Baskets Oldenburg

Baskets Oldenburg,^[2] for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional basketball club that is based in the city of Oldenburg, Germany. The club plays in the Bundesliga. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an electric utility company. The club's home arena is the Große EWE Arena.

History

The EWE Baskets Oldenburg club's origins began in the year 1954, as the basketball department of the Oldenburger TB sports club. 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.^[3]

In 2015, they won the German Cup title, while being host to the Cup Final Four. In the Cup Semi-final, Oldenburg beat Bonn, by a score of 71–77, and in the Cup Final, the team was too strong for Bamberg, as they beat them by a score of 70–72.^[4]

Arenas

Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,200 seat Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.

Honors

Total titles:

Domestic competitions

• Basketball Bundesliga
  • Champions: 2008–09
    • Runners-up: 2012–13, 2016–17
• BBL-Pokal
  • Champions: 2015
• BBL Champions Cup
  • Champions: 2009

2. Basketball Bundesliga

• Champions: 1987, 1998, 2000

European competitions

• FIBA EuroChallenge
  • Third place: 2012–13

Players

Retired numbers

Individual awards

• BBL Most Valuable Player
  • Jason Gardner – 2009
  • Will Cummings – 2019
• BBL Finals MVP
  • Rickey Paulding – 2009
• All-BBL First Team
  • Jason Gardner – 2008, 2009
  • Rickey Paulding – 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016
  • Brian Qvale – 2016
  • Chris Kramer – 2017

• All-BBL Second Team
  • Tyron McCoy – 2005
  • Je'Kel Foster – 2010
  • Adam Chubb – 2013
  • Julius Jenkins – 2014
  • Vaughn Duggins – 2016
  • Rickey Paulding – 2017
  • Brian Qvale – 2017

Notable players

• Steven Hutchinson
• Elvir Ovčina
• Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
• Pavel Bečka
• Felipe López
• Kristaps Valters
• Aron Baynes
• Josh Carter
• Terrel Castle
• Bill Edwards
• D'or Fischer
• Je'Kel Foster
• Jason Gardner
• Anthony Grundy
• Dan Grunfeld
• Chris Kramer
• Scott Machado
• Tyron McCoy
• Rickey Paulding
• Desmond Penigar
• Doron Perkins
• Bobby Brown
• Julius Jenkins
• Carl Krauser
• Vojdan Stojanovski

Season by season

Colors and logos

The traditional colors of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg basketball club are yellow and blue. From 2009 to 2018, the team adopted a slightly reworked logo, this time with a white background and which again featured an eagle.^[6] 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.^[7]

References

1. ^ "EWE Baskets mit neuem Club-Logo und Markenwerten: Echt. Engagiert. Energiegeladen." (in de-DE). ewe-baskets.de. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2018. Unsere Farben sind weiterhin Gelb und Blau.
2. ^ "Impressum EWE Baskets Oldenburg". Impressum – EWE Baskets Oldenburg. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
3. ^ History Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "2015-04-12 BAM-OLD". Beko-bbl.de. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
5. ^ EWE Baskets – Retired Numbers Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ "EWE Baskets mit neuem logo". Oldenburger-sportblog.de. 3 February 2009.
7. ^ "In diesem Logo ist (fast) alles anders". NWZOnline.de. 2 August 2018.

External links

• Eurobasket.com team profile