| Karşıyaka Basket | |||
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| Leagues | Basketbol Süper Ligi | ||
| Founded | 1966; 59 years ago (1966) | ||
| History | Karşıyaka Basket (1966 – present) | ||
| Arena | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall | ||
| Capacity | 6,500 | ||
| Location | İzmir,Turkey | ||
| Team colors | Green, red | ||
| President | Aygün Cicibaş | ||
| Head coach | Candost Volkan | ||
| Team captain | Mert Celep | ||
| Championships | 2Turkish Championships 1Turkish Cup 2President's Cups | ||
| Website | www.kskbasketbol.net | ||
Karşıyaka Basket is a Turkish professionalbasketball team located inKarşıyaka,İzmir, that competes in theTurkish Basketball Super League. It is a section of the multi-sport clubKarşıyaka SK. The team also goes by the name of KSK, which stands for Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü (i.e. Karşıyaka Sport Club).
Karşıyaka SK was founded in 1912 and opened its basketball section in 1966. Karşıyaka Basket is considered to be one of the most important basketball teams in all of Turkey. They first played in theTurkish Basketball League in 1966. They relegated to lower divisions in 1968. The club also played in lower divisions from 1968 to 1974. The team is still participating in the Turkish Basketball League since 1974. Karşıyaka Basket was sponsored by Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group; Pınar between 1998 and 2024.[1] Their home arena is theKarşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.[2]
Karşıyaka set to nameUfuk Sarıca as head coach in the summer of 2012. Sarıca was dreamed to be inEuroleague with Karşıyaka and he said that "We have a dream and we want to be in Euroleague in 3 years." On February 9, 2014, the team won theTurkish Cup with a victory againstAnadolu Efes under managing Ufuk Sarıca.[3] It was the first championship of club in Turkish Cup. On October 8, 2014, the team won thePresident's Cup by beatingFenerbahçe Ülker. In the2014–15, Karşıyaka won its second Turkish League after 1987 championship, despite finishing the regular season in the fourth place, by defeating Fenerbahçe Ülker in the playoffs semifinals by 3–1 and Anadolu Efes 4–1 in the finals.
On 29 July 2015,EuroLeague announced the participating teams for the following season and included Karşıyaka with for the2015–16 EuroLeague season.[4] In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.
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| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 | ||
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| C | Samet Geyik | Egemen Güven | |||
| PF | Justin Alston | Mert Celep | |||
| SF | Charles Manning | Michał Sokołowski | Mihail Naumoski | ||
| SG | Cameron Young | Ege Özçelik | |||
| PG | Nemanja Gordić | Serkan Menteşe | Meriç Kuntker |
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