Laguneros de la Comarca (English: '' Comarca Lakers'') is a professional Mexican

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team, based in

Torreón Torreón () is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2021, the city's population was 735,340. The metropolitan population as of 2015 was 1,497,734, making it the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in the ...

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

. The Laguneros are part of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, the top professional basketball league in

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. The team plays its home games at the Auditorio Municipal de Torreón, with a capacity of 4,363 spectators.

History

Laguneros was founded in 2018 and joined the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional for the 2018–19 season, joining

Huracanes de Tampico Huracanes de Tampico (English: ''Tampico Hurricanes'') is a professional Mexican basketball team, based in Tampico, Tamaulipas. The Libertadores are part of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, the top professional basketball league in Mexi ...

and Leñadores de Durango as expansion teams. The team chose purple, black and white as their colors and the nickname Laguneros, which is the demonym for people from the Comarca Lagunera, a region in the states of

and

Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

, that would roughly translate into "people from the lagoons". Previously, the Laguna region had professional basketball representation in the LNBP with two teams:

Algodoneros de la Comarca The National Professional Basketball League ( or LNBP) is the top professional basketball league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 10 teams. Despite its short history, the LNBP has established itself as the one of the most important ...

and

Jefes de Fuerza Lagunera The Jefes de Fuerza Lagunera is a Mexican professional basketball team based in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. The team is a member of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). The team was founded in 2014 and plays their home games in the ...

, both teams played in the city of

Players

Current roster

References

External links

Team profile
{{Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional Basketball teams in Mexico Basketball teams established in 2018 2018 establishments in Mexico Sports clubs and teams in Coahuila Torreón