In February 2013, former player Pascal Roller and entrepreneur Wolfgang Sahm announced their plans to bring back professional basketball to Hamburg.

The original goal of the club was to obtain a wild card for the first tier Basketball Bundesliga.

In the 2015–16 season, the Towers had the highest average attendance of all ProA clubs with 3,047 per game.

On 30 April 2019, Hamburg Towers promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga for the first time after defeating first-seeded Chemnitz Niners in the playoffs semifinals, and thus reaching the ProA Finals.

Benka Barloschky Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events.