Karà Âñyaka Basket is a Turkish professional basketball team located in Karà Âñyaka, ðzmir, that competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League. It is a section of the multi-sport club Karà Âñyaka SK. The team also goes by the name of KSK, which stands for Karà Âñyaka Spor Kulübü (i.e. Karà Âñyaka Sport Club).
Karà Âñyaka SK was founded in 1912 and opened its basketball section in 1966. Karà Âñyaka Basket is considered to be one of the most important basketball teams in all of Turkey. They first played in the Turkish Basketball League in 1966. They relegated to lower divisions in 1968. The club also played in lower divisions from 1968 to 1974. The team is still participating in the Turkish Basketball League since 1974. Karà Âñyaka Basket was sponsored by Yaà Âar Holding's Food and Beverage Group; Pñnar between 1998 and 2024. Their home arena is the Karà Âñyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.
Karà Âñyaka set to name Ufuk Sarñca as head coach in the summer of 2012. Sarñca was dreamed to be in Euroleague with Karà Âñyaka and he said that "We have a dream and we want to be in Euroleague in 3 years." On February 9, 2014, the team won the Turkish Cup with a victory against Anadolu Efes under managing Ufuk Sarñca. It was the first championship of club in Turkish Cup. On October 8, 2014, the team won the President's Cup by beating Fenerbahçe ÃÂlker. In the 2014âÂÂ15, Karà Âñyaka won its second Turkish League after 1987 championship, despite finishing the regular season in the fourth place, by defeating Fenerbahçe ÃÂlker in the playoffs semifinals by 3âÂÂ1 and Anadolu Efes 4âÂÂ1 in the finals.
On 29 July 2015, EuroLeague announced the participating teams for the following season and included Karà Âñyaka with for the 2015âÂÂ16 EuroLeague season. In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.
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