Korea - KBL | 10/15 05:00 | - | Suwon Sonicboom v Mobis Phoebus | W | 76-85 | |
Korea - KBL Cup | 10/08 05:00 | - | Mobis Phoebus v Suwon Sonicboom | L | 72-74 | |
Korea - KBL Cup | 10/07 05:00 | - | Changwon Sakers v Ulsan Phoebus | W | 78-82 | |
Korea - KBL Cup | 10/04 07:00 | - | Korea Gas Corporation v Mobis Phoebus | W | 83-92 | |
Korea - KBL Cup | 10/02 07:00 | - | Ulsan Phoebus v Korea Gas Corporation | L | 80-87 | |
Korea - KBL | 04/13 10:00 | 3 | [5] Goyang Orions v Mobis Phoebus [4] | L | 89-81 | |
Korea - KBL | 04/11 10:00 | 3 | [4] Mobis Phoebus v Goyang Orions [5] | L | 70-78 | |
Korea - KBL | 04/09 05:00 | 3 | [4] Ulsan Phoebus v Goyang Orions [5] | L | 83-87 | |
Korea - KBL | 04/05 10:00 | - | [4] Mobis Phoebus v KCC Egis [9] | W | 89-70 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/27 09:00 | - | [4] Mobis Phoebus v Goyang Orions [5] | L | 71-86 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/26 09:00 | - | [4] Mobis Phoebus v Korea Gas Corporation [6] | L | 65-86 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/23 10:00 | - | [7] Changwon Sakers v Mobis Phoebus [4] | L | 72-65 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/20 09:00 | - | [3] Anyang KGC v Mobis Phoebus [4] | L | 88-84 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/18 10:00 | - | [2] Suwon Sonicboom v Mobis Phoebus [3] | L | 88-69 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/12 09:00 | - | Mobis Phoebus v Dongbu Promy | W | 87-69 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/09 10:00 | - | [1] Seoul Knights v Mobis Phoebus [3] | W | 76-82 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/06 06:00 | - | [10] Seoul Thunders v Mobis Phoebus [3] | W | 78-87 | |
Korea - KBL | 03/05 06:00 | - | [9] KCC Egis v Mobis Phoebus [3] | L | 92-79 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/15 10:00 | - | [3] Mobis Phoebus v Seoul Knights [1] | L | 70-76 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/13 06:00 | - | [4] Anyang KGC v Mobis Phoebus [3] | W | 67-80 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/11 10:00 | - | [2] Suwon Sonicboom v Mobis Phoebus [3] | L | 68-66 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/09 10:00 | - | [10] Seoul Thunders v Mobis Phoebus [3] | W | 69-94 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/06 06:00 | - | [8] Dongbu Promy v Mobis Phoebus [3] | L | 79-68 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/05 06:00 | - | [5] Goyang Orions v Mobis Phoebus [3] | W | 64-68 | |
Korea - KBL | 02/01 06:00 | - | [3] Mobis Phoebus v Korea Gas Corporation [8] | W | 77-68 | |
Korea - KBL | 01/30 06:00 | - | [3] Mobis Phoebus v Changwon Sakers [6] | W | 91-74 | |
Korea - KBL | 01/28 10:00 | - | [3] Mobis Phoebus v KCC Egis [9] | L | 82-88 | |
Korea - KBL | 01/26 10:00 | - | [3] Mobis Phoebus v Dongbu Promy [6] | W | 82-69 | |
Korea - KBL | 01/23 08:00 | - | [4] Mobis Phoebus v Suwon Sonicboom [2] | W | 79-76 | |
Korea - KBL | 01/21 10:00 | - | [4] Mobis Phoebus v Anyang KGC [3] | W | 77-73 |
The Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus is a professional basketball club in the Korean Basketball League.
Before the professional Korean Basketball League was established in 1997, domestic basketball was an amateur sport and teams were sponsored by corporate companies or private universities. Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus traces its origins to the basketball team sponsored by Kia Motors in 1986. The team was based in Busan where Kia Motors had manufacturing operations.
During the amateur era, all teams competed in the National Basketball Festival (농구대잔치). The Kia team dominated the late 1980s, despite being relatively new compared to Samsung Electronic and Hyundai's teams (now Seoul Samsung Thunders and Jeonju KCC Egis, respectively). Their roster at that time consisted of the legendary Chung-Ang University quartet: centers Han Ki-bum and Kim Yoo-taek, all-rounded shooting guard Hur Jae and record-breaking point guard Kang Dong-hee. The "Hur-Dong-Taek Trio" would later be retrospectively dubbed the most formidable offensive unit of the amateur era.
With the founding of the KBL, Kia chose to register its team and joined the league as Busan Kia Enterprise. They won the inaugural KBL Championship. Although they finished the next two seasons as championship runners-up, the team went through a period of upheaval. As with many major corporations, Kia Motors suffered from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which had hit South Korea hard. Kia was bought over by Hyundai Motor Company in 1998 but the basketball team remained solely under Kia and retained the name. The team was unable to go through a generational change due to financial constraints and the aging squad found themselves behind other teams, especially a much younger Daejeon Hyundai Dynat team driven by the likes of Lee Sang-min and Choo Seung-gyun. Han had already retired by then while Hur and Kang both left for other teams for various reasons.
Hyundai then acquired the basketball team prior to the 2001–02 season as it was no longer feasible for Kia to sponsor a sports team. The team moved to its current home city of Ulsan.
The first several seasons after the move were forgettable, as the newly-renamed Ulsan Mobis Automons mostly finished in the bottom half of the league table. Incumbent head coach Yoo Jae-hak, himself a former Kia player during the amateur era, was hired in 2004. At the rookie draft that year, Mobis won the lottery for the first overall pick and Yoo drafted Yang Dong-geun, who would go on to become the team's longest-serving player.