Associação de Basquete Cearense or simply Basquete Cearense is a Brazilian professional

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team that is based in

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. The club plays in the Brazilian top-tier level

Novo Basquete Brasil Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB; English: New Basketball Brazil) is the Brazilian premier professional men's basketball league. It is organized by the Liga Nacional de Basquete (LNB; English: National Basketball League), in a new format of Brazil's pr ...

(NBB). The team was founded in 2012, and since then has played in all editions of the NBB, reaching the playoffs three times.

History

Basquete Cearense was created in 2012, with the support of the government of

, City Hall, and sponsored by Sky. It was created as a project franchise, conceived by head coach Alberto Bial, who had been one of those responsible for the creation of the

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team. The team became the first basketball team from the Northeast Region of Brazil to play in the top-tier level

(NBB).

Roster

Noted players

* Duda Machado * Davi Rossetto * Marcus Toledo

References

External links

Official website

Latinbasket.com Profile
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