Baskets Oldenburg, for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional
basketball
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club that is based in the city of
Oldenburg, Germany. The club plays in the
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an
electric utility
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company. The club's home arena is the
Große EWE Arena.
History
The EWE Baskets Oldenburg club's origins began in the year 1954, as the basketball department of the
Oldenburger TB
EWE Baskets Juniors, also Oldenburger TB, is a professional basketball team that is based in Oldenburg, Germany. The club's full name is Oldenburger Turnerbund. The team is a part of the bigger Basketball Bundesliga team EWE Baskets Oldenburg, an ...
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
. In the year 2001, the basketball department of Oldenburger TB formed a new separate club, called EWE Baskets Oldenburg. The Oldenburger TB team then started to function as the
development team of EWE Baskets.
In the
2008–09 season, EWE Baskets Oldenburg achieved their greatest success, by winning the
German League championship title. As
German Champion, Oldenburg won the right to play in the
EuroLeague, during the next season of
2009–10.
In 2015, they won the
German Cup
The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considere ...
title, while being host to the Cup Final Four. In the Cup Semi-final, Oldenburg beat
Bonn
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, by a score of 71–77, and in the Cup Final, the team was too strong for
Bamberg, as they beat them by a score of 70–72.
Arenas
Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,000 seat
Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.
Honors
Total titles:
Domestic competitions
*
Basketball Bundesliga
**Champions:
2008–09
***Runners-up:
2012–13
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,
2016–17
*
BBL-Pokal
Basketball Bundesliga-Pokal, commonly known as the BBL-Pokal, is the annual national basketball cup competition in Germany. Since 2009, the title has been awarded to the winner of a tournament competition between top clubs of each Basketball Bunde ...
**Champions:
2015
*
BBL Champions Cup
**Champions: 2009
European competitions
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FIBA 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 ...
**Third place:
2012–13
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Players
Retired numbers
Current roster
Individual awards
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BBL Most Valuable Player
**
Jason Gardner
Jason Corey Gardner (born November 14, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player and currently a player relations director at the University of Arizona.
Gardner is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, playing his high school bal ...
– 2009
**
Will Cummings
Will Cummings (born October 7, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C. of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Temple.
High school career
Cummings, a poi ...
– 2019
*
BBL Finals MVP
**
Rickey Paulding
Rickey Paulding (born October 23, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Missouri.
Early career
Paulding attended Renaissance High School in Detroit. In his senior season, h ...
– 2009
*
All-BBL First Team
**
Jason Gardner
Jason Corey Gardner (born November 14, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player and currently a player relations director at the University of Arizona.
Gardner is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, playing his high school bal ...
– 2008, 2009
**
Rickey Paulding
Rickey Paulding (born October 23, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Missouri.
Early career
Paulding attended Renaissance High School in Detroit. In his senior season, h ...
– 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016
**
Brian Qvale
Brian Arthur Qvale ( ; born November 3, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Toyotsu Fighting Eagles Nagoya of the Japan - B2 League. He played college basketball for the University of Montana before moving to Eu ...
– 2016
**
Chris Kramer – 2017
*
All-BBL Second Team
**
Tyron McCoy
Clement Tyron McCoy (born November 20, 1972) is an American professional basketball coach, and former professional basketball player. At a height of 6'5" (1.96 m) tall, he played at the shooting guard position.
Playing career High school
McCoy ...
– 2005
**
Je'Kel Foster
Je'Kel Reshard Foster (born July 22, 1983) is an American professional basketball player for Benfica do Libolo of the BIC Basket.
College
Foster began his studies at Howard Junior College in Big Spring, Texas. After a year, his basketball coac ...
– 2010
**
Adam Chubb
Adam Edward Chubb (born July 5, 1981) is a former American basketball player.
Chubb was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a dual athlete: Basketball and Track and Fie ...
– 2013
**
Julius Jenkins
Julius Jenkins (born February 10, 1981) is an American professional basketball player, who lastly played for Science City Jena of the Basketball Bundesliga.
College career
Jenkins played collegiately at Georgia Southern University.
Professiona ...
– 2014
**
Vaughn Duggins
Vaughn Duggins (born July 10, 1987) is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for s.Oliver Würzburg of the German BBL. Duggins played college basketball for the Wright State Raiders from 2006 until 2011 before turning ...
– 2016
**
Rickey Paulding
Rickey Paulding (born October 23, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Missouri.
Early career
Paulding attended Renaissance High School in Detroit. In his senior season, h ...
– 2017
**
Brian Qvale
Brian Arthur Qvale ( ; born November 3, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Toyotsu Fighting Eagles Nagoya of the Japan - B2 League. He played college basketball for the University of Montana before moving to Eu ...
– 2017
Notable players
Season by season
Colors and logos
The traditional colors of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg basketball club are
yellow
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and
blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when ...
. From 2009 to 2018, the team adopted a slightly reworked logo, this time with a white background and which again featured an
eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, j ...
. In 2018, the club adopted its massively modernized current logo, now round and with a different shade of blue. The eagle however is still on it.
EWE Baskets logo 2009.gif, Logo used from 2004 to 2009
EWE Baskets Oldenburg logo.svg, Logo used from 2018 until today
References
External links
*
Eurobasket.com team profile
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Basketball teams in Germany
Basketball teams established in 1954
Sport in Lower Saxony
Sport in Oldenburg (city)
1954 establishments in Germany