Dragons Rhoendorf is a professional basketball

Basketball

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 club based in Bad Honnef

Bad Honnef

Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate...

, North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

, Germany

Germany

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. The team had its most successful years from 1995 to 1999 when it played in the Basketball Bundesliga

Basketball Bundesliga

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 where it reached the semi-finals in 1999. Since then, the club has voluntarily moved down to the lower divisions and sold its Basketball Bundesliga

Basketball Bundesliga

The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...

 license twice. (1999 it was sold to Skyliners Frankfurt in 2000 to RheinEnergy Cologne) In 2010, the team won the Pro B (3rd Division) and again, gained the right to move up to the second division.