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Capitalinos de San Juan

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Leagues
  
BSN

Location
  
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Away
  
Alternate

Dissolved
  
1998

Home
  
Away

Date founded
  
1930

League
  
Baloncesto Superior Nacional

Championships
  
5 (1930, 1931, 1940, 1945, 1958)

The Capitalinos de San Juan was a Puerto Rican basketball team based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They played in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). The Capitalinos are the first Puerto Rican basketball champions, the team was very successful having won five championships from the 1930s through the 1950s.

For a long period beginning in the late 1970s until the early 1990s, the franchise did not operate. The Capitalinos returned during the 1990s, posting poor win-loss records.

In 1998, producer and entrepreneur Angelo Medina acquired the Capitalinos and the Tiburones de Aguadilla, merging them into a new version of the Cangrejeros de Santurce.

References

Capitalinos de San Juan Wikipedia