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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.
A csapatot 1954-ben alapították Oldenburger TB néven. 1990-ben a csapat a BBL-be jutott. 2009-ben az EWE Baskets Oldenburg megnyerte első kupáját, a BBL-Kupát. A csapat 2015-ben nyerte meg első bajnoki címét.
Az EWE Baskets Oldenburg hazai mérkőzéseit a 6000 férőhelyes EWE Arena-ban játssza. A csapat színei a zöld és a sárga.