Bashkimi, or K.B. Bashkimi is a basketball club created in 1945.

Now Bashkimi competes in Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

's first division Siguria Superleague

Siguria Superleague

The Kosovo Basketball League is the top men's professional basketball league in Kosovar basketball , officially named after the sponsor Siguria Superleague.It consists of ten to twelve teams which compete each year in two separate phases...

. Its fan club is called Arpagjik't.

After the Kosovo War

Kosovo War

The term Kosovo War or Kosovo conflict was two sequential, and at times parallel, armed conflicts in Kosovo province, then part of FR Yugoslav Republic of Serbia; from early 1998 to 1999, there was an armed conflict initiated by the ethnic Albanian "Kosovo Liberation Army" , who sought independence...

of 1999, Bashkimi won the Kosovo Cup. The best-known players of the team since its founding include Davor Pejcinovic, Johny Philips, Lee Benson, Schin Kerr, Vedran Bosnic, Billy Armstrong, Bledar Gjeqaj, and William Njoku.

After a bad season, the club regained its fame bringing back the fans to watch games again. Its main players now are Artan Kurti (C), Donte Gennie, florian rexhepi, Korab Ferizi, Abdurrahman Kahrimanoviq, Visar Bunjaku, Qendrim Biraj, Urim Zenelaj, and Mark Marku. The coach is Jeton Nixha and now the team is one of the top 3 hopefuls the Kosovo Champion CUP.