2023-08-25 13:00:00
Ex-supporters of the BBU Salzburg around Adrian Mitchell and Raphael Miksch want to get to the top quickly with the new club.
Adrian Mitchell was the face of BBU Salzburg for many years, while teammate Raphael Miksch also assumed responsibility as chairman of the second division basketball team. In May there was a not entirely smooth separation – because of differences about the goals of the club. Mitchell and Miksch will remain in Salzburg basketball. Because with their ex-BBU colleagues Dominik Klocker and Lukas Blank, they recently founded a new basketball club, the BC Salzburg Knights.
“It’s a friends’ project. We want to give something back to our community and create more opportunities to play basketball in Salzburg,” says chairman Miksch, who – like in his time at BBU – doesn’t shy away from high goals. The new men’s team should only play one season in the national league. As early as 2024, the leap into the 2nd Bundesliga should succeed, by 2028 the Salzburg Knights even want to reach Austria’s top division. At the same time, the next generation is to be promoted and a women’s team established. “The youth will be at the heart,” it says.
Training will take place in various school halls in Salzburg from September 11th (details under www.salzburgknights.at) in six age groups from the U10 to the state league team, to which Klocker also belongs as a player. Mitchell, Miksch and Blank are playing for Traunstein this year. “If everything goes according to plan, we’ll get into the 2nd Bundesliga next year,” emphasizes Miksch, who doesn’t see his club as competing with the former club or BSC Salzburg, which is also very active in the city. “We only look at ourselves and our members, we want to do our thing.”
The fact that an ice hockey club and a canoe polo club in Salzburg also go by the name of “Knights” doesn’t bother them. Miksch emphasizes: “Ritter simply goes well with Salzburg with its fortress.”
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