| Niigata Albirex BB | |
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| Leagues: | B.League |
| Arena: | City Hall Plaza Aore Nagaoka |
| Location: | Nagaoka, Niigata |
| Colors: | Orange and Blue |
| Sponsor: | Sanko Seika |
| Championships: | 2 |
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| H Pattern B: | _NIIGATA AlbirexBB 19–20 HOME |
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| H Pattern S: | _NIIGATA AlbirexBB 19–20 HOME |
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| A Pattern B: | _NIIGATA AlbirexBB 19–20 AWAY |
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The Niigata Albirex BB are a professional basketball team based in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan that compete in the first division of the Japanese B.League.[1]
The club was founded in 1954 as the company team of Daiwa Securities, a Tokyo-based securities brokerage. In 1991, it joined the Japan Basketball League. In 2000, the company club was dissolved after NSG purchased it, and the club was moved before the 2000–2001 season to Niigata and renamed Albirex.
In 2004, it joined the bj league along with five other clubs.
| Year | League | Division | Regular Season | Semifinal | Final | Finish | ||||
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| Win | Lose | Place | Win | Lose | Win | Lose | ||||
| 2000 | JBL | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2nd | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Champions |
| 2001/2002 | JBL | 14 | 0 | 1st | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Champions | |
| 2002/2003 | JBL Super League | 2 | 9 | 6th | colspan="4" | --- | 6th | |||
| 2003/2004 | 9 | 19 | 8th | colspan="4" | --- | 8th | ||||
| 2004/2005 | 8 | 20 | 7th | colspan="4" | --- | 7th | ||||
| Season | League | Regular Season | Finish | Average Crowd | ||||||
| Win | Lose | Win% | GB | Place | ||||||
| 2005/2006 | bj league | 29 | 11 | .725 | 2.0 | 2nd | Runners-up | - | ||
| 2006/2007 | 25 | 15 | .625 | 4.0 | 2nd | 4th | 3,008 | |||
| 2007/2008 | 26 | 18 | .591 | 3.0 | East 3rd | 6th | 3,259 | |||
| 2008/2009 | 24 | 28 | .462 | 12.0 | East 4th | - | ||||
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