| Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus 울산 현대모비스 피버스 | |||
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| League | Korean Basketball League | ||
| Established | 1986; 39 years ago (1986) | ||
| History | Kia Motors Basketball Team 1986–1996 Busan Kia Enterprise 1997–2001 Ulsan Mobis Automons 2001–2004 Ulsan Mobis Phoebus 2004–2017 Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus 2017–present | ||
| Arena | Dongchun Gymnasium (Capacity: 5,831) | ||
| Location | Ulsan, South Korea | ||
| Team colours | Red, dark blue, white | ||
| General manager | Yoo Jae-hak | ||
| Team manager | Lee Seung-min | ||
| Head coach | Cho Dong-hyun | ||
| Team captain | Ham Ji-hoon | ||
| Ownership | Jo Seong-hwan | ||
| Affiliation(s) | Hyundai Mobis | ||
| Championships | 7Korean Leagues | ||
| Retired numbers | 6Yang Dong-geun 10Woo Ji-won 14Kim Yoo-taek | ||
| Website | phoebus.kbl.or.kr | ||
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TheUlsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus is a professionalbasketball club in theKorean Basketball League.
Before the professionalKorean Basketball League was established in 1997, domestic basketball was an amateur sport and teams were sponsored by corporate companies or private universities. Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus traces its origins to the basketball team sponsored byKia Motors in 1986. The team was based inBusan where Kia Motors had manufacturing operations.[1]
During the amateur era, all teams competed in the National Basketball Festival (농구대잔치). The Kia team dominated the late 1980s, despite being relatively new compared to Samsung Electronic and Hyundai's teams (nowSeoul Samsung Thunders andJeonju KCC Egis, respectively). Their roster at that time consisted of the legendaryChung-Ang University quartet: centersHan Ki-bum andKim Yoo-taek, all-rounded shooting guardHur Jae and record-breaking point guardKang Dong-hee. The "Hur-Dong-Taek Trio" would later be retrospectively dubbed the most formidable offensive unit of the amateur era.[2]
With the founding of the KBL, Kia chose to register its team and joined the league as Busan Kia Enterprise. They won the inaugural KBL Championship. Although they finished the next two seasons as championship runners-up, the team went through a period of upheaval. As with many major corporations, Kia Motors suffered from the1997 Asian financial crisis, which had hit South Korea hard. Kia was bought over byHyundai Motor Company in 1998 but the basketball team remained solely under Kia and retained the name.[3] The team was unable to go through a generational change due to financial constraints and the aging squad found themselves behind other teams, especially a much youngerDaejeon Hyundai Dynat team driven by the likes ofLee Sang-min andChoo Seung-gyun. Han had already retired by then while Hur and Kang both left for other teams for various reasons.[2]
Hyundai then acquired the basketball team prior to the 2001–02 season as it was no longer feasible for Kia to sponsor a sports team.[4] The team moved to its current home city ofUlsan.
The first several seasons after the move were forgettable, as the newly-renamed Ulsan Mobis Automons mostly finished in the bottom half of the league table. Incumbent head coachYoo Jae-hak, himself a former Kia player during the amateur era, was hired in 2004.[5][6] At the rookie draft that year, Mobis won the lottery for the first overall pick and Yoo draftedYang Dong-geun, who would go on to become the team's longest-serving player.
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