BC Prometey

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| leagues = Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague
Latvian-Estonian Basketball League

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| founded = {{Start date and age|2018}}

| dissolved = 2024

| history =BC Prometey
2018–2024

| arena = SC Prometey
Arena Riga

| capacity = 1,000 (SC Prometey)
11,200 (Arena Riga)

| location = Kamianske, Ukraine (2018–2021)
Slobozhanske, Ukraine (2021–2022)
Riga, Latvia (2022–2024)

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| coach =Ronen Ginzburg

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| championships =1 Ukrainian League
2 Higher League
2 Latvian–Estonian Basketball League

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| website =[http://prometeybc.com/en prometeybc.com]

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BC Prometey ({{langx|uk|БК Прометей}}), also known as Prometey Slobozhanske, was a Ukrainian basketball club based in Slobozhanske and Kamianske.{{cite web|url=https://fbu.ua/statistics/league-8185/team-4680421?season_id=105981|title=Статистика - Федерація баскетболу України|work=fbu.ua|accessdate=13 August 2019}} It played in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague, the highest tier of basketball in Ukraine, from 2019 to 2022.

From 2022 to 2024, the team was based in Riga and played in the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

History

File:BC Prometey logo.png

The team was founded as Sports Club Prometey in September 2018, by Volodymyr Dubynsky and Pavlo Chukhno.{{Cite web |title=BC "Prometey" |url=https://prometeybc.com/en/bcprometey_man_history |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=BC "Prometey" |language=en}} The plans were to develop a basketball and volleyball team.

In 2018, Prometey joined the Ukrainian Higher League, the national second tier. On October 8, 2018, they played their first game against Zolotyi Vik, winning 86–80. Prometey went on to win the league title at the first attempt. Therefore, it was promoted to the SuperLeague for the 2019–20 season.{{cite web|url=https://basketball.eurobasket.com/teamDetails.asp?id=49124&SectionName=Ukraine&TeamName=SC-Prometey-Kamianske&Page=5|title=SC Prometey Kamianske|work=basketball.eurobasket.com|accessdate=13 August 2019}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In its first SuperLeague season, Prometey was in third place before the season was shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following season, the club enrolled for the FIBA Europe Cup and made their European debut.

In 2021, Prometey won its first Ukrainian SuperLeague championship.{{cite news |title=Prometey celebrate SuperLeague title |url=https://www.eurobasket.com/Ukraine/news/688924/Prometey-celebrate-Superleague-title |access-date=23 June 2021 |work=Eurobasket.com |date=14 June 2021}} The following season, Prometey made its debut at the European stage when it played in the Qualifying Rounds of the 2021–22 Basketball Champions League. In its debut season, it immediately qualified for the regular season and then advanced to the round of 16. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Prometey withdrew from the competition and disbanded all teams of the club as club president Volodymyr Dubinskyi cited: "All money and resources should go to the army. Win first. Then everything.".{{cite web |title=Prometey withdrawing from BCL |url=https://www.eurohoops.net/en/fiba-champions-league/1316565/prometey-withdrawing-from-bcl/ |website=Eurohoops |access-date=5 March 2022 |language=en |date=5 March 2022}} All the club's teams were dissolved in March 2022.{{cite web |date=5 March 2022 |title=Prometey disbands all the club's teams and refuses from the participation in Champions League! |url=https://prometeybc.com/en/novosti/prometey-disbands-all-clubs-teams-and-refuses-participation-champions-league |access-date=17 June 2022 |website=prometeybc.com |language=}}

In June 2022, Prometey was included in the list of teams participating in the 2022–23 EuroCup Basketball.{{Cite web |title=2022-23 EuroLeague and EuroCup participating teams confirmed |url=https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/news/2022-23-euroleague-and-eurocup-participating-teams-confirmed/?pageTitle=Homepage&historyUrl=/ |access-date=17 June 2022 |work=Euroleague Basketball |date=16 June 2022}} The team practiced and played their home games in Riga, as playing in Ukraine was not possible due to the war.{{cite web |title= Prometey, London Lions, Paris Basketball join EuroCup for 2022-23 season |url=https://www.eurohoops.net/en/eurocup/1358211/prometey-london-lions-paris-basketball-join-eurocup-for-2022-23-season/ |website=Eurohoops |access-date=17 June 2022 |language= |date=16 June 2022}} Prometey reached the semifinals of the EuroCup in 2023.

Prometey also joined the Latvian–Estonian Basketball League, consisting of teams from Estonia and Latvia, and won two consecutive league titles.

The club shut down its operations in the summer of 2024, as the team had been dealing with legal troubles with Ukrainian police and investigators launching a high-profile investigation concerning club president Dubinskiy and his companies.{{Cite web |title=BC Prometey shut down as founder faces legal troubles |url=https://basketnews.com/news-210562-bc-prometey-shut-down-as-founder-faces-legal-troubles.html |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=basketnews.com |language=en}} The club's men's and women's volleyball section were also shut down.

Honours

Ukrainian SuperLeague
Champions (1): 2020–21
Ukrainian Higher League
Winners (2): 2018–19, 2023–24
Latvian-Estonian League
Champions (2): 2022–23, 2023–24

Season by season

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"

|align="center" bgcolor="FFFCAF"| Champions

|align="center" bgcolor="E5E5E5"| Runners-up

|align="center" bgcolor="BBF3BB"| Promoted

|align="center" bgcolor="bce8e8"| Playoff berth

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" summary="Season (sortable), Team, Conference, Conference finish (sortable), Division, Division finish (sortable), Wins (sortable), Losses (sortable), Win% (sortable), GB (sortable), Playoffs, Awards and Head coach"
scope="col"\| Season !scope="col"\| Tier !scope="col"\| League !scope="col"\| Finish !scope="col"\| Wins !scope="col"\| Losses !scope="col"\| Win% !scope="col" class="unsortable"\|Playoffs !scope="col" class="unsortable"\|Other competitions !scope="col"\|Head coach
colspan="12" align=center style="border:2px solid silver; background-color:#ee3224" \| Prometey Kamianske
2018–19 \|2 \|Ukrainian Higher League \|bgcolor=#bce8e8\|1st \|26 \|2 \|{{Winning percentage\|26\|2}} \|bgcolor=#BBF3BB\|Won semi-finals (Khimik-2), 2–0 Won finals (Rivne), 3–0 \| – \| Dmitry Markov
2019–20 \|1 \|Ukrainian SuperLeague \|3rd \|16 \|8 \|{{Winning percentage\|16\|8}} \|Curtailed due to COVID-19 pandemic \| – \|Kārlis Muižnieks
2020–21 \|1 \|Ukrainian SuperLeague \|bgcolor=#bce8e8\|3rd \|27 \|13 \|{{Winning percentage\|27\|13}} \|bgcolor=#FFFCAF\|Winners Won quarterfinals (Khimik, 3–0) Won semifinals (Dnipro, 3–1) Won finals (Zaporizhzhia, 3–0) \|FIBA Europe Cup Round of 16 \|Vitaliy Cherniy Ronen Ginzburg
2021–22 \|1 \|Ukrainian SuperLeague \|1st \|25 \|1 \|{{Winning percentage\|25\|1}} \|Curtailed and voided due to Russian invasion of Ukraine \|Champions League Round of 16 \|Ronen Ginzburg
2022–23 \|1 \|Latvian–Estonian \|bgcolor=#bce8e8\|1st \|29 \|1 \|{{Winning percentage\|29\|1}} \|bgcolor=#FFFCAF\|Winners Won quarterfinals (Viimsi, 2–1) Won semifinal (Tartu, 89–69) Won final (VEF Rīga, 77–62) \|EuroCup Basketball SF \|Ronen Ginzburg

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" summary="Season (sortable), Team, Conference, Conference finish (sortable), Division, Division finish (sortable), Wins (sortable), Losses (sortable), Win% (sortable), GB (sortable), Playoffs, Awards and Head coach"

scope="col"| Season

!scope="col"| Tier

!scope="col"| League

!scope="col"| Finish

!scope="col"| Wins

!scope="col"| Losses

!scope="col"| Win%

!scope="col" class="unsortable"|Playoffs

!scope="col" class="unsortable"|Other competitions

!scope="col"|Head coach

colspan="12" align=center style="border:2px solid silver; background-color:#ee3224" | Prometey Kamianske

2018–19

|Ukrainian Higher League

|bgcolor=#bce8e8|1st

|26

|{{Winning percentage|26|2}}

|bgcolor=#BBF3BB|Won semi-finals (Khimik-2), 2–0
Won finals (Rivne), 3–0

| –

| Dmitry Markov

2019–20

|Ukrainian SuperLeague

|3rd

|16

|{{Winning percentage|16|8}}

|Curtailed due to COVID-19 pandemic

| –

|Kārlis Muižnieks

2020–21

|Ukrainian SuperLeague

|bgcolor=#bce8e8|3rd

|27

|13

|{{Winning percentage|27|13}}

|bgcolor=#FFFCAF|Winners
Won quarterfinals (Khimik, 3–0)
Won semifinals (Dnipro, 3–1)
Won finals (Zaporizhzhia, 3–0)

|FIBA Europe Cup
Round of 16

|Vitaliy Cherniy
Ronen Ginzburg

2021–22

|Ukrainian SuperLeague

|1st

|25

|{{Winning percentage|25|1}}

|Curtailed and voided due to Russian invasion of Ukraine

|Champions League
Round of 16

|Ronen Ginzburg

2022–23

|Latvian–Estonian

|bgcolor=#bce8e8|1st

|29

|{{Winning percentage|29|1}}

|bgcolor=#FFFCAF|Winners
Won quarterfinals (Viimsi, 2–1)
Won semifinal (Tartu, 89–69)
Won final (VEF Rīga, 77–62)

|EuroCup Basketball
SF

|Ronen Ginzburg

Head coaches

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2018–2019	{{flagicon\|UKR}} Dmitry Markov
2019–2020	{{flagicon\|LAT}} Kārlis Muižnieks
2020–2021	{{flagicon\|UKR}} Vitaliy Cherniy
2021–2024	{{flagicon\|CZE}} Ronen Ginzburg

Notable players

{{flagicon|USA}} Davon Reed 1 season: 2023
{{flagicon|USA}} Rashad Vaughn 1 season: 2020–21
{{flagicon|USA}} D. J. Stephens 3 seasons: 2020–23
{{flagicon|USA}} D. J. Kennedy 3 seasons: 2021–24
{{flagicon|PUR}} Gian Clavell 2 seasons: 2022–24
{{flagicon|CZE}} Ondřej Balvín 2 seasons: 2022–24
{{flagicon|NGR}} Caleb Agada 2 seasons: 2022–24
{{flagicon|UKR}} Denys Lukashov 5 seasons: 2019–24
{{flagicon|UKR}} Oleksandr Lypovyy 4 seasons: 2020–24
{{flagicon|UKR}} Viacheslav Petrov 3 seasons: 2020–23
{{flagicon|UKR}} Oleksandr Belikov 1 season: 2020–21
{{flagicon|UKR}} Issuf Sanon 2 seasons: 2022–24
{{flagicon|UKR}} Ivan Tkachenko 2 seasons: 2022–24
{{flagicon|UKR}} Illia Sydorov 5 seasons: 2019–24
{{flagicon|LTU}} Arnoldas Kulboka 1 season: 2023-24

References

External links

[http://prometeybc.com/ Official website]

Category:Basketball teams in Ukraine

Category:Basketball teams disestablished in 2024

Category:Basketball teams established in 2018

Category:Defunct basketball teams

Category:Defunct basketball teams in Ukraine

Category:Sport in Kamianske

Category:2018 establishments in Ukraine