CB Gran Canaria

Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria – Claret, S.A.D., currently known as Dreamland Gran Canaria due to sponsorship, is a professional basketball club based in Las Palmas, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home venue is the Gran Canaria Arena.

History
CB Gran Canaria was founded inside Claret School and for many years played under that denomination. Following a successful period in school competitions, a senior team was created and integrated on the Spanish Second Division. The team played in that division until 1984, when the team adopted the decision of having a statute of its own, therefore becoming an independent institution. The new statute was approved on May 22, 1985 and the team became Claret Club de Baloncesto.

The following years, the team moved many times between Liga ACB and 1st Division B. On the 1987–88 season the club changed its name to CB Gran Canaria, paying homage to the place where its social mass came from. On 30 June 1992 the team became a sports public limited company (Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, SAD in Spanish) in order to fulfil with the requirements of the then-new Spanish sports legislation.

After three seasons in the Spanish silver division the team won the first Liga EBA in the 1994–95 season and was promoted to Liga ACB. From that season on, CB Gran Canaria has stayed in the top level of the Spanish basketball. The 2012–13 represents the team's eighteenth consecutive season in Liga ACB.

In April 2015, Gran Canaria played the Eurocup Finals. The team was defeated by BC Khimki in the two legs. Ten months later, the club qualified for the first time to a final of a national trophy. In the 2016 Copa del Rey defeated Valencia Basket in the quarterfinals and Dominion Bilbao Basket in the semifinals, but could not beat Real Madrid in the final, where it lost by 81–85.

On 24 September 2016, Gran Canaria won its first national title after beating FC Barcelona 79–59 in the Final of the 2016 Supercopa played in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

One season later, in June 2018, Gran Canaria qualified for the second time to the league semifinals and also achieved qualification to the EuroLeague for the first time ever.

Sponsorship naming
Through the years CB Gran Canaria has had several denominations due to its sponsorship:

Home arenas

 * Centro Insular de Deportes: (until 2014)
 * Gran Canaria Arena: (2014–present)

Notable players

 * 🇺🇸 Demonte Harper
 * 🇺🇸 Royce O'Neale

Head coaches

 * Joaquín Costa: 1985–90
 * Manolo Hussein: 1990–92, 1995–2002
 * Trifón Poch: 1992–94
 * Roberto Orellana: 1994–95
 * Salva Maldonado: 2005–09, 2018
 * Pedro Martínez: 2002–05, 2009–2014, 2019
 * Aíto García Reneses: 2014–2016
 * Luis Casimiro: 2016–2018
 * Víctor García: 2018–2019
 * Fotios Katsikaris: 2019–2020
 * Porfirio Fisac: 2020–2022
 * Jaka Lakovič: 2022–present

Trophies

 * Supercopa de España: (1)
 * 2016
 * EuroCup Basketball: (1)
 * 2023
 * Copa del Rey:
 * Runners-up (1): 2016
 * 2nd division championships: (2)
 * 1ª División B: (1) 1991
 * Liga EBA: (1) 1995
 * Copa Toyota: (7)
 * 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013
 * Trofeo Gobierno de Canarias: (4)
 * 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
 * Runners-up (4): 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011
 * Rome, Italy Invitational Game: (1)
 * 2009

Individual awards
All-ACB Team
 * Jaycee Carroll – 2011

Supercup MVP
 * Kyle Kuric – 2016

EuroCup Finals MVP
 * John Shurna – 2023

All-EuroCup First Team
 * Walter Tavares – 2015
 * Alen Omić – 2016
 * John Shurna – 2023

All-EuroCup Second Team
 * James Augustine – 2010
 * Kyle Kuric – 2015
 * Kevin Pangos – 2016

Notable players

 * 🇪🇸 Berdi Pérez
 * 🇪🇸 Roberto Íñiguez
 * 🇪🇸 Xavi Rabaseda
 * 🇪🇸 Fran Vázquez
 * 🇪🇸 Santiago Aldama
 * 🇦🇷 Jorge Racca
 * 🇦🇺 Brad Newley
 * 🇧🇷 Vítor Benite
 * 🇨🇦 Carl English
 * 🇨🇻 Walter Tavares
 * 🇪🇪 Siim-Sander Vene
 * 🇫🇮 Sasu Salin
 * Michael Bramos
 * 🇬🇧 Joel Freeland
 * 🇭🇺 Kornél Dávid
 * 🇮🇹 Vincenzo Esposito
 * -🇺🇸 Jim Moran
 * -🇺🇸 Jay Larrañaga
 * -🇺🇸 Pat Burke
 * 🇮🇱 Gal Mekel
 * Anžejs Pasečņiks
 * 🇲🇰-🇺🇸 Bo McCalebb
 * 🇳🇿 Kirk Penney
 * 🇸🇳-🇪🇸 Sitapha Savané
 * 🇺🇸 Willie 'Hutch' Jones
 * 🇺🇸 Tom Scheffler
 * 🇺🇸 Shaun Vandiver
 * 🇺🇸 Albert Burditt
 * 🇺🇸 John Morton
 * 🇺🇸 Bernard Hopkins
 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Miller
 * 🇺🇸 Rex Walters
 * 🇺🇸 Marcus Goree
 * 🇺🇸-🇳🇬 Ime Udoka
 * 🇺🇸 Will McDonald
 * 🇺🇸 Billy Keys
 * 🇺🇸 Kennedy Winston
 * 🇺🇸 Harper Williams
 * 🇺🇸- Marcus Norris
 * 🇺🇸-🇱🇧 Jackson Vroman
 * 🇺🇸-🇦🇿 Nik Caner-Medley
 * 🇺🇸 James Augustine
 * 🇺🇸-🇨🇬 CJ Wallace
 * 🇺🇸-🇦🇿 Jaycee Carroll
 * 🇩🇴Eulis Báez