PS Karlsruhe Lions



PS Karlsruhe Lions is a German professional basketball team located in Karlsruhe. The team competes in Germany's ProA league, the country's second division. In 2017, the team promoted from the third tier ProB to the second tier. The team is part of the multi-sports club Post Südstadt Karlsruhe (PSK).

As of 2024, the team has been the reigning champion of the German ProA league.

History
Basketball has been played at PSK in the southern Karlsruhe district of Weiherfeld-Dammerstock since 1961. In the following decades, the department celebrated numerous regional and national successes. In 2016, the PS Karlsruhe Lions had four men's teams and two women's teams registered for play. In addition, there were numerous youth teams from U10 to U18. Until 2016, there was a cooperation with BG Karlsruhe, which had emerged in 1993 from the basketball departments of PSK and its neighboring club, FC Südstern. Due to the promotion of the first men's team of the PS Karlsruhe Lions to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB, the cooperation was terminated in May 2016, as both teams competed in the same league in the 2016/17 season. The first Karlsruhe women's team played in the Regionalliga Südwest.

Arenas
Until 2017, the club played in the Friedrich-List-Schule, which had a capacity of 862 people. In the 2017–18 season, following the club's promotion to the ProA, the Lions started playing in the Europahalle Karlsruhe which has a capacity of 1,500 people. In 2020, they moved to the Lina-Radke-Halle. (1,500 seats)

For the 2024-25 season, the Lions will return to the Europahalle with an anticipated capacity of 3,500 visitors.

Honors
ProA


 * Champions: 2023–24

Notable players
• 🇩🇪 Horst Wolf

• 🇨🇲 Roland Nyama

• Darko Bajo

•  Ivan Karačić

• 🇨🇿 Adam Pechacek

•  Bakary Dibba

•  Carl Ona-Embo

• 🇨🇮 Bazoumana Kone

• 🇺🇸 Lovell Cabbil

• 🇺🇸 Greg Foster

• 🇺🇸 Justin Gordon

• 🇺🇸 Richard Williams

Head coaches

 * 🇺🇸 Michael Mai (2017–2018)
 * Ivan Rudež (2018–2020)
 * 🇩🇪 Drazan Salavarda (2020–2021)
 * Aleksandar Scepanovic (2021–present)