Baloncesto Malaga
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| Leagues |
Liga ACB EuroCup |
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| Founded | 1992 | ||
| History |
Unicaja Mayoral (1992–1993) Unicaja Polti (1993–1994) Unicaja (1994–present) |
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| Arena | Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena | ||
| Capacity | 11,000 | ||
| Location | Málaga, Andalusia | ||
| Team colors | Forest Green, White, Purple and Lime |
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| President | Eduardo García López | ||
| Head coach | Joan Plaza | ||
| Ownership | Unicaja | ||
| Championships |
1 Spanish Championship 1 Spanish Cup 1 Korać Cup |
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| Retired numbers | (5) Berni Rodríguez | ||
| Website | unicajabaloncesto.com | ||
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Baloncesto Málaga, S.A.D., more commonly referred as Unicaja, is a Spanish professional basketball team based in Málaga, Andalusia. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup.
Unicaja was founded in 1992 as a merger of the two ACB teams in the city:
The club won its first title, the Korać Cup in 2001. They then won the Spanish King's Cup championship in 2005. The next year in 2006, Unicaja won its first-ever Spanish Championship. It finished its best years in 2007 qualifying for the Euroleague Final Four, where it was defeated in the semifinals by CSKA Moscow, finished in third place.
In October 2007, Unicaja faced the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies in a friendly match, defeating them 102–99. This is one of the few times an NBA team has lost to an overseas club. Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro, two of the greatest Spanish basketball players of all time, played for Memphis in that historical game.
The club has over the years featured players like Nacho Rodríguez, Berni Rodríguez, Carlos Cabezas, Jorge Garbajosa, Marcus Brown, Sergei Babkov, Michael Ansley, Louis Bullock, Kenny Miller, and others. In 2007, Unicaja finished in third place in the Euroleague competition, marking the club's best ever Euroleague season to that point.
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