CB Gran Canaria – Wikipedia

Spanish basketball team

Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria – Claret, S.A.D., is a professional basketball club based in Las Palmas, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Gran Canaria Arena. From 2012 until 2021, they have been sponsored by Herbalife.

History[edit]

CB Gran Canaria was founded inside Claret School and for many years played under that denomination. Following a successful period in school competitions, a senior team was created and integrated on the Spanish Second Division. The team played in that division until 1984, when the team adopted the decision of having a statute of its own, therefore becoming an independent institution. The new statute was approved on May 22, 1985 and the team became Claret Club de Baloncesto.

The following years, the team moved many times between Liga ACB and 1st Division B. On the 1987–88 season the club changed its name to CB Gran Canaria, paying homage to the place where its social mass came from. On 30 June 1992 the team became a sports public limited company (Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, SAD in Spanish) in order to fulfil with the requirements of the then-new Spanish sports legislation.

After three seasons in the Spanish silver division the team won the first Liga EBA in the 1994–95 season and was promoted to Liga ACB. From that season on, CB Gran Canaria has stayed in the top level of the Spanish basketball. The 2012–13 represents the team’s eighteenth consecutive season in Liga ACB.

In April 2015, Gran Canaria played the Eurocup Finals. The team was defeated by BC Khimki in the two legs. Ten months later, the club qualified for the first time to a final of a national trophy. In the 2016 Copa del Rey defeated Valencia Basket in the quarterfinals and Dominion Bilbao Basket in the semifinals, but could not beat Real Madrid in the final, where it lost by 81–85.

On 24 September 2016, Gran Canaria won its first national title after beating FC Barcelona 79–59 in the Final of the 2016 Supercopa played in Vitoria-Gasteiz.^[1]

One season later, in June 2018, Gran Canaria qualified for the second time to the league semifinals and also achieved qualification to the EuroLeague for the first time ever.^[2]

Through the years CB Gran Canaria has had several denominations due to its sponsorship:

Canarias Telecom: 1999–2002 Auna Gran Canaria: 2002–04 Gran Canaria Grupo Dunas: 2006–07 Kalise Gran Canaria: 2007–09 Gran Canaria 2014: 2009–12 Herbalife Gran Canaria: 2012–2021

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  Kalise Gran Canaria logo
  (2007–2009)

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  CB Gran Canaria non-commercial logo
  (until 2014)

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  CB Gran Canaria logo
  (2014–present)

Home arenas[edit]

Players[edit]

Retired numbers[edit]

Herbalife Gran Canaria retired numbers
No.		Player	Position	Tenure
20		Jim Moran	SF	2001–2011
11		Greg Stewart	C	1996-1992

Current roster[edit]

Herbalife Gran Canaria roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PF 00 Inglis, Damien 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 109 kg (240 lb) 27 – (1995-05-20)20 May 1995 C 2 Balcerowski, Aleksander 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) 123 kg (271 lb) 22 – (2000-11-19)19 November 2000 G/F 3 Kljajic, Jovan 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 102 kg (225 lb) 21 – (2001-09-11)11 September 2001 SG 4 Slaughter, A. J. 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 35 – (1987-08-03)3 August 1987 PG 5 Bassas, Ferrán 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 30 – (1992-04-29)29 April 1992 PG 6 Albicy, Andrew 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 33 – (1990-03-21)21 March 1990 SG 8 Benite, Vítor 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 33 – (1990-02-20)20 February 1990 SF 9 Brussino, Nicolás 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 30 – (1993-03-02)2 March 1993 F 10 Salvó, Miquel 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 28 – (1994-11-03)3 November 1994 PF 14 Shurna, John 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 32 – (1990-04-30)30 April 1990 F/C 16 López, Rubén 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 21 – (2002-03-13)13 March 2002 C 18 Diop, Khalifa 2.15 m (7 ft 1 in) 109 kg (240 lb) 21 – (2002-02-15)15 February 2002 SG 23 Mutaf, David 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 20 – (2002-06-14)14 June 2002 PF 24 Carrera, Michael 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 30 – (1993-01-07)7 January 1993 PF 41 Stević, Oliver 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 39 – (1984-01-18)18 January 1984	Head coach Assistant coach(es) Legend (C) Team captain Injured Updated: March 17, 2023

Depth chart[edit]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Khalifa Diop	Aleksander Balcerowski	Olivier Stević
PF	John Shurna	Damien Inglis	Rubén López de la Torre
SF	Nicolás Brussino	Miquel Salvó	Jovan Kljajić
SG	A.J. Slaughter	Vítor Benite	David Mutaf
PG	Ferrán Bassas	Andrew Albicy	Dan Duščak

Head coaches[edit]

Season by season[edit]

Trophies and awards[edit]

Trophies[edit]

• Supercopa de España: (1)
• EuroCup Basketball:
• Copa del Rey:
• 2nd division championships: (2)
  • 1ª División B: (1) 1991
  • Liga EBA: (1) 1995
• Copa Toyota: (7)
  • 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013
• Trofeo Gobierno de Canarias: (4)
  • 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
  • Runners-up (4): 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011
• Rome, Italy Invitational Game: (1)

Individual awards[edit]

All-ACB Team

Supercup MVP

All-EuroCup First Team

All-EuroCup Second Team

Notable players[edit]

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club. Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time. Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

References[edit]

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