İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor (basketball)

İstanbul BŞB
Leagues Turkish Super League
Founded 2000 (2000)
History İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor
(2000–present)
Arena Cebeci Sport Hall
Arena Capacity 1,250
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Team colors Orange, Navy Blue
         
President Ahmet Hamdi Çamlı
Head coach Drasko Prodanovic
Website istanbulbbsk.org

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor, also known simply as İstanbul BŞB is a professional basketball club[1] based in İstanbul, Turkey that plays in the Turkish Basketball Super League. Their home arena is Cebeci Sport Hall. The club is a part of İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Sports Club.[2]

History

İstanbul BŞB basketball was founded in 2000, as a branch of İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü. The team began playing in the lower divisions of Turkish basketball league systems for 2000 season with amateur players. The team became professional in 2006 and the team played in EBBL for 2006 to 2009. In 2009, the team promoted to TB2L from EBBL. The team played TB2L till 2013–14 season. In 2013–14 season, the team finished to seven of Regular Season. In Playoffs, the team faced to Ankara DSİ S.K. in quarter-finals and beat them 2-1. Then, the team beat Aydem Pamukkale Üniversitesi in semi-finals and promoted to TBL (now called BSL). 2014–15 season was first season of İstanbul BŞB in TBL and finished to twelve.

Season by season

Season Tier League Pos. Turkish Cup European competitions
2008–09 3 TB3L
2009–10 2 TB2L 10th
2010–11 2 TB2L 9th
2011–12 2 TB2L 12th
2012–13 2 TB2L 11th
2013–14 2 TB2L 2nd
2014–15 1 TBL 9th
2015–16 1 BSL 13th
2016–17 1 BSL 10th
2017–18 1 BSL 4 FIBA Europe Cup

Players

Current roster

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age
PF Serbia Birčević, Stefan 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 27 – (1989-12-13)13 December 1989
PG United States Thompson, Michael 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 83 kg (183 lb) 28 – (1989-02-02)2 February 1989
C United States Buckner, Eric 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 27 – (1990-04-26)26 April 1990
F/C Croatia Buva, Ivan 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 113 kg (249 lb) 26 – (1991-05-06)6 May 1991
PF Turkey Karaman, İlkan 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 115 kg (254 lb) 27 – (1990-05-13)13 May 1990
PG Turkey Demirel, Hakan 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 31 – (1986-05-07)7 May 1986
F/C Turkey Olmaz, Ayberk 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 31 – (1986-01-08)8 January 1986
SF 19 Turkey Dokuyan, Uğur 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 24 – (1993-03-05)5 March 1993
SF 21 Turkey Cevik, Mert 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 21 – (1996-08-09)9 August 1996
G 24 Slovenia Klobučar, Jaka 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 30 – (1987-08-19)19 August 1987
Head coach
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Draško Prodanović
Assistant coach(es)
  • Turkey İlker Salman
  • Turkey Kadir Serdar
  • Turkey Bora Bölükbaşı
Strength & conditioning coach(es)
  • Turkey Soner Çakırlar
Team manager
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Nihat İziç
  • Turkey Aycan Şarlı

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (DC) Dual citizenship
  • Injured

Updated: October 5, 2015

Depth chart

Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Jarvis Varnado Deniz Kılıçlı
PF Ben McCauley Damir Markota Doğukan Tekfidan
SF Jaka Klobucar Metecan Birsen Uğur Dokuyan
SG Sean Armand Mert Çevik
PG Earl Calloway Kartal Özmızrak Erbil Eroğlu

Notable players

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References

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