Gijón Baloncesto was a

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team based in

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History

Gijón Baloncesto was established in 1982, after taking over the franchise of another local team, Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga, who was undergoing financial difficulties. In its first year, the club played in the third tier and immediately promoted to Primera División B, the second division in the Spanish league system. GB continued playing in the second tier from 1984 to 1995, when the club achieves promotion to Liga ACB after finishing runner-up of the 1994–95 Liga EBA and beating

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in the semifinal game. The club only remained one season and could not avoid relegation by losing the relegation playoffs against

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by 1–3. From 1996 to 1999, Gijón Baloncesto played in the new second league: LEB. It came back to ACB in 1999 by beating

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3–0 in the semifinal of the promotion playoffs. In this second era in ACB, Gijón Baloncesto remained for three seasons until the relegation in 2002. After the relegation, the club started its decline until being relegated to the third tier in 2007 and finally being dissolved in 2009.

Sponsorship

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: 1983–1984 *Trébol: 1984–1985 * Lagisa: 1985–1992 * CLAS: 1992–1993 *Trébol: 1993–1995 *Cabitel: 1998–2000 *Isastur: 2002–2003 *Calefacciones Farho: 2003–2008 *Viopisa: 2008–2009

Head coaches

* Pedro Zorrozúa 1982–1983 * José Antonio Figueroa 1983–1984 * Ed Johnson 1984–1985, 1988–1989, 1991 * Ricardo Hevia 1985–1987 * Emilio de Diego 1987 * Trifón Poch 1987–1988 * Eduardo Ayuso 1988 * Antonio Garrido 1990–1991, 1992 * Víctor Lago 1989, 1991–1992, 1992 * Ángel Martín-Benito 1993 * Bill McCammon 1993–1995 * Iñaki Iriarte 1995–1996 *

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1996–1997 * Vicente Charro 1997 * Pepe Rodríguez 1997–1998 *

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1998–2002 *

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2002–2005 * Diego Tobalina 2005–2006 * Joaquín Prado 2006–2007 * Jorge Elorduy 2007–2008 * Jenaro Díaz 2008–2009 *

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2021-2022

Season by season

Notable players

* Carles Marco * Tomàs Jofresa *

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* Saúl Blanco * Xavi Vallmajó *

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* Hernán Jasen * Bob Harstad * James Blackwell * Etdrick Bohannon *

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* Michael Smith *

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* Linton Townes * Terquin Mott *

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* Eric Johnson * Ryan Stack * Etdrick Bohannon * Stephen Howard * Todd Fuller * Thierry Zig * Miroslav Pecarski * Guilherme Giovannoni

Individual awards

ACB Most Valuable Player *

– 2001

External links

Non official website
Defunct basketball teams in Spain Former LEB Oro teams Basketball teams established in 1982 Basketball teams disestablished in 2009 Former Liga ACB teams Former LEB Plata teams Former Liga EBA teams 1982 establishments in Spain Sport in Gijón Basketball teams in Asturias {{Spain-basketball-team-stub