Baskets Oldenburg, for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional

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club that is based in the city of

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, Germany. The club plays in the

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. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an

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company. The club's home arena is the

Große EWE Arena Große EWE Arena, or Grosse EWE Arena, (English language, English: Large EWE Arena) is a dual indoor arena, indoor sporting arena complex in Oldenburg (city), Oldenburg, Germany. It is a part of the Weser-Ems Halle multi-sporting complex, which c ...

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 ...

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. 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

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, by a score of 71–77, and in the Cup Final, the team was too strong for

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castle. C ...

, as they beat them by a score of 70–72.

Arenas

Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,000 seat

, which opened in 2013.

Honors

Total titles:

Domestic competitions

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**Champions: 2008–09 ***Runners-up: 2012–13, 2016–17 *

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**Champions:

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* BBL Champions Cup **Champions: 2009

European competitions

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

Players

Retired numbers

Current roster

Individual awards

* 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 **

– 2008, 2009 **

– 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 **

– 2017 **

– 2017

Notable players

Season by season

Choreo EWE Baskets Oldenburg Playoffs 2014

Colors and logos

The traditional colors of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg basketball club are

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and

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. From 2009 to 2018, the team adopted a slightly reworked logo, this time with a white background and which again featured an

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. 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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