| Barons Rīga | ||||
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| Leagues | LBL Baltic League ULEB Eurocup |
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| Founded | 2000 | |||
| Arena | Daugavas Sporta Nams | |||
| Location | Riga, Latvia | |||
| Team colors | White, blue and black |
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| President | Ivo Zonne | |||
| Head coach | Edgars Teteris | |||
| Championships | Latvian Championships: 2 (2008, 2010) FIBA EuroCup: 1 (2008) |
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| Website | barons.lv | |||
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BK Barons/O!Karte (previously Barons/LMT) is a professional basketball club, which is based in Riga, Latvia. Its head coach is Kārlis Muižnieks.
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Barons/O!Karte Rīga is an integral part from Latvia's newest age basketball history, because it (with a name Princips) was one of the founders of the Latvian Basketball League (LBL) in 1992. In the first season Princips carried off bronze in LBL. After two seasons Princips turned into LainERS, making their way into Latvia's basketball history with its first American legionary Mikki Jackson, with a cheerleader show and first ever game programmes in the Latvian league.
Year 1994 LainERS carried off LBL bronze, and in next two seasons got the 4th place. Place in the semi-finals was achieved also in year 1998, but then for couple of years no greater success was achieved.
The club's revival started in the fall 2001, when LainERS became Barons. The road up was made little by little, but permanent. On the year 2004 Barons took LBL bronze, but on the next two years the historical 2nd place was achieved. Barons made history again with first players cards. In January 2007 came out already third issue of the fan beloved cards. In the last season on the LBL Barons/O!Karte in semi-finals in series of five games lost to the next Latvian champions ASK Rīga, but in the fight for the bronze won Liepājas Lauvas.
Barons/O!Karte has participated in all three of the Baltic Basketball League championships. So far the highest achievement was on the year 2006, when Barons/O!Karte participated in the Final Six in Tallinn.
2008 season Barons/O!Karte got to Baltic Basketball League eighth-final, where in the best out of two games lost to Kalev/Cramo. But still last season can be considered as a historical, because on 15 October 2006, the audience for the Barons/O!Karte game with Kauņas Žalgiris was a record high – 11,500 spectators.
Current roster as of, 2009.[1]
| # | Player | Pos. | Height | Weight | Place of Birth | |
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| 1 | Raimonds Feldmanis | G | 192 cm | 85 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 4 | Uvis Helmanis | F | 204 cm | 118 kg | Talsi, Latvia | |
| 8 | Kaspars Raiskums | F | 202 cm | 102 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 9 | Ivars Timmermanis | F | 203 cm | 95 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 11 | Mārtiņš Rozenbergs | g | 196 cm | 102 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 13 | Edijs Šlesers | G | 187 cm | 81 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 21 | Krists Pīternieks | G | 202 cm | 84 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 24 | Mārtiņš Jaunzems | F | 202 cm | 88 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 33 | Klāvs Bedrītis | G | 190 cm | 90 kg | Riga, Latvia | |
| 44 | Haralds Kārlis | G | 195 cm | 82 kg | Riga, Latvia |
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