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Wörthersee Piraten with record and transfer coup

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The second league basketball team Wörthersee Piraten remains the team of the hour. Now they have even broken an internal club record and reinforcement from the Bundesliga is just around the corner! And: Carinthia's top player Rasid Mahalbasic returns from Mexico as runner-up. 

Who can stop the Wörthersee Pirates? The Klagenfurt second division basketball team celebrated its tenth win in a row at the weekend - and broke the club's internal all-time record from the 2006/07 first division season. Andi Kuttnig's squad also swept Salzburg off the floor yesterday - with a clear 86:61 win, in which Andreas Nuck in particular made a big impression with 27 points. "He hit twelve out of 14 shots, that's outstanding. He simply fulfilled his role perfectly," said a beaming Kuttnig at the end.

And now the Pirates obviously want more! Because (as "Kärntner Krone" newspaper readers already know) reinforcements from the Bundesliga have arrived! In the person of Lukas Simoner. The Klagenfurt native is a true Pirate and played here until 2020. The 25-year-old guard, who made his national team debut in 2022, was already spotted in the derby against KOS at St. Peter-Halle and could pull on the jersey of his former club again on Saturday at Güssing.

For Klagenfurt's Rasid Mahalbasic, meanwhile, the season is over. The 34-year-old lost the fifth final game of the best-of-7 series with Xalapa against the Diablos Rojos from Mexico City by 76:82 in the Mexican top league and will have to settle for the runners-up spot. The center will return to Klagenfurt this week.