PS Karlsruhe Lions

PS Karlsruhe Lions is a German professional basketball team located in Karlsruhe. The team competes in Germany's ProA league, the country's second division. In 2017, the team promoted from the third tier ProB to the second tier.^[1] The team is part of the multi-sports club Post Südstadt Karlsruhe (PSK).

PS Karlsruhe Lions
Leagues	ProA
Founded	1961; 63 years ago (1961)
Arena	Europahalle
Capacity	3,500
Location	Karlsruhe, Germany
President	Danijel Ljubić
Head coach	Aleksandar Scepanovic
Website	psk-lions.de
Home Away

PS Karlsruhe Lions in December 2018

PS Karlsruhe Lions home game in December 2018

As of 2024, the team has been the reigning champion of the German ProA league.

History

Basketball has been played at PSK in the southern Karlsruhe district of Weiherfeld-Dammerstock since 1961. In the following decades, the department celebrated numerous regional and national successes. In 2016, the PS Karlsruhe Lions had four men's teams and two women's teams registered for play. In addition, there were numerous youth teams from U10 to U18. Until 2016, there was a cooperation with BG Karlsruhe, which had emerged in 1993 from the basketball departments of PSK and its neighboring club, FC Südstern. Due to the promotion of the first men's team of the PS Karlsruhe Lions to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB, the cooperation was terminated in May 2016, as both teams competed in the same league in the 2016/17 season. The first Karlsruhe women's team played in the Regionalliga Südwest.

On 7 April 2024, the Lions' Lachlan Dent set a ProA league record for 3-poniters made in a single game as he hit 10 in the game vs. Paderborn Baskets.^[2]

Arenas

Until 2017, the club played in the Friedrich-List-Schule, which had a capacity of 862 people. In the 2017–18 season, following the club's promotion to the ProA, the Lions started playing in the Europahalle Karlsruhe which has a capacity of 1,500 people. In 2020, they moved to the Lina-Radke-Halle. (1,500 seats)

For the 2024-25 season, the Lions returned to the Europahalle with an anticipated capacity of 3,500 visitors.^[3]

Honors

ProA

• Champions: 2023–24

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

PS Karlsruhe LIONS roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 1 Herzog, Lukas 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 23 – (2001-09-10)10 September 2001 SF 3 Ndi, Elijah 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 92 kg (203 lb) 20 – (2004-09-02)2 September 2004 PG 4 Williams, O'Showen  1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 83 kg (183 lb) 27 – (1997-10-22)22 October 1997 PG 7 Dent, Lachlan 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 81 kg (179 lb) 24 – (2000-02-01)1 February 2000 PG 8 Pisic, Pavle 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 19 – (2005-09-08)8 September 2005 C 11 Tunstall Jr, Dennis  2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 27 – (1997-03-02)2 March 1997 PF 12 Jostmann, Melvin 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 92 kg (203 lb) 24 – (2000-07-12)12 July 2000 SG 14 Ani, Jesse Chidera  1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 94 kg (207 lb) 22 – (2002-01-27)27 January 2002 PF 17 Haarmann, Terry Kodjo-Torgbe 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 20 – (2004-08-02)2 August 2004 SG 18 Mäntynen, Joel 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 89 kg (196 lb) 22 – (2002-01-13)13 January 2002 SG 20 Albus, Julian 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 32 – (1992-05-20)20 May 1992 SG 23 Miller, Michael Jordan  1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 89 kg (196 lb) 27 – (1997-06-18)18 June 1997 C 74 Pluskota, Maurice Marko 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) 113 kg (249 lb) 32 – (1992-05-30)30 May 1992 PF 77 Kigab, Abu 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 26 – (1998-11-03)3 November 1998	Head coach Aleksandar Scepanovic Assistant coach(es) Aleksandar Nadjfeji Andrew Michael Sauer Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 1 December 2024

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Cup
2013–14	5	2. Regionalliga	2nd
2014–15	5	2. Regionalliga	1st
2015–16	4	1. Regionalliga	1st
2016–17	3	ProB	2nd
2017–18	2	ProA	3rd
2018–19	2	ProA	8th
2019–20	2	ProA	15th
2020–21	2	ProA	11th
2021–22	2	ProA	7th
2022–23	2	ProA	3rd
2023–24	2	ProA	1st	First round
2024–25	2	ProA		First round

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

• Horst Wolf
• Lachlan Dent
• Roland Nyama
• Darko Bajo
• Ivan Karačić
• Adam Pechacek
• Bakary Dibba
• Carl Ona-Embo
• Bazoumana Kone
• Lovell Cabbil
• Greg Foster
• Justin Gordon
• Richard Williams

Head coaches

• Michael Mai (2017–2018)
• Ivan Rudež (2018–2020)
• Drazan Salavarda (2020–2021)
• Aleksandar Scepanovic (2021–present)

References

1. Endstand 92:75: PSK Lions steigen in die zweite Bundesliga auf regio-news.de, 23 April 2017. Accessed 16 June 2017. (in German)
2. Lachlan Dent wirft sich in die Geschichtsbücher: PS Karlsruhe Lions feiern ihren König der Löwen Moritz Hirn (Badische Neueste Nachrichten), 10 April 2024. Accessed 24 September 2024.(in German)
3. Moritz Hirn (30 January 2024). "Rückkehr mit erstklassigen Zielen: PSK Lions spielen bald wieder in der Karlsruher Europahalle". Badische Neueste Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2024.

External links

• Presentation at league website