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Wikipedia - CB Prat
Club Bàsquet Prat is a basketball team based in El Prat de Llobregat, Catalonia (Spain). The team currently plays in league LEB Plata.
History
Basketball arrived to El Prat de Llobregat in 1932 with the constitution of the Esplai Grupo 49 in the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia. Basketball continued being played in the parish of Sant Pere i Sant Pau before 1951, when the Club Bàsquet Prat is founded.
The club started playing in the regional leagues until 1962, when the club achieves promotion the Spanish second division for the first time in its history; remaining in the league after their debut season, by winning the relegation playoffs.
In the 1990s the club signs a collaboration agreement with former EuroLeague winner Joventut Badalona, becoming its affiliated team and playing with the name of CB Prat Joventut.
In 2003, the club promotes to LEB Plata, third tier, by beating Colmenar Viejo and Granollers in the matches of the Final Eight.
Since its promotion, the club consolidated in LEB Plata until 2014, when it won the Copa LEB Plata and promoted to LEB Oro. In its first season, the club was relegated to LEB Plata again, but remained in the league after being reinstated due to the existence of vacant places.
In 2016, CB Prat terminated its collaboration agreement with Joventut Badalona. Two years later, the club qualified for the first time to the playoffs, where they reached the semifinals, being eliminated in the last match of the series by Club Melilla Baloncesto.
Tým byl založen v roce 1930 a v roce 1957 se připojil ke španělské národní lize. V roce 1960 tým sestoupil z ligy a v roce 1965 se rozpustil. V roce 1975 byl tým obnoven a v roce 1986 se vrátil do španělské národní ligy. V roce 1992 tým opět sestoupil z ligy a v roce 2000 se znovu rozpustil.
V roce 2003 byl tým znovu obnoven a v roce 2005 se připojil k LEB Bronce, třetí nejvyšší soutěži v zemi. V roce 2008 tým postoupil do LEB Silver, druhé nejvyšší soutěže. V roce 2014 tým sestoupil do LEB Bronce, ale v roce 2016 postoupil zpět do LEB Silver.
Mezi nejznámější hráče, kteří hráli za Prat, patří Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol, Ricky Rubio a Sergio Rodríguez.