The Associação Bauru Basketball Team, commonly known as Bauru Basquete (Bauru Basket), is a Brazilian professional

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team that is based in

Bauru Bauru () is a Brazilian municipality in midwestern region of the state of São Paulo. It is the main city of the mesoregion and microregion of Bauru. The population is 379,297 (2020 est.) in an area of 667.68 km². Established in 1896, ...

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. The club plays Brazil's top-tier level league, the

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(NBB). Founded in 1994, Bauru has won two NBB championships, in 2002 and 2016. They also won the continental championship once when they won the

FIBA Americas League The FIBA Americas League ( Portuguese: ''FIBA Liga das Américas'', Spanish: ''FIBA Liga de las Américas''), officially abbreviated as the LDA, was the premier intercontinental basketball club competition played annually by clubs of the entire ...

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. Bauru was the runner-up in the

2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup The 2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup was the 25th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup. The series, played with two legs, was played by EuroLeague champions Real Madrid, and FIBA Americas League champions Bauru. Both games were played in the Gi ...

. The team plays its home games in the Ginásio Panela de Pressão, which has capacity for 2,000 people. Bauru is known for being the second club of

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Crests and colors

Bauru_basketb_logo.png, The club's official logo –2016. Bauru Basket logo.png, The club's official logo 2016–present.

History

Bauru was the second team of the Brazilian shooting guard

. Barbosa was an important player during the previous top-tier level Nacional Championship, in 2002. In that year, Bauru won the championship title, after winning a series against

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. Barbosa and his teammates

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, Vanderlei, and others, won the series by a 3–0 score. In the new Brazilian top-tier league, the NBB's first season ( 2008–09), Bauru signed the

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point guard

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. In the NBB's fourth season ( 2011–12), Taylor, helped by the young player Gui Deodato, the experienced Fernando Fischer, and another American, Jeff Agba, led the team to a sixth place finish in the league. Bauru won its first

championship, as they won the

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. The club was thus crowned the

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n champions for the first time. Because of the Americas League victory, the team would then play in the

, against the EuroLeague's 2014–15 season champions,

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. Bauru Basket has also won three São Paulo State Championships. Bauru reached even bigger heights, when it was announced that the team would be a part of the 2015–16 NBA preseason's international versus NBA games. Bauru played against the

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clubs, the

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and the

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in the

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, becoming the third Brazilian team to play against NBA teams, after

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and

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. In the 2016–17 NBB season, after two consecutive losses in the NBB's finals, Bauru finally became the Brazilian League champions once again, by winning the title for the first time in 15 years. They won the title, after coming back from a 2-0 series deficit, to beat C.A. Paulistano, in a 5 games series. Bauru's Alex Garcia, was named the NBB Finals MVP.

Honors and titles

Worldwide

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:Runners-up (1):

Latin America

:Champions (1):

:Runners-up (1): 2016

Continental

* South American League :Champions (2):

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:Runners-up (1): 1999

National

* Brazilian Championship :Champions (2): 2002, 2016–17 :''Runners-up (2):'' 2014–15, 2015–16

Regional

São Paulo State Championship The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Run by the FPF, the league is contested between 16 clubs and t ...

:Champions (3): 1999, 2013, 2014"É tricampeão! Paschoalotto/Bauru conquista mais um título no Campeonato Paulista de Basquete ". Jornal da Cidade. November 14, 2014

Access in November 17, 2014. :''Runners-up (2):'' 2000, 2016

Other tournaments

* Troféu Cláudio Mortari :Winners (2): 2015, 2016 * Torneo Interligas de Básquet, Torneio Interligas: 2019 * Copa TV TEM: 2008 * Copa EPTV: 2010

Matches against NBA teams

Players

Current roster (season 2019-20)

Notable players

* Valtinho da Silva * Maury de Souza * Josuel dos Santos * Alex Garcia *

Rafael Hettsheimeir Rafael Estevão "Rafa" Hettsheimeir (born June 16, 1986) is a Brazilian-Spanish professional basketball player who plays for Bauru of the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB) and the BCL Americas. He was also member of the Brazilian national basketball te ...

Head coaches

* Jorge "Guerrinha" Guerra * Demétrius Conrado Ferraciú

References

External links

Official website

Latinbasket.com team Profile
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