Basketball club Liepāja returns to the European North Basketball league after a four year break. Third biggest Latvian city has been married with the Baltic Sea and ruling western winds. Once an important military port on the far western edge of the Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union, also interim capital during Latvia`s Independence War, now it serves as a trade port and summer resort. Liepāja has a rich basketball history. First local teams in Latvia were formed around 192