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Wikipedia - Hamburg Towers
Hamburg Towers, for sponsorship reasons named Veolia Towers Hamburg, is a professional basketball team, based in Hamburg, Germany. The Towers are currently playing in the Basketball Bundesliga, after promoting from the ProA in 2019.
Founded in 2013, the club played in the ProA from the 2014–15 season. In 2019, Hamburg promoted to the BBL for the first time. Since 2014, their home arena is the Edel-optics.de Arena in Wilhelmsburg. It has capacity for 3,400 people.
History
In February 2013, former player Pascal Roller and entrepreneur Wolfgang Sahm announced their plans to bring back professional basketball to Hamburg. There had been no professional basketball in the city since the bankruptcy of BCJ Hamburg in 2002. The original goal of the club was to obtain a wild card for the first tier Basketball Bundesliga. However, the team was given a spot in the second tier ProA.
The club debuted in the 2014–15 ProA season. It played its first home game on 28 September 2014, and won 66–65 over Gießen 46ers. In its debut season, the team ended eight in the standings. In the 2015–16 season, the Towers had the highest average attendance of all ProA clubs with 3,047 per game.
In the 2018–19 season, Hamburg finished the regular season in the fourth place. On 30 April 2019, Hamburg Towers promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga for the first time after defeating first-seeded Chemnitz Niners in the playoffs semifinals, and thus reaching the ProA Finals. On 4 May 2019, the team won the ProA championship after defeating Nürnberg Falcons in the second leg.
De Hamburg Towers maakten hun debuut in de Basketball Bundesliga in 2019 en eindigden hun eerste seizoen op de 12e plaats. In het seizoen 2020-21 bereikten ze de play-offs, waar ze in de kwartfinales werden uitgeschakeld door Alba Berlin.
In het seizoen 2021-22 behaalden de Hamburg Towers hun grootste succes tot nu toe door de finale van de BBL Cup te bereiken, waarin ze verloren van Alba Berlin. Daarnaast bereikten ze opnieuw de play-offs, waar ze in de halve finales werden uitgeschakeld door FC Bayern München.
Enkele bekende spelers die voor de Hamburg Towers hebben gespeeld, zijn Kendale McCullum, Yoeli Childs en Bryce Taylor. De huidige hoofdcoach is Pedro Calles.