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Depth Chart

Pos. Starter Bench Bench Reserve
C
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

Torin Francis
Torin Francis
Torin Jamal Francis is an American professional basketball player. He is 6'10¾" tall and he plays forward-center.-College career:...

 
Sven Schultze
Sven Schultze
Sven Schultze is a German professional basketball power forward/center. He is 2.08 m in height and he weighs 111 kg . He currently plays with the German club ALBA Berlin.-German national team:...

 
Yassin Idbihi 
PF
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...

Derrick Allen  Can-Jonathan Kleiner 
SF
Small forward
The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...

Marko Simonović  Joey Ney 
SG
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...

Kyle Weaver
Kyle Weaver
Kyle Donovan Weaver is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Washington State University, and was drafted 38th overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2008 NBA Draft...

 
Lucca Staiger
Lucca Staiger
Lucca Staiger is a German basketball player from Blaustein, Germany. Staiger competed in the United States for Iowa State University for a little under two seasons.-Junior career:...

 
Bryce Taylor
Bryce Taylor
Bryce Taylor is an American basketball player who played at the University of Oregon.-High school:Prior to arriving at the University of Oregon, Taylor starred at Harvard-Westlake School, where he set a school record by scoring 54 points in a game, as his team won three straight CIF...

 
PG
Point guard
Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

DaShaun Wood
DaShaun Wood
DaShaun Wood is an American basketball player. , he's under contract with Bundesliga club Alba Berlin. A point guard, Wood was named Horizon League Player of the Year in 2007 and Bundesliga MVP in 2011.- College career :...

 
Heiko Schaffartzik
Heiko Schaffartzik
Heiko Schaffartzik is a German professional basketball player. He is currently playing with the pro club ALBA Berlin in Germany.-German national team:...

 
  • Denotes injured player.

Championships

  • German Championships
    Basketball Bundesliga
    The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

    : 8 (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008)
  • German Cups: 6 (1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009)
  • Korać Cup
    Korac Cup
    The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

    s: 1 (1995)

Notable players

Matej Mamić
Matej Mamić
Matej Mamić is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. Currently he works as a Sports director in KK Cedevita.-References:*...

 Stephen Arigbabu
Stephen Arigbabu
Stephen Olumide Arigbabu is a former German professional basketball player. He is 2.12 m tall. Arigbabu plays at the center position.-Pro career:...

 Stephan Baeck Uwe Blab
Uwe Blab
Uwe Konstantin Blab is a retired German professional basketball player who had a five year career in the NBA.-School and college:...

-  Mithat Demirel
Mithat Demirel
Mithat Demirel is a German former professional basketball player of Turkish descent. He played for Erdemir SK of the Turkish Premier Basketball League before retiring. Formerly a member of Scafati Basket in Italy, Demirel also represented Germany internationally. He retired in 2010 due to an...

 Nino Garris Hansi Gnad
Hansi Gnad
Hansi Gnad is a retired German basketball player with the German national basketball team and German league squad Bayer Giants Leverkusen . He currently serves as head coach of the Giants Düsseldorf....

 Demond Greene
Demond Greene
Demond Greene is a dual German-American citizen and professional basketball player. He plays both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 1.86 m in height and he weighs 86 kg . His father is from the USA and his mother is German.Greene currently plays with the number 24 for...

 Henning Harnisch
Henning Harnisch
Henning Harnisch is a retired German professional basketball player. He is 2.03 m tall and played the Small Forward-Power Forward positions...

 Johannes Herber
Johannes Herber
Johannes Herber is a basketball player who plays for WALTER Tigers Tübingen in the German Basketball Bundesliga. In 2006, he completed a U.S. college career at West Virginia University...

-  Ademola Okulaja
Ademola Okulaja
Ademola Okulaja, is a former German professional basketball player. The last team he played for were the Brose Baskets from Germany...

-  Teoman Öztürk-  Marko Pešić Henrik Rödl
Henrik Rödl
Henrik Rödl is a retired German professional basketball player, and currently a basketball coach. He played college basketball in the US for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina...

 Sven Schultze
Sven Schultze
Sven Schultze is a German professional basketball power forward/center. He is 2.08 m in height and he weighs 111 kg . He currently plays with the German club ALBA Berlin.-German national team:...

 Christian Welp
Christian Welp
Christian Ansgar Welp is a retired German professional basketball player. Welp, a 213 cm , 111 kg center, became the leading scorer in Washington Huskies history as a college basketball player...

 Heiko Schaffartzik
Heiko Schaffartzik
Heiko Schaffartzik is a German professional basketball player. He is currently playing with the pro club ALBA Berlin in Germany.-German national team:...

Mario Primorac Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje
Ruben Bertrand Boumtje Boumtje is a retired Cameroonian professional basketball player. At 7'0" and 260 lbs, he played at center. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., U.S., and enjoyed a brief stint in the NBA...

 Jiří Zídek
George Zidek
Jiří Zídek, Jr., generally referred to in English as George Zidek , is a retired Czech professional basketball player. He was selected by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1st round of the 1995 NBA Draft...

 Tanel Tein
Tanel Tein
Tanel Tein is an Estonian retired professional basketball player.Tein's professional career started at the Estonian team KK Tartu in the 1993–94 season, when he joined at age of 15. He has been a member of the Estonia national basketball team since 1998 and was a member of the Estonian team in...

 Martynas Mazeika
Martynas Mažeika
Martynas Mažeika is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. He is 1.92 m tall. He can play point guard or shooting guard.-Pro career:...

 Goran Jeretin
Goran Jeretin
Goran Jeretin is a Montenegrin professional basketball player who plays for Artland Dragons.-Basketball career:...

 Goran Nikolić
Goran Nikolic
Goran Nikolić is a Montenegrin professional basketball player. He is 2.07 m in height and 111 kg in weight....

 Blagota Sekulić
Blagota Sekulic
Blagota Sekulić is a Montenegrin professional basketball player...

 Geert Hammink
Geert Hammink
Geert Hendrik Hammink is a retired Dutch professional basketball player who was selected by the Orlando Magic in the 1st round of the 1993 NBA Draft. Hammink played for the Magic and had a small stint with the Golden State Warriors in 3 NBA seasons. In his NBA career, Hammink appeared in 8 games...

 Kirk Penney
Kirk Penney
Kirk Samuel Penney is a New Zealander professional basketball player.-University of Wisconsin :...

 Szymon Szewczyk
Szymon Szewczyk
Szymon Szewczyk is a Polish professional basketball player.Szewczyk grew up with PKK Szczecin youth teams. He has been a member of the Polish Junior National Team, the Polish Under-20 National Team and the Polish “B” National Team...

 Vassili Karasev
Vassili Karasev
Vasily Nikolayevich Karasev ) is a Russian professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m 93 kg point guard, currently playing for Triumph Lyubertsy.-Pro career:...

 Dejan Koturović
Dejan Koturovic
Dejan Koturović is a retired Serbian professional basketball center. He helped Yugoslavia to gold at EuroBasket 1995 and the 2002 FIBA World Championship.-External links:* at acb.com* at legabasket.it* at euroleague.net...

 Saša Obradović
Saša Obradovic
Saša Obradović is a retired Serbian professional basketball player who spent his career in Europe. With KK Crvena zvezda he won 2 National Championships. Obradović was the head coach of BC Kyiv, he left the club due to the drastic cuts in clubs budget...

-  Vladimir Petrović
Vladimir Petrović (basketball)
Vladimir "Vlado" Petrović is a Serbian-Greek professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 6½ in tall shooting guard-small forward...

 Zoran Radović
Zoran Radovic
Zoran Radović is a retired Serbian basketball player and current FIBA administrator....

 Jovo Stanojević
Jovo Stanojevic
Jovo Stanojević is a Serbian professional basketball player. He currently plays with the Turkish pro club Pınar Karşıyaka.-External links:* at kls.rs* at tblstat.net* at euroleague.net...

 Teoman Alibegović
Wendell Alexis
Wendell Alexis
Wendell Alexis is a retired American basketball player who played for several European clubs between 1986 and 2004, most notably for ALBA Berlin, where he was voted MVP of the German Bundesliga three times during his 6-year stint.After attending Christ The King Regional High School, Alexis played...

 William Avery
William Avery (basketball)
William "Will" Franklin Avery Jr. is an American professional basketball player.-NBA:Avery, a 6 ft 2 ¾ in point guard from Duke University, was selected 14th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 1999 NBA Draft after his sophomore year, when he became one of the first players...

 John Best Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley (basketball)
Michael Thomas Bradley is an American professional basketball player and businessman. He is a 6 ft 10 in , 235 lb , power forward/center....

 Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown (basketball)
Robert 'Bobby' Douglas Brown is an American professional basketball player.-Amateur career:...

 John Celestand
John Celestand
John Celestand is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'4" shooting guard, Celestand attended Piscataway Township High School in Piscataway Township, New Jersey before playing collegiately at Villanova University. Celestand was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the No. 30...

 Terry Dehere
Terry Dehere
Lennox Dominique "Terry" Dehere is an American Democratic Party politician, restauranteur and retired NBA basketball player....

 Sharrod Ford
Sharrod Ford
Sharrod Ford is an American professional basketball player.Ford, a 6'9" forward, attended Clemson University from 2001-2005...

 Kiwane Garris
Kiwane Garris
Kiwane Garris is an American former professional basketball player. He was listed as a 6'2" , 183 lb point guard....

 Chris Owens
Chris Owens (basketball)
Haywood Christopher "Chris" Owens is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6'8½" , 250 lb. power forward. He is the great-nephew of 1930s African-American track and field star, Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...

 Mike Penberthy
Mike Penberthy
Mike Penberthy is an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" point guard from The Master's College, Penberthy was not drafted by an NBA team but did manage to play for the Los Angeles Lakers for two years...

 Derrick Phelps
Derrick Phelps
Derrick Michael Phelps is an American former professional basketball player. At 6' 4" and 181 lbs., he played as a point guard....

 Hollis Price
Hollis Price
Hollis Price is an American professional basketball player.- College career :Price played college basketball at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 to 2003. He helped to lead the Sooners to the Final Four in 2002...

 Kevin Rankin
Kevin Rankin
Kevin Rankin is a retired American/Turkish professional basketball player. He stands 2.10 m tall and played the power forward and center positions.-Amateur career:...

 Dijon Thompson
Dijon Thompson
Dijon Lynn Thompson is an American professional basketball player. While he played mainly at the shooting guard position in his early career, he proved he can also play as a small forward, during his European years.-College:Thompson was a standout at UCLA having an all time scoring average of 15.6...

 Luke Whitehead
Luke Whitehead
Luke Edward Whitehead is an American basketball player. He played forward for the University of Louisville...

 Mike Whitmarsh
Mike Whitmarsh
Michael John "Mike" Whitmarsh was an American volleyball player, who won the silver medal in the men's inaugural beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Mike Dodd. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from Monte Vista High School in nearby Spring Valley, and...


(famous for beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

) Michael Wright
Michael Wright (basketball)
Michael Wright is an American-Turkish professional basketball player, currently with Turkish team Turk Telekom...


Season by season

Season Tier League Pos. Postseason German Cup European competitions
1991–92 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

Runner-up Played European Cup
Saporta Cup
Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European professional club basketball competition, where the National Cup winners from all over Europe played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA Europe...

1992–93 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

Quarterfinalist Played Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

1993–94 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

Semifinalist Played Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

1994–95 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

Runner-up Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

 champion
1995–96 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

2 Runner-up Semifinalist Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

 quarterfinalist
1996–97 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Champion Played Euroleague
1997–98 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Euroleague quarterfinalist
1998–99 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Champion Played Euroleague
FIBA Euroleague 1998–99
Euroleague 1998-1999 season began on September 23, 1998 and ended on April 22, 1999. The Final four was held at Olympiahalle, Munich with Kauno Žalgiris defeating Kinder Bologna at the final in front of 9,000 spectators.-Preliminary round:-Group A:...

1999–00 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Runner-up Played Euroleague
2000–01 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion SuproLeague quarterfinalist
2001–02 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Champion Played Euroleague
2002–03 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Champion Played Euroleague
2003–04 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

3 Semifinalist Played Euroleague
2004–05 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

3 Semifinalist Played ULEB Cup
2005–06 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

2 Runner-up Champion Played ULEB Cup
ULEB Cup 2005–06
The ULEB Cup 2005-06 season was the third edition of Europe's second-tier level international basketball competition. The ULEB Cup is the level that is one tier below the Euroleague level. Dynamo Moscow won the trophy by defeating Aris in the final 73-60....

2006–07 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

5 Quarterfinalist Played ULEB Cup
2007–08 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

1 Champion Fourth position Played ULEB Cup
2008–09 1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

3 Semifinalist Champion Played Euroleague
2009–10
Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10
The Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10 was the 44th season of the Basketball Bundesliga. Ten days before the start of the season, Beko was presented as the new main sponsor of the BBL. The sponsorship agreement was made for a period of six years and included a rebranding of the league name to Beko BBL...

1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

6 Quarterfinalist Eurocup runner-up
2010–11
Basketball Bundesliga 2010–11
The Basketball Bundesliga 2010–11 was the 45th season of the Basketball Bundesliga . Prior to the start of the season, a new logo for the league was presented, combined with the motto "Spürst Du das Dribbeln?"...

1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

2 Runner-up Played Eurocup
2011–12
Basketball Bundesliga 2011–12
-Teams:PO: Playoff; Rel: Relegation; Pro A: Division below BBL-Main round standings:-See also:* German champions* Basketball Bundesliga 2010–11-References:...

1 Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga
The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

Eurocup

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