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Wikipedia - Baskets Oldenburg
Baskets Oldenburg, 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.
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.
Oldenburg je jedním z nejúspěšnějších německých basketbalových týmů, který získal dva německé šampionáty (v letech 1989 a 1990) a čtyři německé poháry (v letech 1998, 2000, 2005 a 2009). Tým se pravidelně účastní evropských soutěží, včetně Euroligy a Eurocupu.
Domácím hřištěm Oldenburgu je EWE Arena, která má kapacitu 6 000 diváků. Tým má silnou fanouškovskou základnu a je známý svou útočnou hrou. Hlavním trenérem Oldenburgu je Pedro Calles.
Mezi významné hráče, kteří v Oldenburgu hráli, patří Deon Thompson, Rickey Paulding, Tibor Pleiß a Johannes Voigtmann.