Saski Baskonia

Laboral Kutxa Baskonia
2015–16 Saski Baskonia season
Leagues	Liga ACB Euroleague
Founded	1959
History	Club Deportivo Vasconia (1959–1976) Club Deportivo Basconia (1976–1987) Club Deportivo Saski-Baskonia S.A.D. (1987–present)
Arena	Fernando Buesa Arena
Arena Capacity	15,504
Location	Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Team colors	Red, Blue, White, Green
Main sponsor	Laboral Kutxa
President	José Antonio Querejeta
Head coach	Velimir Perasović
Team captain	Fabien Causeur
Championships	3 Spanish Championships 6 Spanish Cups 4 Spanish Supercups 1 Saporta Cup
Website	baskonia.com
Uniforms
Home Away Euroleague

Club Deportivo Saski-Baskonia S.A.D., known as Laboral Kutxa for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish professional basketball club from the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The club's name sponsor is the Basque credit union Laboral Kutxa.

Well-known players who have played with the club have included Velimir Perasović, José Calderón, Arvydas Macijauskas, Andrés Nocioni, Fabricio Oberto, Pablo Prigioni, Igor Rakočević, Luis Scola, Goran Dragić, Tiago Splitter, Mirza Teletović, Zoran Planinić, Thomas Heurtel, and Fernando San Emeterio.

Sponsorship naming

Outside of Spain, the club was often referred to for years as TAU Cerámica, a Spanish brand name of ceramics manufacturer TAULELL, which name sponsored the club from 1987–2009. Originally, TAULELL used another of its brand names, Taugrés, as the name of the team, before changing the name to TAU Cerámica in 1997. TAU, Taugrés and TAU Vitoria were also frequently used to refer to the team. Baskonia, Saski Baskonia, and Saski Baskonia, S.A.D. refer to the name of the actual sports club itself. In 2009, the Spanish credit union Caja Laboral became the new name sponsor of the club and increased the amount of money that the name sponsor contributes to the sports club's budget.

• Schweppes (1974–77)
• Sallkon (1977–80)
• Embutidos Celedón (1981–82)
• Caja Álava (1983–1987)
• Taugrés / TAU Cerámica (1987–2009)
• Caja Laboral / Laboral Kutxa (2009–present)

History

The club was founded in 1959 as the basketball section of Club Deportivo Vasconia. It first played at Spain's highest level in 1971, and emerged as a major force in Spanish basketball in the 1990s. Most recently, Baskonia advanced to the Euroleague Final Four in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, losing to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 2005 final and 2006 semifinals, to Panathinaikos in the 2007 semifinals, and to CSKA Moscow in the 2008 semifinals.

Through outstanding scouting and shrewd management, Baskonia has built a squad that has been to four straight Final Fours and now is looking to take the last step to becoming a Euroleague champion. Baskonia's first trophy of any kind came in 1995, the Spanish King's Cup, when Pablo Laso and Velimir Perasović led the team to an historical win. The club was already making noise internationally too, reaching the Saporta Cup final in both 1994 and 1995.

When it hosted the same title game in 1996, Baskonia pleased its many fans by downing PAOK behind 31 points from Ramón Rivas. Baskonia made its first Spanish Championship playoff final in 1998 and added a second Spanish King's Cup title in 1999.

Fernando Buesa Arena (formerly known as Araba Arena), home of Baskonia since 1991

They then found quick success in the newborn Euroleague. With a deep roster featuring Elmer Bennett, Saulius Štombergas, Victor Alexander, Fabricio Oberto and a young Luis Scola, Baskonia reached the 2001 Euroleague Finals before losing to Kinder Bologna in the fifth and final game on the road. With winning momentum and the additions of Dejan Tomašević and Andrés Nocioni, Baskonia celebrated the next season with another Spanish King's Cup trophy and its first Spanish League title ever. Trophy lifting became a habit now. Baskonia snatched two more Spanish King's Cups, in 2004 and 2006, as Luis Scola and Pablo Prigioni played decisive roles, and success followed the team in the Euroleague. Baskonia's arrival to its first Final Four in 2005 couldn’t have been louder, as the team upset favored host CSKA Moscow in the semifinals, but couldn’t overcome defending champ Maccabi in the title game.

Back home, Baskonia again reached the Spanish League finals, only to lose in dramatic fashion. Baskonia returned to the Final Four in 2006 but once again Maccabi stood in its way, this time in the semifinal. The team also made it to the Spanish League finals, but was swept there.

Fernando Buesa Arena at night

The next season, Baskonia won its Euroleague regular season and Top 16 groups before sweeping Olympiacos in the Quarterfinal Playoffs as Scola became the Euroleague's top all-time scorer (counting games played since the year 2000 only). Nonetheless, eventual champion Panathinaikos downed Baskonia in the semifinals and once home again in Spain, Baskonia lost in the playoff semifinals. Coming so close, but walking away without any trophies is sure to make Baskonia as hungry as ever going forward.

With a solid track record for building some of the most competitive teams in the world, it is safe to say that Baskonia is always a top candidate for Euroleague greatness.

Players

See also: Category:Saski Baskonia players

Current roster

Laboral Kutxa Baskonia roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 20 Adams, Darius 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 75 kg (165 lb) – (1989-04-17)17 April 1989 G/F 11 Blažič, Jaka 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 96 kg (212 lb) – (1990-06-30)30 June 1990 F 42 Bertāns, Dāvis 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 95 kg (209 lb) – (1992-11-12)12 November 1992 C 9 Bourousis, Ioannis 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 122 kg (269 lb) – (1983-11-17)17 November 1983 G 5 Causeur, Fabien  (C) 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 90 kg (198 lb) – (1987-06-16)16 June 1987 G/F 33 Corbacho, Alberto 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 97 kg (214 lb) – (1984-10-01)1 October 1984 C 12 Diop, Ilimane 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 104 kg (229 lb) – (1995-04-04)4 April 1995 F 4 Diop, Mamadou (TP) 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 95 kg (209 lb) – (1993-02-14)14 February 1993 G/F 8 Hanga, Ádám 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 93 kg (205 lb) – (1989-04-12)12 April 1989 G 3 James, Mike 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 84 kg (185 lb) – (1990-08-18)18 August 1990 SG 1 Roll, Michael 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 92 kg (203 lb) – (1987-04-12)12 April 1987 F 7 Shengelia, Tornike 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 109 kg (240 lb) – (1991-10-05)5 October 1991 C 6 Planinić, Darko 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 120 kg (265 lb) – (1990-11-22)22 November 1990 F/C 14 Tillie, Kim 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 105 kg (231 lb) – (1988-07-15)15 July 1988	Head coach Velimir Perasović Assistant coach(es) Agustí Julbe David Gil Legend (C) Team captain (TP) Training player Injured Roster Updated: 24 May 2016

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Ilimane Diop	Ioannis Bourousis	Darko Planinić
PF	Tornike Shengelia	Kim Tillie		Mamadou Diop
SF	Ádám Hanga	Dāvis Bertāns
SG	Fabien Causeur	Jaka Blažič	Alberto Corbacho
PG	Darius Adams	Mike James

From the Youth Squad

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

No. Position Player — PF Daniel Bordignon (out on loan at Peñas Huesca) 11 G/F Tadas Sedekerskis (out on loan at Peñas Huesca) 30 PG Devon van Oostrum (out on loan at Arkadikos) — C Filip Petrusev — PG Luka Bulashvili

No. Position Player 18 G/F Carlos Martínez (out on loan at Fundación Lucentum) — F Rinalds Mālmanis (out on loan at Araberri) — F Jurij Macura — PG Artūrs Kurucs

Head coaches

Further information: Category:Saski Baskonia coaches

Iñaki Iriarte 1981–1983 Juan Antonio Ortiz de Pinedo 1983 Txema Capetillo 1983–1984 Xabier Añúa 1984–1985 Pepe Laso 1985–1987 Manu Moreno 1987–1989 Željko Pavličević 1989–1990 Herb Brown 1990–1992 Iñaki Iriarte 1992–1993

Manel Comas 1993–1997 Sergio Scariolo 1997–1999 Salva Maldonado 1999 Julio Lamas 1999–2000 Duško Ivanović 2000–2005 Pedro Martínez 2005 Natxo Lezkano 2005 Velimir Perasović 2005–2007 Božidar Maljković 2007

Neven Spahija 2007–2008 Duško Ivanović 2008–2012 Žan Tabak 2012–2013 Sergio Scariolo 2013–2014 Marco Crespi 2014 Ibon Navarro 2014–2015 Velimir Perasović 2015–present

Logos

• Saski Baskonia Logo.gif

  Non commercial logo since 1987

• TAU Ceramica.png

  TAU sponsorship logo (1987–2009)

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  Caja Laboral sponsorship logo (2009–2013)

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  Laboral Kutxa sponsorship logo (2013–present)

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason	RS	PO	Copa del Rey	Other cups		European competitions
1959	Foundation of Club Deportivo Vasconia
1959–60	4	Provincial	2	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1960–61	4	Provincial	2	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1961–62	4	Provincial	1	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1962–63	4	Provincial	2	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1963–64	4	Provincial	1	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1964–65	4	Provincial	2	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1965–66	4	Provincial	1	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1966–67	4	Provincial	2	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1967–68	4	Provincial	1	–			–	–	–	–	–	–
1968–69	4	Provincial	1	Promoted			–	–	–	–	–	–
1969–70	3	3ª División	1	Promoted			–	–	–	–	–	–
1970–71	2	2ª División	2	–	16–4	4–0	–	–	–	–	–	–
1971–72	2	2ª División	1	PromotedChampion	19–3	2–0	–	–	–	–	–	–
1972–73	1	1ª División	10	–	12–18	–	Semifinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1973–74	1	1ª División	8	–	12–16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1974–75	1	1ª División	8	–	8–14	–	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1975–76	1	1ª División	8	Relegation group	8–14	6–4	–	–	–	–	–	–
1976–77	1	1ª División	10	–	8–14	–	First Round	–	–	–	–	–
1977–78	1	1ª División	10	–	7–1–14	–	First Round	–	–	–	–	–
1978–79	1	1ª División	8	–	9–13	–	Semifinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1979–80	1	1ª División	11	–	5–2–15	–	Round of 16	–	–	–	–	–
1980–81	1	1ª División	14	Relegated	6–20	–	Round of 16	–	–	–	–	–
1981–82	2	1ª División B	2	Promoted	19–1–6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1982–83	1	1ª División	13	–	3–3–20	–	Round of 16	–	–	–	–	–
1983–84	1	Liga ACB	9	Round of 16	7–21	2–1	Round of 16	–	–	–	–	–
1984–85	1	Liga ACB	10	Round of 16	8–20	0–2	–	Copa Asociación	C	–	–	–
1985–86	1	Liga ACB	9	Round of 16	16–12	0–2	–	Copa Príncipe	QF	3 Korać Cup	R2	0–1–1
1986–87	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	13–15	2–3	–	Copa Príncipe	R16	–	–	–
1987	Converting in Saski-Baskonia S.A.D.
1987–88	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	16–12	3–2	–	Copa Príncipe	R16	–	–	–
1988–89	1	Liga ACB	7	Quarterfinalist	21–15	0–2	Round of 16	–	–	–	–	–
1989–90	1	Liga ACB	7	Quarterfinalist	23–13	0–2	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1990–91	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	21–13	5–3	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1991–92	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	24–10	6–5	Quarterfinalist	–	–	3 Korać Cup	QF	6–6
1992–93	1	Liga ACB	11	Round of 16	17–14	2–0	Third position	–	–	3 Korać Cup	GS	6–4
1993–94	1	Liga ACB	11	Round of 16	16–12	1–3	Runner-up	–	–	2 European Cup	RU	11–4
1994–95	1	Liga ACB	5	Quarterfinalist	23–15	1–2	Champion	–	–	2 European Cup	RU	12–3
1995–96	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	21–17	1–2	–	–	–	2 European Cup	C	13–1–3
1996–97	1	Liga ACB	5	Quarterfinalist	20–14	1–3	–	–	–	3 Korać Cup	R16	8–2
1997–98	1	Liga ACB	2	Runner-up	27–7	7–3	Quarterfinalist	–	–	3 Korać Cup	R32	5–3
1998–99	1	Liga ACB	5	Quarterfinalist	24–10	1–3	Champion	–	–	1 Euroleague	GS	4–6
1999–00	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	21–13	4–5	Quarterfinalist	–	–	2 Saporta Cup	R16	9–5
2000–01	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	27–7	5–4	Quarterfinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	RU	15–7
2001–02	1	Liga ACB	1	Champion	24–10	9–2	Champion	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	13–7
2002–03	1	Liga ACB	6	Quarterfinalist	18–16	2–3	Runner-up	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	11–9
2003–04	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	28–6	4–4	Champion	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	13–7
2004–05	1	Liga ACB	2	Runner-up	28–6	8–5	Semifinalist	Supercopa	4th	1 Euroleague	RU	13–11
2005–06	1	Liga ACB	2	Runner-up	25–9	6–4	Champion	Supercopa	C	1 Euroleague	3rd	18–7
2006–07	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	26–8	5–3	Semifinalist	Supercopa	C	1 Euroleague	4th	20–4
2007–08	1	Liga ACB	1	Champion	22–12	7–1	Runner-up	Supercopa	C	1 Euroleague	4th	16–9
2008–09	1	Liga ACB	2	Runner-up	28–4	5–4	Champion	Supercopa	C	1 Euroleague	QF	14–7
2009–10	1	Liga ACB	1	Champion	27–7	8–2	Semifinalist	Supercopa	SF	1 Euroleague	QF	11–9
2010–11	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	23–11	2–3	Semifinalist	Supercopa	SF	1 Euroleague	QF	10–10
2011–12	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	23–11	4–3	Semifinalist	Supercopa	RU	1 Euroleague	RS	5–5
2012–13	1	Liga ACB	5	Quarterfinalist	25–9	1–2	Semifinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	QF	13–15
2013–14	1	Liga ACB	6	Quarterfinalist	19–15	0–2	Quarterfinalist	Supercopa	SF	1 Euroleague	T16	11–13
2014–15	1	Liga ACB	6	Quarterfinalist	19–15	1–2	–	Supercopa	SF	1 Euroleague	T16	11–13
2015–16	1	Liga ACB						–	–	1 Euroleague

Honours

Domestic competitions

Spanish Championship

• Winners (3): 2001–02, 2007–08, 2009–10

Spanish Cup

• Winners (6): 1995, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009

Spanish Supercup

• Winners (4): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Copa Asociación

• Winners (1): 1985

2nd Division

• Winners (1): 1971–72

Basque Cup

• Winners (2): 2011, 2012

European competitions

Euroleague

• Runners-up (2): 2000–01, 2004–05

FIBA Saporta Cup

• Winners (1): 1995–96
• Runners-up (2): 1993–94, 1994–95

Individual awards

ACB Most Valuable Player

• Kenny Green – 1997
• Andrés Nocioni – 2004
• Luis Scola – 2005, 2007
• Tiago Splitter – 2010
• Fernando San Emeterio – 2011

ACB Rising Star

• Mirza Teletović – 2008

ACB Finals MVP

• Elmer Bennett – 2002
• Pete Mickeal – 2008
• Tiago Splitter – 2010

Spanish Cup MVP

• Joe Arlauckas – 1993
• Velimir Perasović – 1994
• Pablo Laso – 1995
• Elmer Bennett – 1999
• Dejan Tomašević – 2002
• Pablo Prigioni – 2007
• Mirza Teletović – 2009

Supercup MVP

• Luis Scola – 2005
• Tiago Splitter – 2006, 2007
• Pablo Prigioni – 2008

ACB Three Point Shootout Champion

• Juan Espil – 1997
• Igor Rakočević – 2007

All-ACB First Team

• Andrés Nocioni – 2004, 2013
• Luis Scola – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• José Calderón – 2005
• Pablo Prigioni – 2006, 2007, 2009
• Igor Rakočević – 2009
• Tiago Splitter – 2010
• Marcelinho Huertas – 2011
• Fernando San Emeterio – 2011
• Mirza Teletović – 2012

All-Euroleague First Team

• Dejan Tomašević – 2002
• Arvydas Macijauskas – 2005
• Luis Scola – 2006, 2007
• Tiago Splitter – 2008
• Igor Rakočević – 2009
• Fernando San Emeterio – 2011

All-Euroleague Second Team

• Andrés Nocioni – 2003, 2004
• Luis Scola – 2005
• Pablo Prigioni – 2006, 2007
• Igor Rakočević – 2007
• Tiago Splitter – 2009, 2010

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

• Played at least one season for the club.
• 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.
• To perform very successfully during period in the club or at later/previous stages of his career.

José Calderón Fernando San Emeterio Pau Ribas Sergi Vidal Jorge Garbajosa Mikel Cuadra Xabier Davalillo Vicente Lafuente Pablo Laso Alberto Ortega Aitor Zárate Carlos Cazorla Roberto Íñiguez Marcelinho Huertas Tiago Splitter Essie Hollis Scooter Barry Ryan Bowen Casey Jacobsen Travis Hansen Victor Alexander Jerome Allen J. J. Anderson Joe Arlauckas Ken Bannister Elmer Bennett Anthony Bonner Rickey Brown Lionel Chalmers Chris Corchiani Pat Durham

Linton Johnson Randolph Keys Pete Mickeal Will McDonald Larry Micheaux Drew Nicholas Dan O'Sullivan Lamar Odom Lou Roe Brent Scott James Singleton Matt Steigenga Nikita Wilson David Wood Rashard Griffith Pat Burke Luis Scola Walter Herrmann Pablo Prigioni Fabricio Oberto Marcelo Nicola Andrés Nocioni Tibor Pleiß Stefano Rusconi Predrag Drobnjak Kornél Dávid Arvydas Macijauskas Saulius Štombergas Mindaugas Timinskas Simas Jasaitis Rimantas Kaukėnas

Miroslav Berić Dejan Tomašević Igor Rakočević Vladimir Micov Hanno Möttölä Velimir Perasović Zoran Planinić Roko Ukić Richard Petruška Ender Arslan Serkan Erdoğan Kaya Peker Andrew Betts Kevin Seraphin Jim Bilba Laurent Foirest Thomas Heurtel William Warren Phillips Christos Harisis Lior Eliyahu Mirza Teletović Goran Dragić Thomas Kelati Maciej Lampe David Logan Ramón Rivas

Matches against NBA teams

14 October 2010

Boxscore

Memphis Grizzlies

110–105

Caja Laboral

FedExForum, Memphis, TN

16 October 2010

Boxscore

San Antonio Spurs

108–85

Caja Laboral

AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX

Fundación 5+11

Fundación 5+11 is the reserve team of Baskonia. Formerly called Fundación Baskonia, its current name becomes from the agreement between the club and Deportivo Alavés, the main football club in Vitoria. It currently plays in Primera División, fifth tier of Spanish basketball.

In the 2000–01 season, it played in Liga EBA with Tiago Splitter as its most important player.

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason	RS	PO
2000–01	4	Liga EBA	15	Relegated	9–21	–
2001–05	5	1ª División		–
2005–06	5	1ª División	13	–	20–10	–
2006–07	5	1ª División	3	–	20–6	–
2007–08	6	1ª División	6	–	13–15	–
2008–09	6	1ª División	4	–	20–8	–
2009–10	5	1ª División	15	–	15–13	–
2010–11	5	1ª División	7	–	16–12	–
2011–12	5	1ª División	7	–	13–15	–
2012–13	5	1ª División	16	Relegated	2–28	–
2013–14	5	1ª División	9	–	13–15	–
2014–15	5	1ª División	1	Promoted	22–4	–
2015–16	5	1ª División

External links

• Official website
• Saski Baskonia at ACB.com (Spanish)
• Saski Baskonia at Euroleague.net