Borås Basket

Borås Basket
Leagues	Swedish Basketball League
Founded	September 1952; 72 years ago (1952-09)
Arena	Boråshallen
Capacity	3,000[1]
Team colors	Black, Orange
Head coach	Henrik Svensson
Championships	1 Swedish Championship
Website	www.borasbasket.se
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Borås Basket is a professional basketball club based in the Swedish town of Borås. The club was founded in 1952 and currently compete in the Swedish Basketball League (SBL), the country's premier league.

Borås has played in European competitions multiple times in its history; in 1995, 1996 and 2000 it played in the FIBA Korac Cup. In 2014 Borås returned to Europe when it entered the EuroChallenge.

History

In the 1999–2000 season, Borås was personally sponsored by National Basketball Association (NBA) player Magic Johnson and was named "Magic M7 Borås".^[2] Johnson himself played 5 games for the club between October and January that season. Johnson joined the roster and was undefeated in five games with the team.^[3][4] Johnson also became a co-owner of the club;^[5] however, the project failed after one season and the club was forced into reconstruction.^[5]

Since 2007, Borås is again active in the Basketligan, the highest tier of Swedish basketball.

In the 2019–20 season, Borås won its first Swedish championship under special circumstances. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was ended prematurely and the team won the championship based on its first place in the regular season.^[6]

Honours

Swedish Basketball League

• Champions (1): 2019–20^[a]

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	European competitions
2010–11	1	Basketligan	7th
2011–12	1	Basketligan	4th
2012–13	1	Basketligan	5th
2013–14	1	Basketligan	3rd
2014–15	1	Basketligan	3rd	3 EuroChallenge	RS	3–3
2015–16	1	Basketligan	4th	3 FIBA Europe Cup	R32	5–8
2016–17	1	Basketligan	5th
2017–18	1	Basketligan	4th	4 FIBA Europe Cup	QR1	0–2
2018–19	1	Basketligan	2nd
2019–20	1	SBL	1st	4 FIBA Europe Cup	QR1	0–2

Players

See also: Category: Borås Basket players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Borås Basket roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name PG 1 Johansson, Ludvig PG 2 Thuresson, Daniel PG 4 Hilliard IV, Nimrod PG 5 Person, Andreas G/F 6 Brändmark, John G/F 8 Andersson, Fredrik G 10 Sigurdarson, Jakob F 11 Gunnarsson, Simon C 15 Palm, Michael C 21 Smith, Jyles PF 31 Bisping, Brett F 42 Mornar, Marin	Head coach Henrik Svensson Assistant coach(es) Henrik Carlsson Johan Peroti Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 8 July 2021

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

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.

• Magic Johnson
• Elvar Már Friðriksson
• Greg Graham
• Jakob Sigurðarson
• Michael Kingma
• Ryan Zamroz
• Samuel Haanpää
• Roope Ahonen

Notes

1. The 2019–20 Swedish Basketball League was cancelled prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, Borås was named champion based on the standings after just 33 games in the regular season.

References

1. "Borås Basket". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
2. "Historias nórdicas: Magic Johnson, el vikingo". Solobasket.com.
3. "Basketball: Johnson plays in Sweden" The Independent, November 12, 1999. www.independent.co.uk. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
4. Associated Press. "Magic Johnson Returns to Scandinavia." www.apnewsarchive, November 5, 2000. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
5. Sanchis, J.R. "Historias nórdicas: Magic Johnson, el vikingo" www.solobasket.com, November 10, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
6. "Swedish Federation cancels 2019/20 season, Boras named Champions". Eurobasket.com. 13 March 2020.

External links

• (in Swedish) Official website