SG Braunschweig was a

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club based in

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History

The team was formed in

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as a cooperation between the basketball sections of the clubs FT Braunschweig and MTV Braunschweig. The first name of the club was ''SG FT/MTV Braunschweig''. In 1990-91 they won the 2. Basketball Bundesliga and earned promotion to the Bundesliga. In 2000–01 the club passed its

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license to the newly founded team Metabox Braunschweig (now known as Basketball Löwen Braunschweig), and since then functions as a

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for the Bundesliga side. From 2007 on, the team competed under the name ''Spot Up Medien Baskets Braunschweig'' for sponsorship reasons. In 2014, the name was changed into ''DRUFF! Baskets Braunschweig''. From 2007 to 2015, SG Braunschweig played in the

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league, the German third division. After the 2014–15, the club sold its ProB license to the

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. Instead, the club entered into a cooperation with MTV Herzöge Wolfenbüttel.Kooperation mit Basketball Löwen und SG Braunschweig
accessed: 22 May 2015. Both clubs will field a joined ProB team from 2015 on, which will play in

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, while SG Braunschweig will continue to operate its own youth teams. On September 13, 2015, SG Braunschweig announced that they withdrew from the 5th tier 2. Regionalliga Nord-West.

Season by season

Notable former players

* Stephen Arigbabu * Peter Fehse * Dennis Schröder (3 seasons: 2010–13) * Daniel Theis * Robin Smeulders (2 seasons: 2004–06) *

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(1 season: 1998–99) * Scooter Barry * Steven Key * Zackary Wright * Štefan Svitek *

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.justnow-sg.de/ Braunschweig, SG Braunschweig, SG Basketball Löwen Braunschweig Sport in Braunschweig Braunschweig, SG Organisations based in Braunschweig 1978 establishments in West Germany Basketball in West Germany