Borås Basket is a professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
club based in the Swedish town of
Borås
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 66,273 inhabitants in 2010.
Geography
Borås is located at the point of two crossing railways, among them th ...
. The club was founded in 1952 and currently compete in the
Swedish Basketball League (SBL), the country's premier league.
Borås has played in European competitions multiple times in its history; in 1995, 1996 and 2000 it played in the
FIBA Korac Cup. In 2014 Borås returned to Europe when it entered the
EuroChallenge
FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...
.
History
In the 1999–2000 season, Borås was personally sponsored by
National Basketball Association
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(NBA) player
Magic Johnson and was named "Magic M7 Borås". Johnson himself played 5 games for the club between October and January that season. Johnson joined the roster and was undefeated in five games with the team.
["Basketball: Johnson plays in Sweden"]
''The Independent'', November 12, 1999. ''www.independent.co.uk.'' Retrieved September 8, 2014.Associated Press
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"Magic Johnson Returns to Scandinavia."
''www.apnewsarchive'', November 5, 2000. Retrieved April 17, 2015. Johnson also became a co-owner of the club;
[Sanchis, J.R]
"Historias nórdicas: Magic Johnson, el vikingo"
''www.solobasket.com'', November 10, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2014. however, the project failed after one season and the club was forced into reconstruction.
Since 2007, Borås is again active in the
Basketligan, the highest tier of Swedish basketball.
In the
2019–20 season, Borås won its first Swedish championship under special circumstances. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, the season was ended prematurely and the team won the championship based on its first place in the regular season.
Honours
Swedish Basketball League
*Champions (1):
2019–20
Season by season
Players
Current roster
Notable players
Notes
References
External links
*
Official website
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Basketball teams in Sweden
Sport in Borås
Basketball teams established in 1952
1952 establishments in Sweden
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