Shoeters Den Bosch
| New Heroes | |
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| Nickname | EBBC Titans |
| Leagues | Dutch Basketball League |
| Founded | 18 October 1952 |
| Arena | Maaspoort Sports and Events |
| Capacity | 2,700 |
| Location | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
| Team colors | Red, White, Blue |
| President | Jos Frederiks |
| Head coach | Silvano Poropat |
| Ownership | Bob van Oosterhout |
| Championships |
16 Dutch Championships 7 Dutch Cups 2 Dutch Supercup 1 Ricoh Cup 1 Haarlem Basketball Week |
| Website | newheroesbasketball |
| Uniforms | |
Den Bosch Basketball, for sponsorship reasons named New Heroes Basketball, is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The team currently plays in the Dutch Basketball League (DBL), the top basketball division in the Netherlands. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club would have several sponsored names the following decades.
Den Bosch has won a record sixteen Dutch championships as well as seven NBB Cups. The team has also been a regular at international competitions. Den Bosch plays their home games at the Maaspoort Sports & Events, which has a capacity of 2,700 people. The original name of the club is Eerste Bossche Basketball Club, shortly EBBC.
On October 18, 1952, EBBC was founded by Cees Vossen, Tom van der Leur, Hans van Oorschot and Frans van de Wiel. In 1962, Den Bosch played in the top division Eredivisie for the first time, but not very successful. Subsequently the team relegated again.
Decades later, in June 2005, Den Bosch merged with EiffelTowers Nijmegen to form EiffelTowers Den Bosch. Following the merger the club had one of the largest budgets in the Netherlands, and with that they were able to attract high quality players. In their first season they had immediate success by winning the Dutch League title. The year after that (2006–07) EiffelTowers The Bosch would win the title again after a clean sweep against the Matrixx Magixx, after losing only four games in the regular season. The two following years, Den Bosch reached the finals, but lost twice to Amsterdam.
In 2012, EiffelTowers won its fifteenth Dutch championship, after beating ZZ Leiden 1–4 in a best-of-seven-series.
After 13 years playing as the EiffelTowers, the club changed its name to SPM Shoeters in 2013. Along with the name change the club changed the team colors to black, after playing in red since 2000. In the 2014–15 season, Shoeters won its sixteenth DBL championship after Donar was beaten 4–1 in the Finals. The team also performed excellent in the EuroChallenge that season, reaching the Top 16. Star of the season for Den Bosch was Brandyn Curry, who was named DBL Playoffs MVP.
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