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Baskets Oldenburg, for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional
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club that is based in the city of
Oldenburg Oldenburg may also refer to: Places * Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica *Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany **Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony * Ol ...
, Germany. The club plays in the
Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...
. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an
electric utility An electric utility, or a power company, is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility) that engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. Electric utilities are ...
company. The club's home arena is the Große EWE Arena.


History

The EWE Baskets Oldenburg club's origins began in the year 1954, as the basketball department of the
Oldenburger TB EWE Baskets Juniors, also Oldenburger TB, is a professional basketball team that is based in Oldenburg, Germany. The club's full name is Oldenburger Turnerbund. The team is a part of the bigger Basketball Bundesliga team EWE Baskets Oldenburg, and ...
sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
. In the year 2001, the basketball department of Oldenburger TB formed a new separate club, called EWE Baskets Oldenburg. The Oldenburger TB team then started to function as the development team of EWE Baskets. In the 2008–09 season, EWE Baskets Oldenburg achieved their greatest success, by winning the German League championship title. As German Champion, Oldenburg won the right to play in the
EuroLeague The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier and the most prestigious men's basketball league in Europe. The league consists of 20 teams, of which 16 are given lon ...
, during the next season of 2009–10. In 2015, they won the
German Cup The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English, is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundes ...
title, while being host to the Cup Final Four. In the Cup Semi-final, Oldenburg beat
Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...
, by a score of 71–77, and in the Cup Final, the team was too strong for
Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main (river), Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in ...
, as they beat them by a score of 70–72.


Arenas

Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,200 seat Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.


Honors

Total titles:


Domestic competitions

*
Basketball Bundesliga The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: ''Federal Basketball League''), for sponsorship reasons named easyCredit BBL, is the German basketball league system, highest level Sports league, league of professional club basketball in German ...
**Champions: 2008–09 ***Runners-up:
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, 2016–17 *
BBL-Pokal Basketball Bundesliga-Pokal, commonly known as the BBL-Pokal, is the annual national basketball cup competition in Germany. Since 2009, the competition has been conducted only between the top-ranked clubs of each Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). His ...
**Champions:
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*
BBL Champions Cup The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) Champions Cup is an inactive men's professional basketball game in Germany, which is comparable to other super cup games. The Basketball Bundesliga champion plays the game against the BBL-Pokal winner. Usually, the ...
**Champions: 2009
2. Basketball Bundesliga The 2. Basketball Bundesliga was the second level Sports league, league of the German basketball league system, German professional basketball league system. Until the 2007–08 season, the ''2. Basketball Bundesliga'' was replaced by two geographi ...
*Champions: 1987, 1998, 2000


European competitions

*
FIBA EuroChallenge FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run by FIBA Europe. It is not to be confus ...
**Third place:
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Players


Retired numbers


Current roster


Individual awards

* BBL Most Valuable Player **
Jason Gardner Jason Corey Gardner (born November 14, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player and currently a player relations director at the University of Arizona. Gardner is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, playing his high school bal ...
– 2009 **
Will Cummings William Frederick Cummings (born October 7, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for Galatasaray of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball for Temple. High school career Cummings, a point guard from Jackso ...
– 2019 * BBL Finals MVP ** Rickey Paulding – 2009 * All-BBL First Team **
Jason Gardner Jason Corey Gardner (born November 14, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player and currently a player relations director at the University of Arizona. Gardner is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, playing his high school bal ...
– 2008, 2009 ** Rickey Paulding – 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016 **
Brian Qvale Brian Arthur Qvale ( ; born November 3, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Toyotsu Fighting Eagles Nagoya of the Japan - B2 League. He played college basketball for the University of Montana before moving to Eu ...
– 2016 **
Chris Kramer Christopher Scott Kramer (כריס קרמר; born April 4, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball with the Purdue University Boilermakers. Kramer participated with the 2010 Milwaukee Bucks train ...
– 2017 * All-BBL Second Team **
Tyron McCoy Clement Tyron McCoy (born November 20, 1972) is an American professional basketball coach, and former professional basketball player. At a height of , he played at the shooting guard position. Playing career High school McCoy attended and playe ...
– 2005 **
Je'Kel Foster Je'Kel Reshard Foster (born July 22, 1983) is an American professional basketball player for Benfica do Libolo of the BIC Basket. College Foster began his studies at Howard Junior College in Big Spring, Texas. After a year, his basketball coach ...
– 2010 **
Adam Chubb Adam Edward Chubb (born July 5, 1981) is an American former basketball player. Chubb was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a dual athlete: basketball and track and fi ...
– 2013 ** Julius Jenkins – 2014 ** Vaughn Duggins – 2016 ** Rickey Paulding – 2017 **
Brian Qvale Brian Arthur Qvale ( ; born November 3, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Toyotsu Fighting Eagles Nagoya of the Japan - B2 League. He played college basketball for the University of Montana before moving to Eu ...
– 2017


Notable players


Season by season


Colors and logos

The traditional colors of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg basketball club are
yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In t ...
and
blue Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB color model, RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB color model, RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between Violet (color), violet and cyan on the optical spe ...
. From 2009 to 2018, the team adopted a slightly reworked logo, this time with a white background and which again featured an
eagle Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family of the Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of Genus, genera, some of which are closely related. True eagles comprise the genus ''Aquila ( ...
. In 2018, the club adopted its massively modernized current logo, now round and with a different shade of blue. The eagle however is still on it. EWE Baskets logo 2009.gif, Logo used from 2004 to 2009 EWE Baskets Oldenburg logo.svg, Logo used from 2018 until today


References


External links

*
Eurobasket.com team profile
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