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Basketball Bundesliga

In German basketball, the Basketball
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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet high hoop under organized rules....
Bundesliga (BBL) is the highest level club competition where play determines the national champion.

A national basketball league was first organized for play in 1939. The first title was won by LSV Spandau. With the beginning of Second World War

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World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, league play came to an end. Not until 1947 was the second basketball championship decided.

The Basketball Bundesliga was created as a pro player league in 1966. Between 2001 and 2003 the league had a sponsored name; it was called "s.Oliver BBL".

Today, eighteen teams compete in the highest level of play. The team holding the record for title championships is Bayer Giants Leverkusen

Bayer Giants Leverkusen

Bayer Giants Leverkusen was a basketball club, part of the Bayer Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. The Giants played in the Basketball Bundesliga, and their home arena was Wilhelm Dopatka Halle....
, who have won 14 championships. Since 1997, however, ALBA Berlin

ALBA Berlin

ALBA Berlin is a prominent Germany professional basketball club that is based in Berlin, Germany. The club is also known as the Berlin Albatrosse....
has dominated the league, winning their 8th title in 2008 as a result. Twenty-one teams have won the championship since its inception.

Teams

Team	City/Area
Brose Baskets	Bamberg Bamberg Bamberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from getting near to Bamberg....
ALBA Berlin ALBA Berlin ALBA Berlin is a prominent Germany professional basketball club that is based in Berlin, Germany. The club is also known as the Berlin Albatrosse....	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
Telekom Baskets Bonn Telekom Baskets Bonn Telekom Baskets Bonn is a basketball club based in Bonn, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga which means the highest level of the German championship and are one of the best teams in it....	Bonn Bonn Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig is a basketball club based in Braunschweig, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Volkswagen Halle....	Braunschweig Braunschweig Braunschweig , known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245,810 people , located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
Eisbären Bremerhaven Eisbären Bremerhaven The Eisb?ren Bremerhaven is a Basketball-team based in Bremerhaven.The team was born of the older team BSG Bremerhaven and is playing its fourth season in the Basketball Bundesliga ....	Bremerhaven Bremerhaven Bremerhaven is the port city of the free city and States of Germany of Bremen , Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Weser River on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham....
Deutsche Bank Skyliners Deutsche Bank Skyliners Deutsche Bank Skyliners is a basketball club based in Frankfurt, Germany that plays since 1999 in the Basketball Bundesliga. They have won the national club competition 2000 and the national championship 2004....	Frankfurt Frankfurt is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
Giessen 46ers Giessen 46ers Giessen 46ers is a basketball club based in Gie?en, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga and the only team that has never been relegated since the league was established in 1966....	Gießen Gießen Gie?en is a town in the States of Germany of Hessen, capital of both the Gie?en and the Gie?en . The population is approximately 71,000, with roughly 22,000 university students....
BG 74 Göttingen	Göttingen Göttingen G?ttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the Capital of the district of G?ttingen . The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686....
Giants Nördlingen	Nördlingen Nördlingen N?rdlingen is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Bavaria, Germany, with a population of 20,000. It is located in the middle of a giant Impact crater, called the N?rdlinger Ries....
Köln 99ers	Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
Bayer Giants Leverkusen Bayer Giants Leverkusen Bayer Giants Leverkusen was a basketball club, part of the Bayer Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. The Giants played in the Basketball Bundesliga, and their home arena was Wilhelm Dopatka Halle....	Leverkusen Leverkusen Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the eastern bank of the Rhine, half way between Cologne and D?sseldorf....
EnBW Ludwigsburg EnBW Ludwigsburg EnBW Ludwigsburg is a basketball club based in Ludwigsburg, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Rundsporthalle Ludwigsburg....	Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg is a city in Germany, about 12 km north of Stuttgart's city center, near the river Neckar. It is the capital of the Ludwigsburg , and belongs to the Stuttgart Region in the Stuttgart ....
EWE Baskets Oldenburg EWE Baskets Oldenburg EWE Baskets Oldenburg is a basketball club based in Oldenburg, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. The name is derived from the main sponsor EWE AG, which is a electric utility....	Oldenburg Oldenburg \|\|-\|\|-\|\|-\|\|}Oldenburg is an Independent City in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the western part of the state between the cities of Bremen and Groningen , at the Hunte river....
Paderborn Baskets	Paderborn Paderborn Paderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn . The name of the city derives from the river Pader River, which originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral, where St....
Artland Dragons Artland Dragons Artland Dragons is a basketball club based in Quakenbr?ck, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Artland Arena, 3000 spectators....	Quakenbrück Quakenbrück Quakenbr?ck is a town in the Osnabr?ck , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Hase. It is part of the Samtgemeinde of Artland....
TBB Trier TBB Trier TBB Trier is a basketball club based in Trier, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Trier Arena....	Trier Trier Trier is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC. Trier is not the only city claiming to be Germany's oldest, but it is the only one that bases this assertion on having the longest history as a city, as opposed to a mere settlement or army camp....
WALTER TIGERS Tübingen	Tübingen Tübingen T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
Ratiopharm Ulm Ratiopharm Ulm Ratiopharm Ulm is a basketball club located in Ulm, Germany. The club has two teams, one professional team, which plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, the major German professional league and one youth team, which plays in the so-called NBBL ....	Ulm Ulm Ulm is a city in the Germany States of Germany of Baden-W?rttemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau ....

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