Nürnberg Falcons BC, formerly called Nürnberger BC (abbreviated as NBC) is a

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club based in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

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. The team currently in the

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, the German professional second division. In 2010–11 the team promoted from the ProB to the ProA. In 2019, Nürnberg finished as runner-up in the ProA. The Falcons play their home games since 2021 in the new build Kia Metropol arena, which has a capacity of 4000 people.

History

In the

2018–19 ProA The 2018–19 ProA was the 12th season of the ProA, the second level of basketball in Germany. The champions and the runners-up of the play-offs were promoted to the 2019–20 Basketball Bundesliga. Hamburg Towers won its first ProA championship ...

season, Nürnberg ended in third place in the standings. In the playoffs it defeated second-seeded

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to qualify for the ProA finals. Because of this achievement, the team earned promotion to the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) for the first time. In May 2019, it was announced that Falcons did not obtain a license for the BBL due to not meeting requirements on minimum arena size and minimum budget. N Falcons

Honours

**Runners-up (1): 2018–19

Players

Current squad

Individual awards

; ProA MVP * Braydon Hobbs: 2015

Notable players

- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.
* Tim Ohlbrecht *

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* Braydon Hobbs * Dupree McBrayer * Dan Oppland * Eric Washington * Diante Watkins

References

External links

Nürnberger BC

Eurobasket.com Team Page
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