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K�ln 99ers

Is a basketball team, located in Cologne, Germany and plays in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).

The club was first named Cologne 99ers when founded, back in 1999. In 2001 the RheinEnergie power company begin to sponsor the team, that consequently changed its name to RheinEnergie K�ln, better known as RE K�ln or REK. After almost 6 years the company supporting the club, which change its name again to K�ln 99ers.

The Koln 99ers' home arena in the BBL is the GEW Energy Dome and for some special events they use the K�lnarena. Their local rivals are Bayer Giants Leverkusen and Telekom Baskets Bonn, and are some of the favorite encounters from the BBL; while the favorite ones in the German basketball are those against ALBA Berlin and Brose Baskets.

By January 2008 the team seemed to be having some financial problems, when they announced they were insolvent. But two months later they resolved the problem.

2008/09 Squad

(Last update: 23.08.2008)

#	Name	Position	Birth Year	Height
7	Danilo Smigic	Point Guard	23.6.1984	1,90 m
11	Zarryon Fereti	Shoting Guard	15.5.1984	1,91 m
13	Manuel Krumbach	Power Forward	12.7.1990	2,03 m
15	Florian Nesgen	Small Forward	22.10.1989	1,96 m
16	Joel Mondo	Shoting Guard	9.8.1988	1,83 m
17	Philipp Schwethelm	Small Forward	1.5.1989	2,00 m
18	Tibor Pleiß	Center	2.11.1989	2,15 m
19	Davis Martens	Small Forward	13.9.1989	2,04 m
21	Robert Turner	Porwer Forward	21.9.1982	2,06 m
24	Jeremy Hunt	Shoting Guard	18.8.1983	1,96 m
44	Bj�rn Schoo	Center	30.6.1981	2,13 m

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