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PS Karlsruhe Lions
PS Karlsruhe Lions
Leagues	ProA
Founded	1961; 64 years ago
Arena	Europahalle
Capacity	3,500
Location	Karlsruhe, Germany
President	Danijel Ljubić
Head coach	Aleksandar Scepanovic
Website	psk-lions.de
Home	Away

PS Karlsruhe Lions is a German professional basketball team located in Karlsruhe. The team competes in Germany's ProA league, the country's second division. In 2017, the team promoted from the third tier ProB to the second tier.^[1] The team is part of the multi-sports club Post Südstadt Karlsruhe (PSK).

As of 2024, the team has been the reigning champion of the German ProA league.

History

Basketball has been played at PSK in the southern Karlsruhe district of Weiherfeld-Dammerstock since 1961. In the following decades, the department celebrated numerous regional and national successes. In 2016, the PS Karlsruhe Lions had four men's teams and two women's teams registered for play. In addition, there were numerous youth teams from U10 to U18. Until 2016, there was a cooperation with BG Karlsruhe, which had emerged in 1993 from the basketball departments of PSK and its neighboring club, FC Südstern. Due to the promotion of the first men's team of the PS Karlsruhe Lions to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB, the cooperation was terminated in May 2016, as both teams competed in the same league in the 2016/17 season. The first Karlsruhe women's team played in the Regionalliga Südwest.

On 7 April 2024, the Lions' Lachlan Dent set a ProA league record for 3-poniters made in a single game as he hit 10 in the game vs. Paderborn Baskets.^[2]

Arenas

Until 2017, the club played in the Friedrich-List-Schule, which had a capacity of 862 people. In the 2017–18 season, following the club's promotion to the ProA, the Lions started playing in the Europahalle Karlsruhe which has a capacity of 1,500 people. In 2020, they moved to the Lina-Radke-Halle. (1,500 seats)

For the 2024-25 season, the Lions returned to the Europahalle with an anticipated capacity of 3,500 visitors.^[3]

Honors

ProA

Champions: 2023–24

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

PS Karlsruhe LIONS roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
PG	1	Herzog, Lukas	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	23 – (2001-09-10)10 September 2001
SF	3	Ndi, Elijah	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	20 – (2004-09-02)2 September 2004
PG	4	Williams, O'Showen	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	27 – (1997-10-22)22 October 1997
PG	7	Dent, Lachlan	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	24 – (2000-02-01)1 February 2000
PG	8	Pisic, Pavle	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	80 kg (176 lb)	19 – (2005-09-08)8 September 2005
C	11	Tunstall Jr, Dennis	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	27 – (1997-03-02)2 March 1997
PF	12	Jostmann, Melvin	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	24 – (2000-07-12)12 July 2000
SG	14	Ani, Jesse Chidera	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	22 – (2002-01-27)27 January 2002
PF	17	Haarmann, Terry Kodjo-Torgbe	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	20 – (2004-08-02)2 August 2004
SG	18	Mäntynen, Joel	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	22 – (2002-01-13)13 January 2002
SG	20	Albus, Julian	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	90 kg (198 lb)	32 – (1992-05-20)20 May 1992
SG	23	Miller, Michael Jordan	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	27 – (1997-06-18)18 June 1997
C	74	Pluskota, Maurice Marko	2.09 m (6 ft 10 in)	113 kg (249 lb)	32 – (1992-05-30)30 May 1992
PF	77	Kigab, Abu	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	26 – (1998-11-03)3 November 1998

Head coach

Aleksandar Scepanovic

Assistant coach(es)

Aleksandar Nadjfeji

Andrew Michael Sauer

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: 1 December 2024

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Cup
2013–14	5	2. Regionalliga	2nd
2014–15	5	2. Regionalliga	1st
2015–16	4	1. Regionalliga	1st
2016–17	3	ProB	2nd
2017–18	2	ProA	3rd
2018–19	2	ProA	8th
2019–20	2	ProA	15th
2020–21	2	ProA	11th
2021–22	2	ProA	7th
2022–23	2	ProA	3rd
2023–24	2	ProA	1st	First round
2024–25	2	ProA		First round

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

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.