Baloncesto Málaga

Unicaja
Leagues	Liga ACB Euroleague
Founded	1992
History	Unicaja Mayoral (1992–1993) Unicaja Polti (1993–1994) Unicaja (1994–present)
Arena	Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena
Capacity	11,000
Location	Málaga, Andalusia
Team colors	Forest Green, White, Purple and Lime
President	Eduardo García López
Head coach	Joan Plaza
Ownership	Unicaja
Championships	1 Spanish Championship 1 Spanish Cup 1 Korać Cup
Retired numbers	(5) Berni Rodríguez
Website	unicajabaloncesto.com
Uniforms
Home Away

Baloncesto Málaga, S.A.D.,^[1] more commonly referred as Unicaja, is a Spanish professional basketball team based in Málaga, Andalusia. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the Euroleague.

History

Unicaja was founded in 1992 as a merger of the two ACB teams in the city:

• CB Caja de Ronda
• CB Maristas

The club won its first title, the Korać Cup in 2001. They then won the Spanish King's Cup championship in 2005. The next year in 2006, Unicaja won its first-ever Spanish Championship. It finished its best years in 2007 qualifying for the Euroleague Final Four, where it was defeated in the semifinals by Panathinaikos.

In October 2007, Unicaja faced the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies in a friendly match, defeating them 102–99. This is one of the few times an NBA team has lost to an overseas club. Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro, two of the greatest Spanish basketball players of all time, played for Memphis in that historical game.^[2]

The club has over the years featured players like Nacho Rodríguez, Berni Rodríguez, Carlos Cabezas, Jorge Garbajosa, Marcus Brown, Sergei Babkov, Michael Ansley, Louis Bullock, Kenny Miller, and others. In 2007, Unicaja finished in third place in the Euroleague competition, marking the club's best ever Euroleague season to that point.

Home arenas

• Pabellón Guadaljaire (1977–78)
• Pabellón Tiro Pichón (1978–81)
• Pabellón Ciudad Jardín (1981–99)
• Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena (1999–present)

Players

Current roster

Unicaja roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PF 45 Cooley, Jack 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 112 kg (247 lb) 25 – 4 April 1991 PG 4 Díaz, Alberto 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 22 – 23 April 1994 SF 11 Díez, Dani 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 23 – 7 April 1993 SG 1 Jackson, Edwin 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 26 – 18 September 1989 F 19 Kuzminskas, Mindaugas 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 26 – 19 October 1989 PG 9 Marković, Stefan  1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 28 – 25 April 1988 G 16 Nedović, Nemanja 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 24 – 16 June 1991 PG 20 Nelson, DeMarcus 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 30 – 2 November 1985 SG 15 Smith, Jamar  1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 29 – 7 April 1987 PF 12 Suárez, Carlos 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 106 kg (234 lb) 29 – 23 May 1986 PF 10 Thomas, Will 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 29 – 1 July 1986 C 17 Vázquez, Fran (C) 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) 109 kg (240 lb) 33 – 1 May 1983	Head coach Joan Plaza Assistant coach(es) Antonio Herrera Ángel Sánchez-Cañete Carlos Jiménez Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: December 23, 2015

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Fran Vázquez	Jack Cooley
PF	Will Thomas	Carlos Suárez
SF	Mindaugas Kuzminskas	Dani Díez
SG	Edwin Jackson	Nemanja Nedović		Jamar Smith
PG	DeMarcus Nelson	Alberto Díaz		Stefan Marković

Head coaches

Alfonso Queipo de Llano 1977–79, 1985–86 José María Martín Urbano 1979–80, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990–92 Damián Caneda 1980–81 Ramón Guardiola 1981–82 Moncho Monsalve 1982–84 Ignacio Pinedo 1984–85 Arturo Ortega 1986–87 Zoran Slavnić 1987–88 Mario Pesquera 1988–90 Javier Imbroda 1992–98

Pedro Ramírez 1998–99 Božidar Maljković 1999–03 Paco Alonso 2003 Chechu Mulero 2003 Sergio Scariolo 2003–08 Aito Garcia Reneses 2008–2011 Chus Mateo 2011–12 Luis Casimiro 2012 Jasmin Repeša 2012–13 Joan Plaza 2013–present

Season by season

CB Caja de Ronda

Unicaja–Real Madrid in 2011.

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason	RS	PO	Copa del Rey	Other cups		European competitions
1978–79	2	1ª División B	10	–	6–16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1979–80	2	1ª División B	9	–	13–17	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1980–81	2	1ª División B	1	Promoted	19–2–5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1981–82	1	1ª División	10	–	10–1–15	–	Round of 16	–	–	–	–	–
1982–83	1	1ª División	12	–	6–20	–	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1983–84	1	Liga ACB	10	Round of 16	14–14	0–2	–	–	–	–	–	–
1984–85	1	Liga ACB	14	Relegated	11–17	2–2	–	–	–	–	–	–
1985–86	2	1ª División B	4	Finalist	16–12	2–3	–	–	–	–	–	–
1986–87	2	1ª División B	1	Promoted	14–8	10–2	–	–	–	–	–	–
1987–88	1	Liga ACB	14	–	1–27	2–3	–	Copa Príncipe	R16	–	–	–
1988–89	1	Liga ACB	5	Quarterfinalist	23–13	0–2	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1989–90	1	Liga ACB	5	Quarterfinalist	21–15	0–2	Round of 16	–	–	3 Korać Cup	R1	1–1
1990–91	1	Liga ACB	10	Round of 16	15–19	4–2	Third round	–	–	3 Korać Cup	R1	0–2
1991–92	1	Liga ACB	14	Round of 16	13–21	3–2	Second round	–	–	–	–	–

CB Maristas

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason	RS	PO	Copa del Rey
1981–82	3	2ª División	1	Promotion playoffs			–
1982–83	3	2ª División	2	Promotion playoffs			–
1983–84	3	2ª División	2	Promoted		3–2	–
1984–85	2	1ª División B	15	Relegated	6–20	–	–
1985–86	3	2ª División	2	Promoted			–
1986–87	2	1ª División B	18	–	12–22	–	–
1987–88	2	1ª División B	4	Promoted	26–10	7–3	–
1988–89	1	Liga ACB	15	–	22–14	0–3	First round
1989–90	1	Liga ACB	13	–	17–19	1–3	Round of 16
1990–91	1	Liga ACB	14	Round of 16	16–18	2–4	Second round
1991–92	1	Liga ACB	15	Round of 16	12–22	3–0	First round

Unicaja

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason	RS	PO	Copa del Rey	Other cups		European competitions
1992–93	1	Liga ACB	6	Round of 16	19–12	0–2	First round	–	–	–	–	–
1993–94	1	Liga ACB	12	Round of 16	12–16	1–2	Quarterfinalist	–	–	–	–	–
1994–95	1	Liga ACB	2	Runner-up	25–13	7–3	First round	–	–	–	–	–
1995–96	1	Liga ACB	6	Quarterfinalist	26–12	1–2	Quarterfinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	GS	8–8
1996–97	1	Liga ACB	7	Quarterfinalist	19–15	3–2	–	–	–	3 Korać Cup	QF	9–3
1997–98	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	20–14	0–3	–	–	–	3 Korać Cup	R16	7–3
1998–99	1	Liga ACB	9	–	18–16	–	Quarterfinalist	–	–	3 Korać Cup	GS	2–4
1999–00	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	19–15	3–2	Quarterfinalist	–	–	3 Korać Cup	RU	11–5
2000–01	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	27–7	3–4	Quarterfinalist	–	–	3 Korać Cup	C	14–2
2001–02	1	Liga ACB	2	Runner-up	27–7	6–3	Semifinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	RS	6–8
2002–03	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	24–10	5–5	Semifinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	8–12
2003–04	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	20–14	3–5	–	–	–	1 Euroleague	RS	4–10
2004–05	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	23–11	4–5	Champion	Supercopa	3rd	1 Euroleague	RS	6–8
2005–06	1	Liga ACB	1	Champion	26–8	9–2	Semifinalist	Supercopa	4th	1 Euroleague	T16	15–5
2006–07	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	17–17	0–3	Quarterfinalist	Supercopa	RU	1 Euroleague	3rd	14–11
2007–08	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	17–17	2–2	Quarterfinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	13–7
2008–09	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	24–8	3–3	Runner-up	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	10–6
2009–10	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	19–15	2–3	–	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	9–7
2010–11	1	Liga ACB	8	Quarterfinalist	19–15	0–2	–	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	6–10
2011–12	1	Liga ACB	9	–	17–17	–	Quarterfinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	4–12
2012–13	1	Liga ACB	9	–	18–16	–	–	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	15–9
2013–14	1	Liga ACB	4	Semifinalist	23–11	3–4	Quarterfinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	11–13
2014–15	1	Liga ACB	3	Semifinalist	25–9	4–4	Semifinalist	–	–	1 Euroleague	T16	8–16
2015–16	1	Liga ACB					–	Supercopa	RU	1 Euroleague	T16

Honours and awards

Honours

National:

• Liga ACB: (1)
  • 2005–06
• Copa del Rey: (1)
  • 2005
• 2nd division championships: (2)
  • 1ª División B: 1981, 1987
• Andalusia Cup: (9)
  • 1996, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

International:

• Korać Cup: (1)
  • 2001
• Euroleague:
  • Third Place: 2007

Individual awards

ACB Finals MVP

• Michael Ansley – 1995
• Jorge Garbajosa – 2006

Spanish Cup MVP

• Jorge Garbajosa – 2005

ACB Slam Dunk Champion

• Florent Piétrus – 2006
• James Gist – 2012

ACB Three Point Shootout Champion

• Paco Vázquez – 2001

All-ACB Team

• Jorge Garbajosa – 2005, 2006
• Jayson Granger – 2015

All-Euroleague Second Team

• Jorge Garbajosa – 2006

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

• Played at least one season for the club.
• 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.
• To perform very successfully during period in the club or at later/previous stages of his career.

Reserve team

Baloncesto Málaga B is the reserve team of Unicaja, basketball based in Málaga.

As from 2007, Baloncesto Málaga has an agreement with CB Axarquía to play as farm team, Baloncesto Málaga B, which plays also as Unicaja is the third team of Unicaja.

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason	Cup Competitions	RS	PO	Cup	Tot
1993–94	2	1ª División	27	–	–	10–20	2–4	–	12–24
1993–94	2	1ª División	28	–	–	12–18	–	–	12–18
1994–95	2	Liga EBA	7	–	–	14–12	–	–	14–12
1995–96	2	Liga EBA	10	Relegation playoffs	–			–	–
1996–97	3	Liga EBA	1	Round of 16	Copa EBA semifinalist			0–1	–
1997–98	3	Liga EBA	2	Semifinalist	–	21–5		–	–
1998–99	3	Liga EBA	1	Quarterfinalist	Copa EBA semifinalist	22–8	0–1	0–1	22–10
1999–00	3	Liga EBA	5	–	–	17–9	–	–	17–9
2000–01	4	Liga EBA	5	–	–	20–10	–	–	20–10
2001–02	4	Liga EBA	3	–	–	22–12	–	–	22–12
2002–03	4	Liga EBA	2	Round of 16	–	22–8	0–2	–	22–10
2003–04	4	Liga EBA	8	–	–	15–15	–	–	15–15
2004–05	4	Liga EBA	12	–	–	13–17	–	–	13–17
2005–06	4	Liga EBA	14	Relegated	–	10–20	–	–	10–20
2006–07	5	1ª División	3	Promoted	–	18–4	4–2	–	22–6
2007–08	5	Liga EBA	7	–	–	14–14	–	–	14–14
2008–09	5	Liga EBA	7	–	–	13–11	–	–	13–11
2009–10	4	Liga EBA	12	–	–	12–18	–	–	12–18
2010–11	4	Liga EBA	9	–	–	8–14	–	–	8–14
2011–12	5	1ª División	2	Semifinalist^A	–	17–5	1–1	–	18–6
2012–13	5	1ª División	1	Promoted^Champion	–	12–2	5–0	–	17–2
2013–14	4	Liga EBA	5	–	–	13–11	–	–	13–11
2014–15	4	Liga EBA	9	–	–	10–16	–	–	10–16

• ^A The club did not play the promotion semifinals.

References

1. Unicaja info
2. Unicaja defeats Memphis Grizzlies in NBA Euroleague Live 2007 Interbasket. 9 October 2007

External links

• Official Website (Spanish)
• Baloncesto Málaga at ACB.com (Spanish)
• Baloncesto Málaga at Euroleague.net