Basketball is one of the most popular and most loved sports. It builds teamwork, skill and agility. We wanted to contribute to all of that and gradually got involved.

A few years ago we were among the supporters of Cluj’s basketball club. We then broadened our involvement to encourage future generations of players, teaming up with Ghita Muresan to organize the “Ghita Muresan Summer Camp School” for children in several cities around the country. Last year we took a big step and became the main financial backer of the U-BT Cluj-Napoca Sports Club and the official sponsor of the Women’s National Basketball Team in the EuroBasket Women 2017 qualifying campaign.

More recently, we decided to raise our game alongside the Romanian Basketball Federation, with whom we achieved a European attendance record in the EuroBasket Women 2017 qualifiers: nearly 7,000 spectators attended the Romania–Turkey game held in Cluj-Napoca.

We look forward to the 2016–2017 season for both the Men’s and Women’s National Basketball Teams, as well as the Baby and Mini Basketball National Championship in Mangalia.

A few fun facts about basketball worldwide:

• Basketball was invented in 1891 by Canadian James A. Naismith.
• The shortest player ever to play in the NBA is Mugsy Bogues, at 1.60 m; he played in the NBA from 1987 to 2001.
• The tallest player ever to play in the NBA is the Romanian Gheorghe Muresan, at 2.31 m; he played in the NBA from 1993 to 2000.
• Basketball officially became an Olympic sport at the 1936 Berlin Games.
• The American Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons in the NBA and holds the record for the most career points, 38,387.
• On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain set the record for the most points scored by a single player in a game, 100.
• Michael Jordan is considered the greatest player in the modern history of basketball; he played from 1983 to 2003 with the Chicago Bulls.