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Professional basketball team in Oldenburg, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baskets Oldenburg,[2] for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional basketball club that is based in the city of Oldenburg, Germany. The club plays in the Bundesliga. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an electric utility company. The club's home arena is the Große EWE Arena.
| EWE Baskets Oldenburg | |||
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| Leagues | BBL | ||
| Founded | 2001 | ||
| History | Oldenburger TB 1954–2001 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2001–present | ||
| Arena | Large EWE Arena (occasional games at the Small EWE Arena) | ||
| Capacity | 6,069 | ||
| Location | Oldenburg, Germany | ||
| Team colors | Blue, yellow[1] | ||
| President | Hermann Schüller Gerold Lange | ||
| Head coach | Pedro Calles | ||
| Affiliation(s) | EWE Baskets Juniors | ||
| Championships | 1 German Championship 1 German Cup 1 German Supercup | ||
| Retired numbers | 4 (6, 8, 14, 23) | ||
| Website | www | ||
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The EWE Baskets Oldenburg club's origins began in the year 1954, as the basketball department of the Oldenburger TB sports club. 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, during the next season of 2009–10.[3]
In 2015, they won the German Cup title, while being host to the Cup Final Four. In the Cup Semi-final, Oldenburg beat Bonn, by a score of 71–77, and in the Cup Final, the team was too strong for Bamberg, as they beat them by a score of 70–72.[4]
Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,000 seat Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.
Total titles:
| EWE Baskets Oldenburg retired numbers[5] | ||||
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| No. | Nat. | Player | Position | Tenure |
| 6 |  | Daniel Strauch | PF | 2003–2010 |
| 8 |  | Pavel Bečka | C | 1995–2004 |
| 2006 | ||||
| 14 |  | Tyron McCoy | SG | 2001–2007 |
| 23 | | Rickey Paulding | SF | 2007–2022 |
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Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Steven Hutchinson
Elvir Ovčina
Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje Pavel Bečka
Felipe López
Kristaps Valters
Aron Baynes Josh Carter Terrel Castle Bill Edwards
D'or Fischer Je'Kel Foster Jason Gardner Anthony Grundy Dan Grunfeld Chris Kramer Scott Machado Tyron McCoy Rickey Paulding Desmond Penigar Doron Perkins Bobby Brown Julius Jenkins
Carl Krauser
Vojdan Stojanovski
The traditional colors of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg basketball club are yellow and blue. From 2009 to 2018, the team adopted a slightly reworked logo, this time with a white background and which again featured an eagle.[6] 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.[7]
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