Club Baloncesto Lucentum Alicante is a professional

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team based in

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with ...

. Lucentum Alicante played in

Liga ACB The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, wi ...

for the last time in 2012, after selling its place in the league to

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. In August 2015, due to its financial problems, it gave its place in

LEB Plata The LEB Plata is the third basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system and the second basketball division organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation. Since 2019, three teams are promoted to LEB Oro and six teams are relegated t ...

to the

Fundación Lucentum Baloncesto Fundación Lucentum Baloncesto Alicante, also known as HLA Alicante for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Alicante, Valencian Community. History The club was founded on 17 June 2015 with the aim to save the basketball ...

, created two months before to save the basketball of the city.

Sponsorship naming

Lucentum Alicante has had several sponsorship names during its history: *Ernesto Electrodomésticos 1994–1996 *Proaguas Costablanca 2000–2001 *Etosa Alicante 2002–2007 *Alicante Costablanca 2007–2008 *Meridiano Alicante 2009–2011

Team logos

Image:CB Lucentum-Alicante.jpg, Non commercial logo Image:MerAlicante.jpg, 2009–2011

Players

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

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: (2) **

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* Copa Príncipe: (2) **2002, 2009 * Lliga Valenciana: (3) **2004, 2006, 2011

Individual awards

All-ACB Team The All-Liga ACB Team ( es, Quinteto Ideal de la ACB) is an award for the top-tier professional basketball league in Spain, the Spanish ACB League. It is the yearly selection of the league's top 10 basketball players by position. The award began w ...

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– 2004

Notable former players

Lucio Angulo Lucio Angulo Espinosa (born 9 April 1973 in Zaragoza, Spain) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player. He is the brother of Alberto Angulo, who played for Real Madrid, as Lucio also did. He is a 2.00 m (6 ft 6 ¾ in) tall small fo ...

* José Manuel Calderón *

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Martynas Andriuškevičius Martynas Andriuškevičius (; born March 12, 1986) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He is a 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) tall and 113 kg (250 lb) center (basketball), center. Andriuškevičius has noted perimeter skill f ...

Velimir Perasović Velimir Perasović (; born 9 February 1965) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He is serving as the head coach for the Russian team UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. Early life Perasović was bo ...

Vule Avdalović Vule Avdalović ( sr-cyr, Вуле Авдаловић; born 24 November 1981) is a Serbian professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Ba ...

Kyle Singler Kyle Edward Singler (born May 4, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. Singler was a four-year starter for the Duke men's basketball team and was instrumental in their 2010 NCAA championship run, earning Most Outstanding Pl ...

* Serkan Erdoğan *

Kaloyan Ivanov Kaloyan Toshkov Ivanov (born March 18, 1986) is a Bulgarian professional basketball player for Levski Sofia of the NBL. Standing at , he plays at the power forward position. Professional career From 2006 to 2009, Ivanov played with ViveMenorc ...

References

External links

CB Lucentum Alicante Official Website

Lucentum Lucentum ( grc-gre, Λούκεντον, ''Loúkenton''), called Lucentia by Pomponius Mela, is the Roman predecessor of the city of Alicante, Spain. Particularly, it refers to the archaeological site in which the remains of this ancient settlemen ...

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