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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 blev grundlagt i 1954 som Oldenburger TB og har siden været et af de mest succesfulde hold i tysk basketball. De har vundet det tyske mesterskab tre gange (1989, 1998, 2009) og har også vundet den tyske cup to gange (1998, 2000).
På den internationale scene har Oldenburg opnået succes i FIBA Saporta Cup, som de vandt i 1990. De har også spillet i EuroLeague, hvor de nåede semifinalen i 1991.
Holdets hjemmebane er EWE Arena, som har en kapacitet på 6.069 tilskuere. Oldenburgs holdfarver er grøn og hvid.
Nogle af de mest bemærkelsesværdige spillere, der har spillet for Oldenburg, omfatter:
* Michael Koch
* Lutz Wadehn
* Rickey Paulding
* Elias Harris
* Ismet Akpinar