Club Baloncesto Lucentum Alicante is a professional basketball team based in Alicante, Valencian Community. Lucentum Alicante played in Liga ACB for the last time in 2012, after selling its place in the league to CB Canarias.
In August 2015, due to its financial problems, it gave its place in LEB Plata to the Fundación Lucentum Baloncesto, created two months before to save the basketball of the city.
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Sponsorship naming
Lucentum Alicante has had several sponsorship names during its history:
Ernesto Electrodomésticos 1994–1996
Proaguas Costablanca 2000–2001
Etosa Alicante 2002–2007
Alicante Costablanca 2007–2008
Meridiano Alicante 2009–2011
Trophies and awards
Trophies
LEB Oro: (2)
2000, 2002
Copa Príncipe: (2)
2002, 2009
Lliga Valenciana: (3)
2004, 2006, 2011
Individual awards
All-ACB Team
Lou Roe – 2004
Notable former players
Numerous NBA players played at CB Lucentum before or after their NBA career. In 2020, local newspaper Diario Información listed some of the best ever CB Lucentum players.
Lucio Angulo
José Manuel Calderón
Iñaki de Miguel
Oriol Junyent
Pedro Llompart
Nacho Rodríguez
Txemi Urtasun
Carlos Cazorla
Guillermo Rejón
Pepe Sánchez
Pablo Prigioni
Andy Rautins
Rowan Barrett
Bruno Šundov
Velimir Perasović
Mario Stojić
Thomas Heurtel
Alain Digbeu
Martin Keane
Justin Doellman
Mindaugas Katelynas
Martynas Andriuškevičius
Vule Avdalović
Lou Roe
Larry Lewis
Kyle Singler