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CB Bilbao Berri

RETAbet Bilbao Basket
RETAbet Bilbao Basket logo
Nickname Hombres de negro
(Men in Black)
Leagues Liga ACB
Founded 7 March 2000; 17 years ago (2000-03-07)
History Basket Bilbao Berri
(2000–2002)
Bilbao Basket
(2002–present)
Arena Bilbao Arena
Arena Capacity 10,014
Location Bilbao, Spain
Team colors Black, Silver
         
Main sponsor RETAbet
President Koldo Mauraza
Head coach Carles Durán
Team captain Alex Mumbrú
Retired numbers 14 Javi Salgado
Website Official website
Uniforms
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Home jersey
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Team colours
Home
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Away jersey
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Team colours
Away

Bilbao Basket, also known as RETAbet Bilbao Basket by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Bilbao, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Bilbao Arena.

The club was founded in 2000 replacing the former city clubs: Cajabilbao and SD Patronato. After four seasons between LEB and LEB 2, Bilbao promoted to Liga ACB in 2004 by winning by 3–1 to Baloncesto León in the LEB semifinals.

Bilbao spent ten seasons in the top tier of the Spanish basketball becoming finalist of the league in the 2010–11 season, where it lost in the finals to FC Barcelona by 3–0. In 2012, Bilbao played the Euroleague and it was eliminated in the quarterfinals by CSKA Moscow, who won the series by 3–1.

The best era of the club finished in 2013, when it lost the 2013 Eurocup Final at Charleroi against Lokomotiv Kuban.

On 17 July 2014, the ACB excluded Bilbao Basket from the Liga ACB due to its financial trouble, but on August 8, the Association was forced to retire the exclusion and finally Bilbao Basket will continue in the Spanish top league.

Bilbao Basket has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:

Non-commercial logo since 2009

2007–2009

2015–2016

All-ACB First Team


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