# Guaros de Lara

The Guaros de Lara is a Venezuelan professional basketball club, that is based in Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela. Guaros de Lara BBC has existed as a club in various different forms since 1983. It has existed in its current form since 2003.
The club competes in the Venezuelan LPB. The club has won two Venezuelan LPB national domestic titles. On the international stage, the club also has one continental FIBA South American League title, and three intercontinental titles, consisting of two FIBA Americas League titles and one FIBA Intercontinental Cup title.

## History

In 1982, Flavio Fridegotto decided to sell his ownership in the Colosos de Carabobo basketball team, which led the club move from Carabobo, to the city of Acarigua. In Acarigua, the club began to compete under the name of Bravos de Portuguesa, in 1983. In 1993, the club moved to Barquisimeto, and changed its name to Malteros de Lara. In 1995, the club changed its name to Bravos de Lara.
The club again relocated, as it moved to the city of Guanare. After moving to Guanare, the club re-named itself to Bravos de Portuguesa once again, in 1998. Former NBA player Carl Herrera played with the team in 1999. In 2003, Carlos García Ibáñez bought the Bravos de Portuguesa club, and he subsequently moved it back to the city of Barquisimeto. After the club returned to Barquisimeto, it was re-named to Guaros de Lara.
In 2016, the Guaros de Lara won the 2016 FIBA Americas League championship, and was crowned as the champion of all of Latin America, for the first time. Following their FIBA Americas League championship, Guaros also won the 2016 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, and thus they were crowned world basketball club champions, after beating the Skyliners Frankfurt in the final.
In 2017, the Guaros successfully defended their Americas intercontinental title, by defeating Weber Bahía Blanca, by a score of 88–65, in the final of the years' Americas League. Later, they also won their first Venezuelan League national domestic title, by defeating Marinos de Anzoátegui, 4–2, in the Venezuelan League's finals. Afterwards, they won the 2017 FIBA South American League championship, which was the club's first South American continental championship; after defeating Estudiantes Concordia, 3–1, in the league's finals.

## Arena

The Guaros de Lara play their home games at the 10,000-capacity Domo Bolivariano in Barquisimeto, numerous times in front of thousands of spectators.

## Honours
### Domestic

* Venezuelan League
    Champions (2): 2017, 2018
    Runners-up (5): 2005, 2006, 2015, 2019, 2022

### South America

* FIBA South American League
    Champions (1): 2017

### Latin America

* FIBA Americas League
    Champions (2): 2016, 2017
    Runners-up (1): 2019

### Worldwide

* FIBA Intercontinental Cup
    Champions (1): 2016
    Runners-up (1): 2017

## Current roster

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

### Depth chart

Source:
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench |
| C | Prince Ibeh | Miguel Ruiz |
| PF | Juan Palacios | Erick Rodríguez |
| SF | José Gregorio Vargas | Ruben Gonzalez |
| SG | Alan Cabrera | Omar Marquez |
| PG | Heissler Guillent | Heldrin Guillent |

### 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.
* Luis Bethelmy
* Néstor Colmenares
* Gregory Echenique
* Windi Graterol
* Heissler Guillént
* Miguel Marriaga
* José Gregorio Vargas
* Gregory Vargas
* David Cubillán
* David Cooke
* Zach Graham
* Lazar Hayward
* Damion James
* Davon Jefferson
* Mario Little
* Nate Robinson
* Robert Upshaw
* Damien Wilkins
* Branko Cvetković

### Head coaches

* Che García
* Iván Déniz
* Fernando Duró