Bauru Basket

Bauru Basket
Bauru Basket logo
LeaguesNBB
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)
History
List
  • Luso Tilibra Bauru
    1994; 1996
    Luso Tilibra Unimed Bauru
    1995
    Tilibra Copimax Bauru
    1997–2002
    Bauru Basquete
    2002–2003
    Sukest Bauru
    2004
    Plasútil Sukest Bauru
    2005–2006
    GRSA Bauru
    2008
    GRSA Itabom Bauru
    2009–2010
    Itabom Bauru
    2010–2012
    Paschoalotto Bauru
    2012–2016
    Gocil Bauru
    2016–2017
    Sendi Bauru
    2017–2020
    Zopone Gocil Bauru
    2020–present
ArenaGinásio Panela de Pressão
Capacity2,000
LocationBauru, São Paulo, Brazil
Team colorsGreen, White, Black
     
PresidentPlínio Cabrini Júnior
Head coachPaulo Jáu
Championships1 FIBA Americas League
2 South American League
2 Brazilian Championship
3 Paulista State Championships
Websitebaurubasket.com.br

The Associação Bauru Basketball Team, commonly known as Bauru Basquete (Bauru Basket), is a Brazilian professional basketball team that is based in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil. The club plays Brazil's top-tier level league, the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB).

Founded in 1994, Bauru has won two NBB championships, in 2002 and 2016. They also won the continental championship once when they won the FIBA Americas League in 2015. Bauru was the runner-up in the 2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.

The team plays its home games in the Ginásio Panela de Pressão, which has capacity for 2,000 people. Bauru is known for being the second club of Leandrinho Barbosa.

Crests and colors

  • The club's official logo –2016.
    The club's official logo –2016.
  • The club's official logo 2016–present.
    The club's official logo 2016–present.

History

Bauru was the second team of the Brazilian shooting guard Leandrinho Barbosa. Barbosa was an important player during the previous top-tier level Nacional Championship, in 2002. In that year, Bauru won the championship title, after winning a series against Araraquara. Barbosa and his teammates Marquinhos Vieira, Murilo Becker, Vanderlei, and others, won the series by a 3–0 score.

In the new Brazilian top-tier league, the NBB's first season (2008–09), Bauru signed the American Brazilian point guard Larry Taylor. In the NBB's fourth season (2011–12), Taylor, helped by the young player Gui Deodato, the experienced Fernando Fischer, and another American, Jeff Agba, led the team to a sixth place finish in the league.[1]

Bauru won its first FIBA Americas League championship, as they won the 2015 FIBA Americas League. The club was thus crowned the Latin American champions for the first time.[2] Because of the Americas League victory, the team would then play in the 2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, against the EuroLeague's 2014–15 season champions, Real Madrid.[3]

Bauru Basket has also won three São Paulo State Championships.[4] Bauru reached even bigger heights, when it was announced that the team would be a part of the 2015–16 NBA preseason's international versus NBA games.[5] Bauru played against the NBA clubs, the New York Knicks and the Washington Wizards in the United States, becoming the third Brazilian team to play against NBA teams, after C.R. Vasco da Gama and C.R. Flamengo.

In the 2016–17 NBB season, after two consecutive losses in the NBB's finals, Bauru finally became the Brazilian League champions once again, by winning the title for the first time in 15 years. They won the title, after coming back from a 2-0 series deficit, to beat C.A. Paulistano, in a 5 games series. Bauru's Alex Garcia, was named the NBB Finals MVP.

Honors and titles

Worldwide

Runners-up (1): 2015

Latin America

Champions (1): 2015
Runners-up (1): 2016

Continental

Champions (2): 2014, 2022
Runners-up (1): 1999

National

Champions (2): 2002, 2016–17[6]
Runners-up (2): 2014–15, 2015–16

Regional

Champions (3): 1999, 2013,[7] 2014[8]
Runners-up (2): 2000, 2016

Other tournaments

  • Troféu Cláudio Mortari
Winners (2): 2015, 2016

Matches against NBA teams

11 October 2015
Bauru Brazil 100–134 United States Washington Wizards

Players

Current roster (season 2022-23)

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

Bauru Basket roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age
PG 3 United States Brite, Dontrell 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) 30 – (1994-03-31)31 March 1994
G 4 United States Brazil Taylor, Larry 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 44 – (1980-10-03)3 October 1980
G/F 10 Brazil Garcia, Alex 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 44 – (1980-03-04)4 March 1980
C 12 Brazil Carvalho, Vitor 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 20 – (2004-08-30)30 August 2004
F 15 United States Holt, Emmitt 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 28 – (1996-04-23)23 April 1996
C 16 Brazil Rodrigues, Anderson 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 27 – (1997-08-06)6 August 1997
F 17 Brazil Ramos, Joao 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 25 – (1999-01-15)15 January 1999
C 22 Brazil Da Cruz, Felipe 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 24 – (2000-04-18)18 April 2000
Head coach
  • Brazil Paulo Jáu
Assistant coach(es)
  • Brazil Hudson Previdelo
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: 29 January 2020

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.

Head coaches

References

  1. ^ "LNB | Liga Nacional de Basquete". lnb.com.br. Retrieved 15 Oct 2016.
  2. ^ William Rosario, "Bauru the champ, Brazil the winner", FIBA.com, 29 Nov 2014, Retrieved 14 Dec 2015.
  3. ^ "Real Madrid, Bauru of Brazil to battle at 2015 Intercontinental Cup! - Latest - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL". euroleague.net. Retrieved 15 Oct 2016.
  4. ^ "É tricampeão! Paschoalotto/Bauru conquista mais um título no Campeonato Paulista de Basquete ". Jornal da Cidade. November 14, 2014. [1] Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine. Access in November 17, 2014.
  5. ^ "Voa, Bauru!! | LNB". lnb.com.br. Retrieved 15 Oct 2016.
  6. ^ "Bauru vira a série, vence o Paulistano e conquista primeiro título do NBB". Globoesporte (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-06-17.
  7. ^ Navarro, Thiago. "Basquete:Solta o grito! ". Jornal da Cidade. December 9, 2013. http://www.jcnet.com.br/Esportes/2013/12/campeao.html Archived 2017-02-27 at the Wayback Machine. Access in December 14, 2013.
  8. ^ "É tricampeão! Paschoalotto/Bauru conquista mais um título no Campeonato Paulista de Basquete ". Jornal da Cidade. November 14, 2014. [2] Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine. Access in November 17, 2014.