Alba Berlin is a professional basketball club based in Berlin, Germany. It traces its history to BG Charlottenburg, a club in western Berlin founded in 1989, which took the name Alba Berlin in 1991 when the recycling company ALBA Europe became its major sponsor, and the club gives 1991 as its founding year. It hosts home games at the Uber Arena and competes in the German Basketball Bundesliga and the Champions League. Under coach Svetislav Pešić it won the FIBA Korać Cup in 1995, the first international title for a German basketball club, and its first German championship in 1996. It is regarded as the most successful German basketball team, with eleven German Championships and eleven German Cups, and it is the largest German basketball club by membership. In 2014 it became the first German basketball team to beat a reigning NBA champion, the San Antonio Spurs.
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is a professional basketball club based in Berlin, Germany
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Alba returned to the EuroLeague and reached the Top 16
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In August 2013, he returned after 12 years to his former club Alba Berlin
Henning Harnisch (Wikipedia)
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Harnisch played professional basketball for the German Basketball Bundesliga teams Gießen 46ers, Bayer Giants Leverkusen, and Alba Berlin.
DaShaun Wood (Wikipedia)
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Wood joined him at his new club Alba Berlin.
Patrick Femerling (Wikipedia)
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He played for ALBA Berlin in Germany
Marko Pešić (Wikipedia)
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Pešić spent most of his professional basketball career with the Alba Berlin of the German League
Steffen Hamann (Wikipedia)
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In 2008 he joined Alba Berlin where he played until 2010.
Krešimir Lončar (Wikipedia)
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On October 1, 2015, he signed a one-year contract with the German team Alba Berlin.
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