Korihait ( en, Basket Sharks) is a Finnish

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team from

Uusikaupunki Uusikaupunki (; sv, Nystad, ) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is inland wate ...

. It was formed as Uudenkaupungin Urheilijat, shortly UU, in 1898 and has won one

Korisliiga The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total ...

Finnish Championship (1990) and two Finnish Cups (1986, 1988). In 1994 UU had financial problems and entered bankruptcy. Korihait then took UU's place in the league. The club play at Pohitullin Sports Hall, which has also hosted the Finland men's national handball team.

Players

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Notable players

{{Basketball notable players criteria {{Columns-list, * {{flagicon, SRB Ognjen Kuzmić * {{flagicon, FIN Gerald Lee Sr. * {{flagicon, FIN Gerald Lee Jr. * {{flagicon, USA Chris Taft * {{flagicon, USA Daniel Horton * {{flagicon, CAN Gordon Herbert * {{flagicon, FIN Erkki Saaristo * {{flagicon, FIN

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* {{flagicon, FIN Jussi Kumpulainen * {{flagicon, USA Shawn Vanzant * {{Flagicon, USA Arizona Reid

References

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External links

* {{Official website, http://www.korihait.fi/ {{Korisliiga Basketball teams in Finland Uusikaupunki 1994 establishments in Finland Basketball teams established in 1994 {{Finland-sport-stub {{Europe-basketball-team-stub