Esporte Clube Pinheiros (basketball)

Esporte Clube Pinheiros, or Pinheiros Basquete, is a Brazilian professional basketball team that is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The club's name is commonly abbreviated as E.C. Pinheiros, or E.C.P. The full name of the club is Esporte Clube Pinheiros São Paulo (E.C.P.S.P.). It is a part of the multi-sports club, Esporte Clube Pinheiros (E.C.P.) which among other sports, fields a men's professional basketball team. The club was originally known as Sport Club Germânia (S.C. Germânia). The club plays in the top-tier level Brazilian League, the NBB.

History
The club's parent athletic club, Esporte Clube Pinheiros, was founded in 1899, under the name Sport Club Germânia (S.C. Germânia). The club's name was changed to Esporte Clube Pinheiros (E.C.P), in 1941. In the 2005–06 season, E.C. Pinheiros participated for the first time in the professional first division of Brazilian basketball, but then failed to qualify for the single league that resulted from the merging of the conferences. In the 2008–09 season, Pinheiros joined the new top-tier level Brazilian league, the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB), under the sponsored name, Pinheiros/Sky. The club finished 2nd in the FIBA South American League in 2011, and also finished 2nd in the InterLeagues Tournament in 2011 and 2012.

In 2013, the team won its first international tournament, the most important tournament of Latin America, the FIBA Americas League, with two victories against the host team, Capitanes de Arecibo, of the Puerto Rican League, and the Argentine League club CA Lanús. In the second round, Pinheiros also needed a Capitanes victory over the Brazilian League club, UniCEUB/BRB, the team that had eliminated Pinheiros in the two previous editions of the NBB. And it happened - the team from Puerto Rico, beat the defending three time Brazilian League champions, helping Pinheiros to win its first international title.

Pinheiros thus qualified to play at the 2013 edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, against the defending back-to-back EuroLeague champions, Olympiacos. Pinheiros lost the series two games to none, losing the first game by a score of 81–70, and the second game by a score of 86–69.

Arenas
E.C. Pinheiros plays its home games at the Ginásio Poliesportivo Henrique Villaboim, which is located on the club's home grounds, at Jardim Europa.

Worldwide

 * FIBA Intercontinental Cup
 * Runners-up (1): 2013

Latin America

 * FIBA Americas League
 * Champions (1): 2013
 * Runners-up (1): 2014

Continental

 * FIBA South American League
 * Runners-up (1): 2011
 * InterLeagues Tournament
 * Runners-up (2): 2011, 2012

Regional

 * São Paulo State Championship
 * Champions (1): 2011
 * Runners-up (2): 2010, 2012

Notable players
• 🇧🇷 Rafael "Bábby" Araújo

• 🇧🇷 André Bambu

• 🇧🇷 Leandrinho Barbosa

• 🇧🇷 Vítor Benite

• 🇧🇷 Paulinho Boracini

• 🇧🇷 Bruno Caboclo

• 🇧🇷 Georginho de Paula

• 🇧🇷 Lucas Dias

• 🇧🇷 Shilton dos Santos

• 🇧🇷 Rolando Ferreira

• 🇧🇷 Alex Garcia

• 🇧🇷 Guilherme Giovannoni

• 🇧🇷 Ricardo Guimarães

• 🇧🇷 Marcelinho Huertas

• 🇧🇷 Rafa Mineiro

• 🇧🇷 Carlos Olivinha

• 🇧🇷 Diego Pinheiro

• 🇧🇷 Davi Rossetto

• 🇧🇷 Milton Setrini

• 🇧🇷 Humberto Silva

• 🇧🇷 Jonathan Tavernari

• 🇧🇷 Marcus Toledo

• 🇧🇷 Caio Torres

• 🇧🇷 Marquinhos Vieira

• 🇺🇸/🇧🇷 Shamell Stallworth

• 🇺🇸 Jamison Brewer

• 🇺🇸 Joe Troy Smith

Head coaches

 * 🇧🇷 Cláudio Mortari
 * 🇧🇷 Marcel de Souza