Baskets Oldenburg

   PresidentHermann Schüller
Gerold LangeHead coachPedro CallesAffiliation(s)EWE Baskets JuniorsChampionships1 German Championship
1 German Cup
1 German SupercupRetired numbers4 (6, 8, 14, 23)Websitewww.ewe-baskets.de

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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 6,000 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 (3): 1987, 1998, 2000

European competitions

• FIBA EuroChallenge
  • Third place: 2012–13

Players

Retired numbers

EWE Baskets Oldenburg retired numbers[5]
No.	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
6		Daniel Strauch	PF	2003–2010
8		Pavel Bečka	C	1995–2004
				2006
14		Tyron McCoy	SG	2001–2007
23		Rickey Paulding	SF	2007–2022

Current roster

EWE Baskets Oldenburg roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 0 Schoormann, Len 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 83 kg (183 lb) 21 – (2002-07-25)25 July 2002 PF 2 Chapman, Brekkott 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 27 – (1996-04-07)7 April 1996 G 3 DiLeo, Max 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 31 – (1993-03-12)12 March 1993 PG 4 Russell, DeWayne 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 70 kg (154 lb) 30 – (1994-02-10)10 February 1994 SF 11 Foster, Kyle 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 26 – (1997-05-27)27 May 1997 C 15 Izundu, Ebuka 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 27 – (1996-06-28)28 June 1996 C 17 Agbakoko, Norris 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) 113 kg (249 lb) 24 – (2000-01-16)16 January 2000 G/F 21 Manning Jr., Charles 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 25 – (1998-10-22)22 October 1998 SF 24 Williams, Deane 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 99 kg (218 lb) 27 – (1996-09-23)23 September 1996 SG 25 Ogbe, Kenneth 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 29 – (1994-11-16)16 November 1994 SF 35 Pjanic, Alen 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 27 – (1997-03-05)5 March 1997 G Wiggins, Carrington 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 23 – (2000-04-05)5 April 2000 SF Konontšuk, Artur 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 23 – (2000-05-09)9 May 2000	Head coach Pedro Calles Assistant coach(es) Bryce Taylor Ferried Naciri Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Development player Injured Roster Updated: August 6, 2023

Individual awards

Notable players

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	German Cup	European competitions
2001–02	1	Bundesliga	12th	Runner-up
2002–03	1	Bundesliga	6th
2003–04	1	Bundesliga	5th
2004–05	1	Bundesliga	7th
2005–06	1	Bundesliga	8th
2006–07	1	Bundesliga	9th
2007–08	1	Bundesliga	3rd
2008–09	1	Bundesliga	1st		3 EuroChallenge	T16	10–1–5
2009–10	1	Bundesliga	5th	Quarter-finalist	1 Euroleague	RS	1–9
2010–11	1	Bundesliga	6th	Quarter-finalist	2 Eurocup	RS	1–5
2011–12	1	Bundesliga	10th	Quarter-finalist	3 EuroChallenge	T16	9–3
2012–13	1	Bundesliga	2nd	Quarter-finalist	3 EuroChallenge	3rd	14–3
2013–14	1	Bundesliga	3rd	Quarter-finalist	1 Euroleague	QR2	1–1
					2 Eurocup	RS	5–5
2014–15	1	Bundesliga	7th	Champion	2 Eurocup	RS	4–6
2015–16	1	Bundesliga	5th	Quarter-finalist	2 Eurocup	EF	8–8
2016–17	1	Bundesliga	2nd		3 Champions League	EF	11–1–6
2017–18	1	Bundesliga	7th		3 Champions League	R16	10–6
2018–19	1	Bundesliga	3rd	Round of 16
2019–20	1	Bundesliga	4th	Runner-up	2 EuroCup	T16	8–8
2020–21	1	Bundesliga	5th	Group stage
2021–22	1	Bundesliga	11th	Round of 16	3 Champions League	RS	1–5
2022–23	1	Bundesliga	6th	Runner-up
2023–24	1	Bundesliga		Round of 16	3 Champions League	RS	2–4

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]

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  Logo used from 2004 to 2009
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  Logo used from 2018 until today

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