Club Athletico Paulistano (basketball)
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| Leagues |
NBB LSB |
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| Founded | 29 December 1900 (basketball department founded in 1993) |
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| Arena |
Ginásio Antônio Prado Junior (capacity: 1,500) |
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| Location | São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Team colors | (White, Crayola) | ||
| President | José Manuel Castro Santos | ||
| Head coach |
 Gustavo de Conti
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| Website | paulistano.org.br | ||
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Club Athletico Paulistano basketball section is part of the Brazilian multi-sports institution Paulistano, based in São Paulo, Brazil. The team competes in the Brazilian league, Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB). Marcelinho Huertas started his career at Paulistano. For sponsorship reasons, the club is also currently known as Paulistano/Unimed, or Paulistano Unimed, for the name sponsor Unimed.
Paulistano was the first team of the point guard Marcelinho Huertas, current player and captain of the Brazil national basketball team. In the NBB 2009-2010 season, the managers hired the center Rafael "Baby" Araujo, who had just been national champion with Flamengo, a season before. But the team did not made a good campaign and finished the season in eleventh place. The following season was even worse than the previous and Paulistano finished the season in twelfth place. But in the NBB 2011-2012 season, under the command of coach Gustavo de Conti and led in the court by the young players Elinho Neto and Betinho Duarte, Paulistano did its best campaign in the NBB's history, finishing in seventh place in the regular season. In the playoffs, the experienced team of Franca defeated the young team from São Paulo. For the following season, Paulistano lost Betinho Duarte for Minas and Guillermo Araújo for its greatest rival Pinheiros.
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