Plateros de Fresnillo (English: ''Fresnillo Silversmiths'') is a professional Mexican

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team, based in

Fresnillo Fresnillo (/fres'nijo/), founded in 1554 by Francisco de Ibarra, is the second largest city in Zacatecas state, north central Mexico and the seat of Fresnillo municipality. As a rail and highway junction, Fresnillo is the center of a rich mining ...

. The Plateros are part

Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional 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 ...

, the top professional basketball league in

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. The team play their home games at the Gimnasio Solidaridad Municipal, with a capacity of 4,000 spectators.

History

The Plateros were founded in 2019 in order to compete in the 2019–20 LNBP season. The team was created by an initiative of the local government of

and the state government of

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in order to promote basketball in the region. Initially, all the investment was made by the State of Zacatecas government, with an estimate amount of 13 million

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(around US$560,000). Plateros joined the three other new teams for the 2019–20: the

Astros de Jalisco Astros de Jalisco (English: ''Jalisco Astros'') is a professional Mexican basketball team, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco. The Astros are part the CIBACOPA and the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, the top professional basketball league in M ...

and the

Dorados de Chihuahua Dorados de Chihuahua (English: Chihuahua Goldens) are a refounded baseball team from the city of Chihuahua. Recently, the Tuneros de San Luis moved to Chihuahua and took the Dorados namesake, which also brought the LMB (AAA) Mexican Baseball Le ...

Players

Current roster

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Notable players

Diamon Simpson Diamon Simpson (born September 8, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for Dorados de Chihuahua of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). He played college basketball for the Saint Mary's College before playing profe ...

(born 1987)

References

External links

Team profile
{{Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional Basketball teams in Mexico Sport in Zacatecas Basketball teams established in 2019 2019 establishments in Mexico