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(詳細はbasketball team located in Thessaloniki. It serves as the basketball section of the multi-sport club G.S. Iraklis. Iraklis will play in the Greek A2 for the 2015–16 season. The team colors are blue and white. Iraklis has won the Greek National Championship in 1928 and 1935 and has also reached the Greek Basketball Cup final three times. Several international players have played for the club including Dimitris Diamantidis, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Nikos Chatzivrettas, Lefteris Kakiousis, Jure Zdovc and Vasily Karasev as well as NBA stars such as Roy Tarpley, Xavier McDaniel and James Donaldson. ==History== The parent athletic club was founded in 1908 and initially featured football. The club is named after Heracles (or Hercules), the mythical Greek demigod. The basketball team of Iraklis was established in 1924. Iraklis has won the inaugural Greek Leaguechampionship in 1928. To win the championship, Iraklis had to eliminate AEK Athens, Near East before beating VAO in the championship game The team has won its second Greek championship in 1935.〔 Also in the team's history, three times Iraklis has won the second place in the Greek Championship (1936, 1962, 1964), three times Iraklis has been a Greek Cup finalist (1981, 1994, 1996) and two times Iraklis has made it to the semifinals of the Cup Winners' Cup.〔(Iraklis club history. )〕 Iraklis reached the semi-finals of the 1994–95 FIBA European Cup where he competed against Taugrés. Iraklis won the first game 79–78, but lost the next two to be eliminated 2–1 in a best of three series.〔 In 1996, an Iraklis team led by former NBAers Xavier McDaniel and Roy Tarpley, reached the Greek Basketball Cup final four. By winning Apollon Patras in the semi-final, Iraklis reached the final where it lost 85–74 to Panathinaikos.〔 Iraklis has also twice competed in the top European continental competitions. The club played in the European Champions' Cup in the 1995-96 season and also competed in the Suproleague during the 2000-01 season. In 2006 Iraklis was relegated to the Greek A2 Basketball League after finishing 13th in the league. In 2010, after four seasons in the second tier the team was promoted to the Greek Basket League. After one season in the top tier Iraklis was relegated to A2, with two matches left in the season. At the end of the season, Iraklis chose to play in the third tier of Greek basketball to clear its debt. The club was promoted to the Greek A2 Basketball League in 2013, after finishing 2nd in his group and Peristeri failed to receive financial clearance to participate in the league. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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