Koln Rhein Stars
Wikipedia - RheinStars Köln
RheinStars Köln is a professional basketball club based in Cologne, Germany. The team currently plays in the ProB, the third tier basketball league in Germany. The club has won one Basketball Bundesliga championship and three German Cup titles in its history.
History
The team was founded 1999, as Cologne 99ers. In the Euroleague 2006-07 season, their home arena was an arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, named Philips Halle.
RheinEnergie power company supported the team until the summer of 2007, thus the team changed to its original name, Köln 99ers. On January 21, 2008, the club announced that they were insolvent.
In 2013, the club was re-launched and started in the 2.Regionliga (5th division) with the new name of RheinStars Köln. Since 2015, the team plays in the ProA, Germany's second division of professional basketball. In 2018-19 season, the team was relegated to the Regionalliga from ProB (Germany's 3rd division of professional basketball) after finishing the season 5-17.
科隆籃球星隊在 2005-06 賽季首次打入 BBL 半決賽，並贏得德國盃冠軍。在 2006-07 賽季，球隊再次打入 BBL 半決賽，但在最後一場比賽中輸給了貝爾林阿爾巴球隊。科隆籃球星隊在 2016-17 賽季中，以 18 勝 16 負的成績排名聯賽第十名，並在季後賽第一輪中被拜仁慕尼黑淘汰。
科隆籃球星隊的著名球員包括：
- 約翰尼斯·福格特曼 (Johannes Voigtmann)
- 馬克西·克萊伯 (Maxi Kleber)
- 伊薩克·博甘 (Isaac Fotu)
- 阿金·施奈德 (Akin Akingbala)
- 羅伯特·阿內茲 (Robert Anđelković)