Club Baloncesto Lucentum Alicante is a professional

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. Lucentum Alicante played in

Liga ACB The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administered by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, w ...

for the last time in 2012, after selling its place in the league to

CB Canarias Club Cantera Base 1939 Canarias Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D., commonly known as CB Canarias and known as La Laguna Tenerife for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team that is based in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, La Laguna, ...

. In August 2015, due to its financial problems, it gave its place in

LEB Plata The Segunda FEB, formerly known as LEB 2 and LEB Plata, is the third basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system and the second basketball division organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation. Since 2019, three teams are promote ...

to the

Fundación Lucentum Baloncesto Fundación Lucentum Baloncesto Alicante, also known as HLA Alicante for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Alicante, Valencian Community. History The club was founded on 17 June 2015 with the aim to save the basketball ...

, created two months before to save the basketball of the city.

Sponsorship naming

Lucentum Alicante has had several sponsorship names during its history: *Ernesto Electrodomésticos 1994–1996 *Proaguas Costablanca 2000–2001 *Etosa Alicante 2002–2007 *Alicante Costablanca 2007–2008 *Meridiano Alicante 2009–2011

Team logos

Image:CB Lucentum-Alicante.jpg, Non commercial logo Image:MerAlicante.jpg, 2009–2011

Players

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

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: (2) **

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* Copa Príncipe: (2) **2002, 2009 * Lliga Valenciana: (3) **2004, 2006, 2011

Individual awards

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– 2004

Notable former players

Numerous NBA players played at CB Lucentum before or after their NBA career. In 2020, local newspaper Diario Información listed some of the best ever CB Lucentum players. *

Lucio Angulo Lucio Angulo Espinosa (born 9 April 1973 in Zaragoza, Spain) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player. He is a 2.00 m (6 ft 6 ¾ in) tall small forward. Professional career Angulo won the Liga ACB, Spanish League championship, whi ...

* José Manuel Calderón * Iñaki de Miguel * Oriol Junyent * Pedro Llompart * Nacho Rodríguez *

Txemi Urtasun José Miguel "Txemi" Urtasun Uriz (born April 30, 1984) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Ourense of the LEB Oro. He is a tall shooting guard. His twin brother, Álex Urtasun, is also a professional basketball player. Professiona ...

Carlos Cazorla Carlos Cazorla Medina (born December 7, 1977, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a retired Spanish basketball player, playing the small forward position. Clubs * Saski Baskonia – Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto, ACB (Spain) – 1993–1998 ...

* Guillermo Rejón * Pepe Sánchez *

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* Martin Keane *

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Mindaugas Katelynas Mindaugas Katelynas (born 16 May 1983) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. Playing career Born in Alytus, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union, Katelynas grew up with Alytus youth basketball team. In 2001 ...

Martynas Andriuškevičius Martynas Andriuškevičius (; born March 12, 1986) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He is a 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) tall and 113 kg (250 lb) center (basketball), center. Andriuškevičius has noted perimeter skill ...

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* Larry Lewis *

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Marlon Maxey Marlon Lee Maxey (born February 19, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player. During his playing career, at a height of 6'8 " (2.05 m) tall, and a weight of 250 lbs. (113 kg), Maxey, who was born in Chicago, Illinois ...

* Amal McCaskill *

Quincy Lewis Quincy Lavell Lewis (born June 26, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player who last played with the pro club Iurbentia Bilbao Basket in Spain. He currently works as an analyst for Fox Sports North, covering the Minnesota Ti ...

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Darryl Middleton Darryl Bryan Middleton (born July 21, 1966) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for Girona of the Liga ACB. Standing at , he played at the power forward position. He holds the record for being the oldes ...

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* Kaloyan Ivanov

References

External links

CB Lucentum Alicante Official Website

Lucentum Lucentum (, ''Loúkenton''), called Lucentia by Pomponius Mela, is the Roman Empire, Roman predecessor of the city of Alicante, Spain. Particularly, it refers to the archaeological site in which the remains of this ancient settlement lie, at a pl ...

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