

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Head coaches

* Jorge "Guerrinha" Guerra * Demétrius Conrado Ferraciú * Paulo Jáu

References

External links

Official website

Latinbasket.com team Profile
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