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:

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

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  SEB sponsorship logo (2004–2009)

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  MasterCard sponsorship logo (2009–2011)

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  Non commercial logo (2011–2013, 2014–2015)

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  10th anniversary logo (2013–2014)

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  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

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

External links

• Official website
• Eurobasket.com League Page