The Halcones de Ciudad Obregón (English: ''Ciudad Obregón Falcons'') are a Mexican professional

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team based in

Ciudad Obregón Ciudad Obregón is a city in southern Sonora. It is the state's second largest city after Hermosillo and serves as the municipal seat of Cajeme, as of 2020, the city has a population of 436,484. Ciudad Obregón is south of the state's norther ...

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into 72 municipalities; the ...

. The Halcones are members of the

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(CIBACOPA) and play their games in the Gimnasio Municipal Manuel Lira García.

History

The

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were founding members of CIBACOPA in 2001, and won three championships until the issue of poor attendance forced the club to abandon the league in 2013. The Halcones were founded in 2016 by a group of local businessmen looking to bring professional basketball back to the city to develop and promote the sport. The team joined the

(CIBACOPA) as an

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for the 2016 season, where they had a seventh-place regular-season finish before getting swept 4–0 by the eventual champions Nauticos de Mazatlán in the first round of the playoffs. Ahead of the 2017 season, the Halcones signed American imports Kevin Capers, Mike Glover and Glen Rice Jr. That year in the playoffs, they defeated the Nauticos in seven games before dispatching the Pioneros de Los Mochis in five. In the finals, they defeated

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4–2 to win their first-ever championship. Rice Jr. was named Finals MVP after averaging a near-30-point triple double in the series. In 2018, the team added Isaiah Wilkerson,

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and former Halcón Geron Johnson. The Halcones had a poor regular season showing, barely clinching a playoff spot with an eighth-place finish. The team again reached the finals, falling to the Tijuana Zonkeys in a six-game series. In February 2019, Spaniard Pedro Carrillo was hired as head coach, having previously coached the

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in the LNBP. He also won a LNBP championship with Fuerza Regia de Monterrey in 2016–17 as an assistant. Although he was selected to coach the North squad at the 2019 CIBACOPA All-Star Game in Guadalajara, Carrillo left the team in June for personal reasons. In the postseason, the Halcones lost in the semi-finals to the

Mantarrayas de La Paz The Mantarrayas de La Paz (English: ''La Paz Manta Rays'') are a Mexican professional basketball team based in La Paz, Baja California Sur. The Mantarrayas are members of the Circuito de Baloncesto de la Costa del Pacífico (CIBACOPA) and play thei ...

in seven games. The Halcones lost game seven at home by a score of 105–92 despite 29 points from José Estrada. American former top high school recruit

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joined the team in 2020, as did Jarvis Summers and Reggie Holmes. The Halcones played two games of the 2020 season, losses to

and

Ostioneros de Guaymas The Ostioneros de Guaymas was a professional baseball club based in Guaymas, a city located in the southwest part of the state of Sonora, Mexico. The Ostioneros were one of the four original founding members of the Mexican Pacific Coast League, a ...

, before the league announced the season was suspended due to the

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. Ahead of the 2022 season, the Halcones hired Ariel Rearte as head coach and announced they were moving their home arena from the Gimnasio Municipal Manuel Lira García to the Arena ITSON.

Players

Current roster

Notable alumni

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(born 1994)

Head coaches

* Eduardo Opezzo (2017) * Ronald Guillen (2018) * Pedro Carrillo (2019) * Martin Knezevic (2020) * Ariel Rearte (2022–present)

Honours

Domestic competitions

** Winners (1): 2017 ** Runners-up (1): 2018

References

External links

Official site

Team profile
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