BC Wolves
BC Wolves is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in the city of Vilnius. The team competes in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and internationally in the EuroCup. The team plays its home games at the 10,000-seat Avia Solutions Group Arena. History The club was founded on 2 June 2022, with the name Wolves referring to the mythical Iron Wolf and the founding legend of the city of Vilnius. The license of BC Dzūkija was used starting from the 2022–23 LKL season. LKL league expanded to 12 teams again, and a second basketball club appeared in the capital after for more than a decade. Nevertheless, the club is viewed with skepticism by some Lithuanian basketball community. Some of them do not like the new club because it appeared in the top league based on monetary over playing principles, and others because of the club owner's alleged connection with the Russian business. Wolves claim its main objectives to be strengthening the Lithuanian basketball, attracting solid players, raising co-competition between the LKL clubs, and upholding ambitions to reach the level of an elite European basketball club. After only two years of existence, Wolves have reached a place in Europe's second-tier club tournament,