Niigata Albirex BB

Niigata Albirex BB
Leagues	bj league
Founded	1954
Arena	Toki Messe
Location	Niigata Prefecture
Team colors	Orange and Blue
President	Akihito Hino
Head coach	Masaya Hirose
Championships	None
Website	albirex.com
Uniforms
Home Away

Active departments of Albirex
Football (Men's)	Football (Women's)	Football (Sng.)
Basketball	Cheerleading	Skiing
Athletics	Baseball	Racing

Niigata Albirex BB (新潟アルビレックスBB, Niigata Arubirekkusu BB^?), formally Niigata Albirex Basketball, is a Japanese basketball club. It is based in Niigata City and plays its games chiefly in the Niigata City gym and Toki Messe.

Outline

The club was founded in 1954 as the company team of Daiwa Securities, a Tokyo-based securities brokerage. In 1991, it joined the Japan Basketball League. In 2000, the company club was dissolved after NSG purchased it, and the club was moved before the 2000–2001 season to Niigata and renamed Albirex.

In 2004, it joined the bj league along with five other clubs.

Team name transition

• 1954: The Daiwa Securities basketball club
• 1994: The Daiwa Securities Hotblizzards
• 2000: Niigata Albirex
• 2006: Niigata Albirex basketball

Roster

Season 2009-2010

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)
0	Akitomo Takeno	PG	1.73
4	Makoto Hasegawa	PG	1.88
6	Takato Saito	PG	1.81
9	Naoto Kosuge (captain)	G	1.87
13	Shuhei Komatsu	G	1.84
24	Ryousuke Mizumachi	G	1.86
31	Calvin Chitwood	PF	1.98
32	Yuichi Ikeda (vice-captain)	F	1.91
43	Paul Butorac	C/F	2.08
44	Antonio Burks (vice-captain)	PF/SF	1.95
45	Tyrene Levett	SG/SF	1.95

Honors

• Japan Basketball League Div.2
  • Champions (2) : 2000/2001, 2001/2002
• bj league
  • Runners-up (1) : 2005/2006
• Asia Professional Basketball Invitation Tournament
  • 4th Place (1) : 2006

Season-by-season records

Year	League	Division	Regular Season			Semi Final		Final		Finish
			Win	Lose	Place	Win	Lose	Win	Lose
2000	JBL	2	12	2	2nd	1	0	1	0	Champions
2001/2002	JBL		14	0	1st	2	0	2	1	Champions
2002/2003	JBL Super League		2	9	6th	---				6th
2003/2004			9	19	8th	---				8th
2004/2005			8	20	7th	---				7th
Season	League		Regular Season					Finish		Average Crowd
			Win	Lose	Win%	GB	Place
2005/2006	bj league		29	11	.725	2.0	2nd	Runners-up		-
2006/2007			25	15	.625	4.0	2nd	4th		3,008
2007/2008			26	18	.591	3.0	East 3rd	6th		3,259
2008/2009			24	28	.462	12.0	East 4th			-

Key:

• Win%: Winning percentage
• GB: Games behind

External links

• Official web site (Japanese)

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