# 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.

## Arenas

Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,200 seat Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.

## Honors

Total titles:

### Domestic competitions

* 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

### European competitions

* FIBA EuroChallenge
** Third place: 2012–13

## Players
### Retired numbers

EWE Baskets Oldenburg retired numbers :
| No. | Player | Position | Tenure |
| 6 | Daniel Strauch | PF | 2003–2010 |
| 8 | Pavel Bečka | C | 1995–2004 |
| 8 | Pavel Bečka | C | 2006 |
| 14 | Tyron McCoy | SG | 2001–2007 |
| 23 | Rickey Paulding | SF | 2007–2022 |

### Individual awards

* BBL Most Valuable Player
** Jason Gardner – 2009
** Will Cummings – 2019
* BBL Finals MVP
** Rickey Paulding – 2009
* All-BBL First Team
** Jason Gardner – 2008, 2009
** Rickey Paulding – 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016
** Brian Qvale – 2016
** Chris Kramer – 2017
* All-BBL Second Team
** Tyron McCoy – 2005
** Je'Kel Foster – 2010
** Adam Chubb – 2013
** Julius Jenkins – 2014
** Vaughn Duggins – 2016
** Rickey Paulding – 2017
** Brian Qvale – 2017

### 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.
* Steven Hutchinson
* Elvir Ovčina
* Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
* Pavel Bečka
* Felipe López
* Kristaps Valters
* Aron Baynes
* Josh Carter
* Terrel Castle
* Bill Edwards
* D'or Fischer
* Je'Kel Foster
* Jason Gardner
* Anthony Grundy
* Dan Grunfeld
* Chris Kramer
* Scott Machado
* Tyron McCoy
* Rickey Paulding
* Desmond Penigar
* Doron Perkins
* Bobby Brown
* Julius Jenkins
* Carl Krauser
* Vojdan Stojanovski

## Season by season

| Season | Tier | League | Pos. | German Cup | European competitions | European competitions | European competitions |
| 2001–02 | 1 | Bundesliga | 12th | Runner-up | | | |
| 2002–03 | 1 | Bundesliga | 6th | | | | |
| 2003–04 | 1 | Bundesliga | 5th | | | | |
| 2004–05 | 1 | Bundesliga | 7th | | | | |
| 2005–06 | 1 | Bundesliga | 8th | | | | |
| 2006–07 | 1 | Bundesliga | 9th | | | | |
| 2007–08 | 1 | Bundesliga | 3rd | | | | |
| 2008–09 | 1 | Bundesliga | 1st | | 3 EuroChallenge | T16 | 10–1–5 |
| 2009–10 | 1 | Bundesliga | 5th | Quarter-finalist | 1 Euroleague | RS | 1–9 |
| 2010–11 | 1 | Bundesliga | 6th | Quarter-finalist | 2 Eurocup | RS | 1–5 |
| 2011–12 | 1 | Bundesliga | 10th | Quarter-finalist | 3 EuroChallenge | T16 | 9–3 |
| 2012–13 | 1 | Bundesliga | 2nd | Quarter-finalist | 3 EuroChallenge | 3rd | 14–3 |
| 2013–14 | 1 | Bundesliga | 3rd | Quarter-finalist | 1 Euroleague | QR2 | 1–1 |
| 2013–14 | 1 | Bundesliga | 3rd | Quarter-finalist | 2 Eurocup | RS | 5–5 |
| 2014–15 | 1 | Bundesliga | 7th | Champion | 2 Eurocup | RS | 4–6 |
| 2015–16 | 1 | Bundesliga | 5th | Quarter-finalist | 2 Eurocup | EF | 8–8 |
| 2016–17 | 1 | Bundesliga | 2nd | | 3 Champions League | EF | 11–1–6 |
| 2017–18 | 1 | Bundesliga | 7th | | 3 Champions League | R16 | 10–6 |
| 2018–19 | 1 | Bundesliga | 3rd | Round of 16 | | | |
| 2019–20 | 1 | Bundesliga | 4th | Runner-up | 2 EuroCup | T16 | 8–8 |
| 2020–21 | 1 | Bundesliga | 5th | Group stage | | | |
| 2021–22 | 1 | Bundesliga | 11th | Round of 16 | 3 Champions League | RS | 1–5 |
| 2022–23 | 1 | Bundesliga | 6th | Runner-up | | | |
| 2023–24 | 1 | Bundesliga | 10th | Round of 16 | 3 Champions League | RS | 2–4 |
| 2024–25 | 1 | Bundesliga | | Round of 16 | | | |

## Colors and logos

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. 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.
* Logo used from 2004 to 2009
* Logo used from 2018 until today