Baskets Oldenburg

EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Leagues	BBL
Founded	2001; 23 years ago (2001)
History	Oldenburger TB 1954–2001 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2001–present
Arena	Large EWE Arena (occasional games at the Small EWE Arena)
Capacity	6,069
Location	Oldenburg, Germany
Team colors	Blue, yellow[1]
President	Hermann Schüller Gerold Lange
Head coach	Mladen Drijencic
Affiliation(s)	EWE Baskets Juniors
Championships	1 German Championship 1 German Cup 1 German Supercup
Retired numbers	4 (6, 8, 14, 23)
Website	www.ewe-baskets.de
Home Away

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.

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]

Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,000 seat Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.

Total titles:

• 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

• FIBA EuroChallenge
  • Third place: 2012–13

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

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) 22 – (2002-07-25)25 July 2002 PF 2 Chapman, Brekkott 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 28 – (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 SF 11 Foster, Kyle 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 27 – (1997-05-27)27 May 1997 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) 26 – (1998-10-22)22 October 1998 SG 25 Ogbe, Kenneth 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 30 – (1994-11-16)16 November 1994 SF 34 Konontšuk, Artur 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 24 – (2000-05-09)9 May 2000 SF 35 Pjanic, Alen 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 27 – (1997-03-05)5 March 1997 SF Rode, Kyle 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 25 – (1999-12-09)9 December 1999 F Hinrichs, Seth 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 31 – (1993-03-24)24 March 1993 G Jaworski, Justin 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 89 kg (196 lb) 25 – (1999-06-21)21 June 1999	Head coach Pedro Calles Assistant coach(es) Bryce Taylor Ferried Naciri Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Development player Injured Roster Updated: June 18, 2024

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to EWE Baskets Oldenburg.

• Official website
• Eurobasket.com team profile