Baltic Basketball League

Baltic Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition: 2016–17 Baltic Basketball League

Sport	Basketball
Founded	2004
No. of teams	22
Country	Estonia Latvia Lithuania Kazakhstan Belarus
Continent	Europe
Most recent champion(s)	Šiauliai (3rd title)
Most titles	Žalgiris Kaunas (5 titles)
TV partner(s)	Viasat Sport Baltic
Official website	BBL.net

Baltic Basketball League (BBL) is the Baltic states basketball league founded in 2004.

The league mainly focuses on teams from the Baltic states but teams from Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Finland and most recently from Belarus have participated in the Baltic League.

For the 2015–16 season, the format of the BBL included a regular season composed by two groups of seven teams that competed in a round-robin competition system, with each team facing their opponent twice. The teams qualified for the eight-finals based on their ranking after the regular season. Out of the five teams who participated in FIBA Europe Cup competition – Ventspils, Juventus, Šiauliai, Tartu Ülikool/Rock and Pieno žvaigždės – the latter three didn't qualify for the FIBA Europe Cup playoffs and thus begin their journey at the start of the BBL play-offs, seeded respectively first, second and third based on last season’s results.^[1] All play-off games are played in home-and-away series.

Baltic Basketball League also features a Baltic Basketball League Cup competition before the beginning of the regular season since 2008.

Current teams

These are the teams that are participating in 2016–17 season:

2016–17 Baltic Basketball League
Group	Team	City, Country	Arena	Head coach
Group A	Barsy Atyrau	Atyrau, Kazakhstan	The team will play away	Vinko Bakic
	Liepāja/Triobet	Liepāja, Latvia	Liepāja Olympic Center	Agris Galvanovskis
	Nevėžis	Kėdainiai, Lithuania	Kėdainiai Arena	Paulius Juodis
	AVIS Rapla	Rapla, Estonia	Sadolin Sports Hall	Aivar Kuusmaa
	Jūrmala/Fēnikss	Jūrmala, Latvia	Taurenītis	Arnis Vecvagars
	Barons/Kvartals	Riga, Latvia	Daugava Sport House	Martins Gulbis
	Pärnu Sadam	Pärnu, Estonia	Pärnu Sports Hall	Heiko Rannula
Group B	TTÜ	Tallinn, Estonia	TTÜ Sports Hall	Rait Käbin
	Pieno žvaigždės	Pasvalys, Lithuania	Pieno žvaigždės Arena	Ramūnas Cvirka
	Rakvere Tarvas	Rakvere, Estonia	Rakvere Sports Hall	Andres Sõber
	Valmiera/ORDO	Valmiera, Latvia	Vidzeme Olympic Center	Uvis Helmanis
	Borisfen Mogilev	Mogilev, Belarussia
	Jēkabpils	Jēkabpils, Latvia	Jēkabpils Sporta nams	Rudolfs Rozitis
	Ogre/Kumho Tyre	Ogre, Latvia	Ogres 1st Secondary school	Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis
Playoffs	Šiauliai	Šiauliai, Lithuania	Šiauliai Arena	Gediminas Petrauskas
	University of Tartu	Tartu, Estonia	University of Tartu Sports Hall	Gert Kullamäe
	Ventspils	Ventspils, Latvia	Ventspils Olympic Center	Kārlis Muižnieks
	Vytautas	Prienai/Birštonas, Lithuania	Prienai Arena	Virginijus Šeškus
	Lietkabelis	Panevėžys, Lithuania	Cido Arena	Gintaras Kadžiulis
	Juventus	Utena, Lithuania	Utena's Arena	Antanas Sireika
	Kalev/Cramo	Tallinn, Estonia	Saku Suurhall	Alar Varrak
	TLÜ/Kalev	Tallinn, Estonia	Kalev Sports Hall	Kalle Klandorf

Baltic League Champions

Elite Division Champions

Season	Champion	Runner Up	1st leg	2nd leg	Host City
2004–05	Žalgiris Kaunas	Lietuvos rytas	64–60	–	Vilnius
2005–06	Lietuvos rytas	Žalgiris Kaunas	86–74	–	Tallinn
2006–07	Lietuvos rytas	Žalgiris Kaunas	81–77	–	Rīga
2007–08	Žalgiris Kaunas	Lietuvos rytas	86–84	–	Šiauliai
2008–09	Lietuvos rytas	Žalgiris Kaunas	97–74	–	Tartu
2009–10	Žalgiris Kaunas	Lietuvos rytas	73–66	–	Vilnius
2010–11	Žalgiris Kaunas	VEF Rīga	75–67	–	Kaunas
2011–12	Žalgiris Kaunas	Lietuvos rytas	74–70	–	Šiauliai
2012–13	Ventspils	Prienai	91–69	70–73	Prienai & Ventspils
2013–14	Šiauliai	Prienai	62–57	78–66	Prienai & Šiauliai
2014–15	Šiauliai	Ventspils	68–70	88–80	Ventspils & Šiauliai
2015–16	Šiauliai	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	74–81	102–76	Tartu & Šiauliai

Challenge Cup Champions

Season	Champion	Runner Up	1st leg	2nd leg	Host City
2004–05	Panevėžys	Bumerangs/Gulbene/ASK	87–74	–	Panevėžys
2007–08	Nevėžis	VEF Rīga	81–68	–	Rīga
2008–09	Sakalai	VEF Rīga	84–77	–	Utena
2009–10	Norrköping Dolphins	Rūdupis	77–87	107–72	Prienai & Norrköping
2010–11	Juventus	KK Kaunas	87–81	89–72	Kaunas & Utena
2011–12	Lietkabelis	Rakvere Tarvas	89–74	71–82	Rakvere & Panevėžys

BBL Cup Winners

Season	Winner	Finalist	Score	Host City
2008	Lietuvos rytas	Barons/LMT	80–78	Rīga
2009	Žalgiris Kaunas	Lietuvos rytas	83–78	Kaunas
2010	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	Lietuvos rytas	61–57	Tartu
2011	VEF Rīga	Tartu Ülikool	95–69	Tartu
2012	Rakvere Tarvas	Liepāja/Triobet	80–71	Rakvere
2013	Nevėžis	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	82–64	Kėdainiai
2014	Liepāja/Triobet	Tartu Ülikool/Rock	74–61	Liepāja
2015	Not held
2016	Valmiera/ORDO	Ventspils	66–64	Valmiera

Logos

SEB sponsorship logo (2004–2009)
MasterCard sponsorship logo (2009–2011)
Non commercial logo (2011–2013, 2014–2015)
10th anniversary logo (2013–2014)
Triobet sponsorship logo (2015–present)

Baltic League Awards

Regular Season MVP

Season	Player	Team
2004–05	Tanoka Beard	Žalgiris Kaunas
2005–06	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Žalgiris Kaunas
2006–07	Travis Reed	Kalev/Cramo
2007–08	Vladimir Štimac	Valmiera
2008–09	Paulius Jankūnas	Žalgiris Kaunas
2009–10	Alex Renfroe	VEF Rīga
2010–11	Artsiom Parakhouski	VEF Rīga
2011–12	Valdas Vasylius	Šiauliai
2012–13	Gediminas Orelik	Prienai
2013–14	Travis Leslie	Šiauliai

Finals MVP

Season	Player	Team
2004–05	Tanoka Beard	Žalgiris Kaunas
2005–06	Fred House	Lietuvos rytas
2006–07	Kareem Rush	Lietuvos rytas
2007–08	DeJuan Collins	Žalgiris Kaunas
2008–09	Chuck Eidson	Lietuvos rytas
2009–10	Marcus Brown	Žalgiris Kaunas
2010–11	Tadas Klimavičius	Žalgiris Kaunas
2011–12	Mantas Kalnietis	Žalgiris Kaunas
2012–13	Jānis Timma	Ventspils
2013–14	Travis Leslie	Šiauliai
2014–15	Gintaras Leonavičius	Šiauliai
2015–16	Rokas Giedraitis	Šiauliai

Statistical Leaders

Statistics include regular season and play-off games

Points Per Game

2004–05 Jason Coleman (Liepaja): 25.00 (in 14 games)
2005–06 Akselis Vairogs (Valmiera): 20.90 (in 31 games)
2006–07 Travis Reed (Kalev/Cramo): 19.93 (in 29 games)
2007–08 Travis Reed (Kalev/Cramo): 17.39 (in 18 games)
2008–09 Ingus Bankevics (Valmiera): 19.61 (in 18 games)
2009–10 - Josh Akognon (Kalev/Cramo): 19.53 (in 15 games)
2010–11 Bambale Osby (TTÜ/Kalev): 18.64 (in 22 games)
2011–12 Denzel Bowles (Šiauliai): 19.33 (in 12 games)
2012–13 Reimo Tamm (Rakvere Tarvas): 18.06 (in 18 games)
2013–14 Jānis Kaufmanis (Valmiera): 19.50 (in 14 games)
2014–15 Brandis Raley-Ross (Rakvere Tarvas): 21.18 (in 11 games)
2015–16 Andrew Warren (Pärnu Sadam): 25.57 (in 7 games)

Rebounds Per Game

2004–05 Duke Freeman-McKamey (Panevėžys): 13.22 (in 9 games)
2005–06 Darjuš Lavrinovič (Žalgiris): 9.87 (in 31 games)
2006–07 A. J. Bramlett (ASK Rīga): 8.38 (in 21 games)
2007–08 Vladimir Štimac (Valmiera): 10.95 (in 20 games)
2008–09 Tanoka Beard (Tartu Ülikool/Rock): 9.26 (in 23 games)
2009–10 Alex Renfroe (VEF Rīga): 7.24 (in 21 games)
2010–11 Bambale Osby (TTÜ/Kalev): 11.95 (in 22 games)
2011–12 David James McClure (Kedainiai/Triobet): 9.28 (in 18 games)
2012–13 Tyler Cain (Barons kvartāls): 11.43 (in 14 games)
2013–14 Joakim Kjellbom (Norrköping Dolphins): 9.69 (in 16 games)
2014–15 Ronaldas Rutkauskas (KK Pärnu): 10.44 (in 9 games)
2015–16 Stephan Zack (Liepaja/Triobet): 11.00 (in 12 games)

Assists Per Game

2004–05 Raimonds Gabrāns (Bumerangs/Gulbene/ASK): 6.38 (in 16 games)
2005–06 Raimonds Gabrāns (Bumerangs/Gulbene/ASK): 5.19 (in 32 games)
2006–07 Tomas Gaidamavičius (Panevėžys): 4.58 (in 24 games)
2007–08 Curtis Nash (Valmiera): 4.18 (in 11 games)
2008–09 Giorgi Tsintsadze (Tartu Ülikool/Rock): 5.09 (in 23 games)
2009–10 Charron Fisher (Kalev/Cramo): 8.79 (in 14 games)
2010–11 Evaldas Dainys (Rūdupis): 5.25 (in 16 games)
2011–12 Rashaun Broadus (Šiauliai): 4.39 (in 23 games)
2012–13 Augustas Pečiukevičius (KK Pärnu): 5.71 (in 14 games)
2013–14 Rinalds Sirsniņš (Jēkabpils): 4.83 (in 12 games)
2014–15 Nikos Gikas (Ventspils): 5.88 (in 8 games)
2015–16 Rait-Riivo Laane (TTÜ KK): 6.58 (in 12 games)

References

↑ "Triobet BBL Play-Off pairs confirmed". Baltic Basketball League. February 3, 2016.

External links

Baltic Basketball League seasons

2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

International men's basketball

FIBA National teams Olympics World Cup Universiade U-21 World Championship U-19 World Championship U-17 World Championship World Rankings

Africa	FIBA Africa – AfroBasket U-18 U-16

Americas	FIBA Americas – FIBA Americas Championship U-18 U-16

Asia	FIBA Asia – FIBA Asia Cup U-18 U-16

Europe	FIBA Europe – EuroBasket U-20 U-18 U-16

Oceania	FIBA Oceania – FIBA Oceania Championship U-20 U-18 U-16

Other tournaments	Acropolis Tournament Adecco Cup Albert Schweitzer Tournament African Games Asian Games Commonwealth Games Belgrade Trophy Diamond Ball FIBA Asia Challenge FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament Lusophony Games Marchand Cup Mediterranean Games MVP Cup Stanković Cup Pan American Games Pan Arab Games South American Championship South Asian Games TBF International Under-16 Tournament William Jones Cup World Cup (Turkey)

Note: The Under-21 Championship is no longer held.

Men's professional basketball leagues

International
tournaments

Africa	African Champions Cup

Americas	Americas League Liga Sudamericana Torneo InterLigas

Asia	Asian Champions Cup ABA Club Championship ASEAN League WABA League

Europe	EuroLeague EuroCup Champions League FIBA Europe Cup Adriatic League Alpe Adria Cup Balkan League Baltic League VTB United League Next Generation Tournament

Defunct
tournaments

Americas	Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes Argentina Brazil Chile United States ABA (original) CBA IBL USBL WBA

Asia	Japan bj league NBL NBDL JBL

Europe	SuproLeague Saporta Cup Korać Cup EuroCup Challenge EuroChallenge Central European League North European League Czechoslovakia England Russia Serbia and Montenegro Spain Soviet Union Yugoslavia 2nd division

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