Baskets Oldenburg

Baskets Oldenburg,^[2] 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.

EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Leagues	BBL
Founded	2001; 24 years ago (2001)
History	Oldenburger TB 1954–2001 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2001–present
Arena	Large EWE Arena (occasional games at the Small EWE Arena)
Capacity	6,069
Location	Oldenburg, Germany
Team colors	Blue, yellow[1]
President	Hermann Schüller Gerold Lange
Head coach	Predrag Krunić
Affiliation(s)	EWE Baskets Juniors
Championships	1 German Championship 1 German Cup 1 German Supercup
Retired numbers	4 (6, 8, 14, 23)
Website	www.ewe-baskets.de
Home Away

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

Arenas

Game in the EWE Arena in January 2019

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[5]
No.	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
6		Daniel Strauch	PF	2003–2010
8		Pavel Bečka	C	1995–2004
				2006
14		Tyron McCoy	SG	2001–2007
23		Rickey Paulding	SF	2007–2022

Current roster

EWE Baskets Oldenburg roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age G 3 DiLeo, Max 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 32 – (1993-03-12)12 March 1993 G 7 Hemschemeier, Fritz 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 26 – (1998-12-10)10 December 1998 G 19 Fugett, Jon'il 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 25 – (1999-11-28)28 November 1999 C 20 Harms, Joel 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 107 kg (236 lb) 22 – (2002-12-12)12 December 2002 F 21 Hinrichs, Seth 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 32 – (1993-03-24)24 March 1993 SF 34 Konontšuk, Artur 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 25 – (2000-05-09)9 May 2000 G Olison, Tevin 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 26 – (1998-09-28)28 September 1998 G/F Tischler, Nicholas 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 24 – (2000-08-18)18 August 2000 G Hounnou, Ralph 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 23 – (2002-01-16)16 January 2002 SF Penn, Eral 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 26 – (1998-10-02)2 October 1998 F/C Kyser, Michale 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 33 – (1991-11-26)26 November 1991 G/F Tucker, Dakarai 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 31 – (1994-05-13)13 May 1994	Head coach Predrag Krunić Assistant coach(es) Lazar Spasić Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Development player Injured Roster Updated: July 21, 2025

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

Fans of Oldenburg during a Playoff game in the 2013–14 season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	German Cup	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
					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	9th	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.^[6] 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.^[7]

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