Founded in 1985 under the name
Agrupación Deportiva Júver Murcia, the owners agreed with a Madrid-based club, Logos de Madrid, to buy out its rights to play in the Spanish second division. Murcia would play at that level for four consecutive seasons and its first superstar was do-it-all big man
Randy Owens. In 1990, Murcia, led by veteran center
Mike Phillips, beat
Obradoiro in a playoffs series to gain promotion to the
Spanish League. The club would stay in the Spanish elite for the next seven seasons, with stars likes Ralph McPherson,
Clarence Kea,
Michael Anderson and
Johnny Rogers and head coaches like Felipe Coello, José María Oleart and
Moncho Monsalve. In December 1991,
Kea pulled down 29 rebounds, which remains a
Spanish League record, in a win against
Breogán Lugo. . The club became
CB Murcia in 1993 and moved to its current arena,
Palacio de Deportes, the following season. Murcia organized the
Copa del Rey tournament in the
1995–96 season and made it to the
semifinals. Murcia went down to the
Spanish second division at the end of the
1996–97 season, but reached the Spanish elite a couple of times, including in 2006, when it downed
CAI Zaragoza in overtime in a do-or-die game to advance. Led by Jimmie Hunter and Juanjo Triguero, Murcia ranked 12th in the
2007–08 season, but went back to the
second division two years later. Murcia bounced back to score promotion directly with a 30–4 record, and has been in the Spanish elite even since. In 2013, the club switched hands and
UCAM Murcia took control. That moved helped Murcia shine in the last couple of seasons for its best results ever. With Diego Ocampo as head coach and
Scott Bamforth,
Raulzinho Neto and
Carlos Cabezas as its top newcomers, Murcia finished the
Spanish regular season with a 17–17 record, which was just one win from the playoffs. Last season Murcia found a new coach in
Fotios Katsikaris and added more experienced players like
Facundo Campazzo,
Serhiy Lishchuk and
Vítor Faverani. That led to a seventh-place finish with an 18–16 record and a ticket to the quarterfinals for the first time in the club's history, where it lost 2–1 to
Real Madrid in the
quarterfinals, but earned the right to make its debut in European competitions in the
2016–17 EuroCup. In its European debut, UCAM Murcia reached the Top 16 round. In the next season, the club joined the
Basketball Champions League, reaching the
Final Four in its first participation. Murcia lost to
AEK in the semifinals and won the third place game over
MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg. In the
2023–24 ACB season Murcia reached the finals in the first time after beating
Valencia Basket in the quarterfinals and
Unicaja in the semifinals, but they lost to
Real Madrid in three games in
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