Unicaja Málaga
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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 | 11,300 | ||
| 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 EuroCup 1 Korać Cup |
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| Retired numbers | 1 (#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 that is 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 of Málaga, CB Caja de Ronda and CB Maristas. Over the years, the club has featured players like: Nacho Rodríguez, Berni Rodríguez, Carlos Cabezas, Jorge Garbajosa, Marcus Brown, Sergei Babkov, Michael Ansley, Louis Bullock, and Kenny Miller, as well as numerous other well-known players. The club won its first title, when it won the European-wide third tier level FIBA Korać Cup in the 2000–01 season. They then won the Spanish King's Cup title in 2005. The next year, in the 2005–06 season, Unicaja won its first-ever Spanish League championship.
The club finished its best years to date, by qualifying for the 2007 EuroLeague Final Four, where it was defeated in the semifinals by CSKA Moscow, and thus finished in third place in the EuroLeague. In October 2007, Unicaja faced the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies in a friendly match, and they defeated the Grizzlies, by a score of 102–99. That was one of the 17 times that an NBA team has lost to a foreign club. Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro, two of the greatest Spanish basketball players of all time, played for Memphis in that historical game.
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