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Real Madrid Basketball is basketball section of the Real Madrid football club. The section was created in 1932 thanks to the hand of inexhaustible Angel Cabrera. It is the club most highly acclaimed of Spain and the FIBA basketball, and the only next to the Student Basketball Club of Madrid and the club Joventut Badalona which has always played for the highest level of basketball Spanish.

Angel Cabrera makes in 1922 the first basketball team in Castile. On November 19, 1930 inserted a notice in the newspaper ABC to locate players volunteers. The first players of this project would include: Hermes, Holes, Gutierrez, Castelví, Jenaro Lolives, Arnaiz, etc.. The first training took place in the field of Standard. In 1932 was officially founded the club. With football and consolidated, the president Sánchez-Guerra looking to develop other sports engrandecieran the club. Thus was born in Madrid basketball, sports that eventually was gaining adherents and has finished making it one of the best letters for the club outside our borders.

The April 13, 1932 was the first match played between Catalonia and Madrid. It was held in Barcelona in the trail of The Bordeta, face the Spanish and Madrid. Madrid beat by 24-19. The team included Barcelona Anselmo Lopez, who years later would become the coach of all Madrid. Juan Negrín Jr. Son of the late president of the Second Republic, played in Madrid in the two seasons (1934-35 and 1935-36) prior to the Spanish Civil War.

One of the key dates for the entity is the arrival in 1952 of Raimundo Saporta, where the club met its silver jubilee. Saporta was the entrepreneur of the basket, one of the most qualified men for the management and organization of the sport. Thanks to his knowledge, the club has become the largest in Europe.

At the technical level, two people shone with its own name: Pedro Ferrándiz and Lolo Sainz. Ferrándiz is regarded as the undisputed number one in the history of European basketball, with 15 leagues, 14 cups and 4 European Cups, presenting a record unmatched so far. He was the first to introduce innovations of USA basketball and pioneer in the exchange with American coaches. Elected as a successor to Lolo Sainz and was unable to choose the best, because without reaching match his successor, Sáinz harvested an impressive bouquet of national and European titles for the section, in its thirty years tied to the bench white. In the distant days of players like Braña, Arnaiz, Negrín, Olives, Borrás, etc., until today, the club have desfilado the best national and international players. Among the biggest highlights Emiliano Rodriguez, the great idol of the 60, who won 24 major titles in his career. Emiliano excelled in a team triumphant, where despuntaron the Ramos brothers, Clifford Luyk, Sainz, etc.. Over the years, another player you supliría in the continental ladder: Dr. Corbalán, the best basis Spanish ever, and possibly one of the best in Europe. Capitaneó to Madrid in its second golden age alongside Brabender, Rullan Cabrera, Christopher, Prada, Iturriaga, Romay, etc., players who relinquished the baton to a new generation of players and great as Biriukov, Llorente, Fernando Martin (the latter tragically died in a car accident and that among other achievements was the first Spanish player to participate in the NBA with the Portland Trail Blazers team).

As for foreigners have been many very good players who have served in this team. Those who left were more footprint: Higtower, Burgess, Fox, Aiken, Coughran, Mc Intrye, Walter, Meister, Rogers, Jackson, Spriggs, Anderson, Delibasic, Dalipagic, Petrovic (also died and player in the NBA), Simpson, Jackson, Brown, Roberts, and more recently Savic, Arlauckas, Sabonis and Bodiroga.

NBA Europe Live Tour 2007

On September 11, 2007 there was a clash between Real Madrid and a team of the NBA, the Toronto Raptors, the team played Spaniards Jose Manuel Calderon and Jorge Garbajosa. The event was played at the Palais des Sports de la Comunidad de Madrid, before 15,000 spectators, with victory for the Spaniards with a tight 104-103. It becomes the third Spanish team in history to win a team of the NBA.

Bases •	23- Sergio Llull •	19- Kerem Tunceri •	24- Raúl Lopez Escoltas •	 7- Charles Smith •	22- Louis Bullock Aleros •	 5- Mikhalis Pelekanos •	15- Mumbrú Ala-Pivots •	17- Axel Hervelle Pivots •	 4- Venson Hamilton •	14- Lazaros Papadopoulos •	 8- Blagota Sekulic •	 9- Felipe Reyes Cabanas

•	Joan Plaza •	Zan Tabak •	Alberto Codeso •	José Antonio Blanco •	Joan Manuel Tarragó •	Manel Beaus •	Samuel Castillo •	Manuel González •	Óscar Múñoz •	José Luis Ciria •      Jorge Perez