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BG Charlottenburg
Alba Berlin is a German professional basketball club that is based in Berlin, Germany. The club was founded in 1991, and is today the largest German national basketball club by membership figures. Alba Berlin hosts its home games at the Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin and competes in the German League and the EuroLeague or the EuroCup. After winning ten German Championships, ten German Cups, three German Supercups, and the FIBA Korać Cup in 1995, Alba Berlin is considered to be the most successful German basketball team, both domestically and internationally. With an average attendance of more than 10,000 fans per game in a season, it is also one of the most popular basketball clubs in Europe. In 2013, Alba was portrayed in the ESPN documentary series ''Basketball Capitals''. In 2014, the club was the first German basketball team to beat a reigning NBA champion, the San Antonio Spurs. History 1991–2000: Foundation and first championships Alba Berlin traces its history back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: ''Federal Basketball League''), for sponsorship reasons named easyCredit BBL, is the highest level league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage. At the end of the league stage, the top eight teams qualify for the playoff stage, and the teams positioned in the 17th and 18th places are relegated to a lower-tier league. The playoffs are played in a "Best of five" format. The winning team of the final round are crowned the German Champions of that season. In addition to the league competition, all BBL teams compete for the German Basketball Cup. Teams playing in the second league (ProA or ProB), or in a lower level Regionalliga, are also eligible to participate in the BBL-Cup. There are always 3 knock-out rounds that are played for the BBL-Cup. If more teams from the leagues below the BBL level apply for participation, then available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of NBA Champions
The National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals is the championship series for the NBA held at the conclusion of its postseason. All Finals have been played in a best-of-seven format, and are contested between the winners of the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference (formerly Divisions before 1970), except in when the Eastern Division champion faced the winner between the Western and Central Division champions. From 1946 through 1949, when the league was known as the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the playoffs were a three-stage tournament where the two semifinal winners played each other in the finals. The winning team of the series receives the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. The current home-and-away format in the NBA Finals is 2–2–1–1–1 (the team with the better regular-season record plays on its home court in Games 1, 2, 5, and 7), which has been used in –, –, –, –, –, –, and –present. It was previously in a 2–3–2 format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artland Dragons
QTSV Quakenbrück, representing its professional team as Artland Dragons, is a basketball club based in Quakenbrück, Germany. Their home arena was the Artland Arena, which has room for 3,000 spectators. From 2003 till 2015 the club played in the Basketball Bundesliga and in several European competitions. On May 3, 2015, the team announced that it would fold. Ultimately, the management decided to continue operations in the third tier Bundesliga ProB. History Basketball has a long tradition in Quakenbrück. It was first played in the Artland-Gymnasium school. The basketball section of the sports club QTSV Quakenbrück was established in 1955. In the 1970s, the first men's team got their first achievement, by being promoted to the second German League, where they stayed for three seasons. After a long time without great success, Günter 'Ice' Kollmann, former German basketball player and junior national team member, supported the QTSV team as a main sponsor. By continuous work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saša Obradović
Saša Obradović (Anglicized: Sasha Obradovic; sr-Cyrl, Саша Обрадовић, ; born 29 January 1969) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for AS Monaco of the French LNB Pro A Standing at , he played in the guard position for Crvena zvezda, Limoges, Alba Berlin, Pallacanestro Virtus Roma, Virtus Roma, KK Budućnost, Budućnost, and Köln 99ers, RheinEnergie Köln. During his playing career, he won FIBA Korać Cup in 1994–95 FIBA Korać Cup, 1995, three YUBA League championships and a Yugoslav Basketball Cup, Yugoslav Cup, as well as Basketball Bundesliga, German League title and three German Basketball Cup, German Cup tournaments. A Serbia men's national basketball team, Yugoslav international, Obradović won three EuroBasket, FIBA EuroBasket gold medals (1995 EuroBasket, 1995, 1997 EuroBasket, 1997, 2001 EuroBasket, 2001), and a bronze medal in 1999 EuroBasket, 1999. He also won the gold medal at the 1998 FIBA Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RheinEnergie Köln , formerly ''RheinEnergie Köln'', defunct basketball club
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RheinEnergie can refer to: *RheinEnergie AG, energy company based in Cologne * RheinEnergieStadion, sports stadium in Cologne *Köln 99ers Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henning Harnisch
Henning Harnisch (born April 15, 1968) is a retired German professional basketball player. At a height of 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) tall, he played at the small forward and power forward positions. He currently serves as Vice president for the German Basketball Bundesliga team Alba Berlin, and is in charge of Alba's youth program. In addition to that, he is the China ambassador for Alba Berlin. Professional career Harnisch played professional basketball for the German Basketball Bundesliga teams Gießen 46ers, Bayer Giants Leverkusen, and Alba Berlin. From 1990 to 1998, Harnisch won 9 German Basketball Championships in a row (7 with Leverkusen and 2 with Berlin), a record that has not yet been broken. Furthermore, Harnisch also won 5 German Cups (4 with Leverkusen and 1 with Berlin). Because of his spectacular slam dunks, Harnisch was known throughout his playing career, as the ''Flying Henning''. German national team As a member of the senior German national basketball team, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emir Mutapčić
Emir Mutapčić (born 27 May 1960) is a Bosnian professional basketball coach and former player. He currently works as the head coach for Zalaegerszeg of the Hungarian league. Mutapčić competed for Yugoslavia in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon .... He was the Israeli Premier League Assists Leader in 1990. References 1960 births Living people Forwards (basketball) Bosnia and Herzegovina men's basketball players Yugoslav men's basketball players KK Bosna Royal players Alba Berlin basketball coaches Alba Berlin players Basketball Löwen Braunschweig coaches Basketball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate basketball people in Germany Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate basketball people in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayer Giants Leverkusen
Bayer Giants Leverkusen is a professional basketball club, part of the TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. It currently plays in ProA, the second division of German basketball. Based on the number of titles, Leverkusen is the most successful team in the history of German Basketball. In 2009, the Bayer company cut down sponsorship and the club went down to Germany's ProB (third division) to restructure. The license for the Basketball Bundesliga was transferred to the newly formed Giants Düsseldorf. History Founded as ''TuS Bayer 04 Leverkusen'' in 1961, the club moved up to first division Basketball Bundesliga in 1968. The club won 5 national championships and 4 German Cups as TuS 04 Leverkusen before it changed its name and continued its dominance as ''TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen''. Until today, the club has won more national titles than any other German basketball team. To the disdain of all of its supporters, in 2008 the Bayer company decided to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max-Schmeling-Halle
Max-Schmeling-Halle is a multi-purpose arena, in Berlin, Germany, named after the famous German boxer Max Schmeling. Apart from Mercedes-Benz Arena and the Velodrom, it's one of Berlin's biggest indoor sports arenas and holds from 8,861 people, up to 12,000 people. The opening ceremony took place on 14 December 1996 in the presence of Max Schmeling. Location The Max-Schmeling-Halle is situated in the former border area of Berlin, near the Mauerpark and directly next to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. It's situated at the Falkplatz, in the district Prenzlauer Berg (borough Pankow). Use Planned for the 2000 Summer Olympics as a pure box gym, it was rebuilt (after the games were awarded to Sydney as the venue) to a multi-functional gym and is now primarily used for boxing and team handball and is the home arena of Füchse Berlin HBC and the Berlin Mini Basketball Tournament (berliner-mini-turnier.de). Madonna performed 4 sell out concerts in the arena during her Drowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korać Cup
Korać is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Dušan Korać (other), multiple people * Milorad Korać (born 1969), Serbian football player and manager * Radivoj Korać (1938–1969), Serbian basketball player * Vitomir Korać (1877–1941), Croatian Serb politician * Vojislav Korać (1924–2010), Serbian historian * Žarko Korać (born 1947), Serbian psychologist and politician * Žarko Korać (footballer) Žarko Korać ( Cyrillic: Жapкo Kopaћ, born 11 June 1987) is a Montenegrin football player who plays as a forward. Club career Žarko has played mainly with Montenegrin club FK Zeta, having achieved the title of Montenegrin First League to ... (born 1987), Montenegrin football player {{surname Serbian surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
