Okapi Aalstar

Okapi Aalstar is a Belgian basketball club from Aalst.

History

The club was founded in 1949 as Okapi Aalst. From 1994, we started to develop a professional structure and worked with several names sponsors. 2002, however, were the financial reserves of the professional men's team exhausted and the professional game operation was continued as Okapi Aalstar. Now that the telecommunications provider Belgacom (1997-1999) and Alken-Maes brewery served as title sponsor, since 2006, the Belgian branch of Assicurazioni Generali title sponsor.

Okapi plays in the Belgian Basketball League, the Ethias League. There, you play a mean role. The greatest success of the club's history was celebrated after a runner-up in 2011 the following year, 2012, when you could win the Belgian Basketball Cup with the former top scorer of the German Basketball Bundesliga Chris Copeland, who subsequently moved to the New York Knicks in the NBA.

The club also participated several times in the Euro Challenge, where you made ​​it to the last 16 teams 2010/11.

Achievements

  • Belgian Cup winner (2012 )
  • Champion Belgian 2nd league (2006)

Known player

  • United States \ Belgium Daren Queenan 1992-1999
  • Belgium Tomas Van Den Spiegel 1995-1997
  • Belgium Christophe Beghin 1998/99
  • United States Daren Engellant 1998-2000
  • Belgium Ronny Bayer 2002/ 03
  • United States DeAndre Haynes 2007/ 08
  • United States Matt Lojeski 2007-2009
  • United States Brian Greene 2009/10
  • United States Bingo Merriex 2009/10
  • United States Stanley Burrell 2010/11
  • United States Anthony Hilliard 2010/11
  • United States Chris Copeland 2010-2012
  • United States Nate Fox 2011/12
  • United States Stefon Jackson 2011/12
Aalst, Belgium Basketball-Bundesliga National Basketball Association EuroChallenge Stanley Burrell (basketball) FIBA Europe
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