Arena Capacity 11,000 Championships 1 | President Eduardo García López Founded 1992 | |
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History Unicaja Mayoral(1992–1993)Unicaja Polti(1993–1994)Unicaja(1994–present) Team colors Forest Green, White, Purple and Lime Profiles | ||
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.
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History
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.
Home arenas
Honours
National:
International:
Notable players
To appear in this section a player must have either:Reserve team
Baloncesto Málaga B is the reserve team of Unicaja, basketball based in Málaga.
As from 2007, Baloncesto Málaga has an agreement with CB Axarquía to play as farm team, Baloncesto Málaga B, which plays also as Unicaja is the third team of Unicaja.