CB Gran Canaria

CB Gran Canaria
Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria – Claret, S.A.D., currently known as Dreamland Gran Canaria due to sponsorship, is a professional basketball club based in Las Palmas, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home venue is the Gran Canaria Arena.
History
CB Gran Canaria was founded inside Claret School and for many years played under that denomination. Following a successful period in school competitions, a senior team was created and integrated on the Spanish Second Division. The team played in that division until 1984, when the team adopted the decision of having a statute of its own, therefore becoming an independent institution. The new statute was approved on May 22, 1985 and the team became Claret Club de Baloncesto.
The following years, the team moved many times between Liga ACB and 1st Division B. On the 1987–88 season the club changed its name to CB Gran Canaria, paying homage to the place where its social mass came from. On 30 June 1992 the team became a sports public limited company (Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, SAD in Spanish) in order to fulfil with the requirements of the then-new Spanish sports legislation.
After three seasons in the Spanish silver division the team won the first Liga EBA in the 1994–95 season and was promoted to Liga ACB. From that season on, CB Gran Canaria has stayed in the top level of the Spanish basketball. The 2012–13 represents the team's eighteenth consecutive season in Liga ACB.
In April 2015, Gran Canaria played the Eurocup Finals. The team was defeated by BC Khimki in the two legs. Ten months later, the club qualified for the first time to a final of a national trophy. In the 2016 Copa del Rey defeated Valencia Basket in the quarterfinals and Dominion Bilbao Basket in the semifinals, but could not beat Real Madrid in the final, where it lost by 81–85.
On 24 September 2016, Gran Canaria won its first national title after beating FC Barcelona 79–59 in the Final of the 2016 Supercopa played in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
One season later, in June 2018, Gran Canaria qualified for the second time to the league semifinals and also achieved qualification to the EuroLeague for the first time ever.
Sponsorship naming
Through the years CB Gran Canaria has had several denominations due to its sponsorship:
Logos
Home arenas
Centro Insular de Deportes: (until 2014)
Gran Canaria Arena: (2014–present)
Players
Retired numbers
Current roster
Depth chart
Head coaches
Joaquín Costa: 1985–90
Manolo Hussein: 1990–92, 1995–2002
Trifón Poch: 1992–94
Roberto Orellana: 1994–95
Salva Maldonado: 2005–09, 2018
Pedro Martínez: 2002–05, 2009–2014, 2019
Aíto García Reneses: 2014–2016
Luis Casimiro: 2016–2018
Víctor García: 2018
Fotios Katsikaris: 2019–2020
Porfirio Fisac: 2020–2022
Jaka Lakovič: 2022–present
Season by season
Trophies and awards
Trophies
Supercopa de España: (1)
2016
EuroCup Basketball: (1)
2023
Copa del Rey:
Runners-up (1): 2016
2nd division championships: (2)
1ª División B: (1) 1991
Liga EBA: (1) 1995
Copa Toyota: (7)
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013
Trofeo Gobierno de Canarias: (4)
2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
Runners-up (4): 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011
Rome, Italy Invitational Game: (1)
2009
Individual awards
All-ACB Team
Jaycee Carroll – 2011
Supercup MVP
Kyle Kuric – 2016
EuroCup Finals MVP
John Shurna – 2023
All-EuroCup First Team
Walter Tavares – 2015
Alen Omić – 2016
John Shurna – 2023
All-EuroCup Second Team
James Augustine – 2010
Kyle Kuric – 2015
Kevin Pangos – 2016
Notable players
Berdi Pérez
Roberto Íñiguez
Xavi Rabaseda
Fran Vázquez
Jorge Racca
Brad Newley
Carl English
Walter Tavares
Siim-Sander Vene
Michael Bramos
Joel Freeland
Kornél Dávid
Vincenzo Esposito
- Jim Moran
- Jay Larrañaga
- Pat Burke
Gal Mekel
Anžejs Pasečņiks
- Bo McCalebb
Kirk Penney
- Sitapha Savané
Willie 'Hutch' Jones
Tom Scheffler
Shaun Vandiver
Albert Burditt
John Morton
Bernard Hopkins
Kenny Miller
Rex Walters
Marcus Goree
- Ime Udoka
Will McDonald
Billy Keys
Kennedy Winston
Harper Williams
- Marcus Norris
- Jackson Vroman
- Nik Caner-Medley
James Augustine
- CJ Wallace
- Jaycee Carroll
References
External links
Official website
CB Gran Canaria at ACB.com
Basketball teams in the Canary Islands
Basketball teams established in 1963
Liga ACB teams
Sport in Las Palmas