Baltic Basketball League

Baltic Basketball League (BBL) was the Baltic states basketball league founded in 2004. The league mainly focused on teams from the Baltic states, but teams from Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Finland, and Belarus have participated in the Baltic League. After the 2017–18 season, the league announced that it was suspending its operations.[1]

For women's league, see Baltic Women's Basketball League.
Baltic Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded2004
Ceased2018
No. of teams14
CountryEstonia
Latvia
Lithuania
ContinentEurope
Last
champion(s)		 Pieno žvaigždės
(1st title)
Most titles Žalgiris Kaunas
(5 titles)
TV partner(s)Viasat Sport Baltic
Official websitebbl.net

History

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 did not qualify for the FIBA Europe Cup playoffs and thus started playing at the start of the BBL playoffs, seeded respectively first, second and third based on last season's results.[2] All play-off games are played in home-and-away series.

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

Teams

These are the teams that participated in 2017–18 season:

Group Team City, Country Arena Head coach
Group A AVIS Rapla Rapla, Estonia Sadolin Sports Hall Aivar Kuusmaa
Port of Pärnu Pärnu, Estonia Pärnu Sports Hall Heiko Rannula
Betsafe/Liepāja Liepāja, Latvia Liepāja Olympic Center Agris Galvanovskis
Jūrmala Jūrmala, Latvia Jūrmala State Gymnasium Mārtiņš Gulbis
Šiauliai Šiauliai, Lithuania Šiauliai Arena Antanas Sireika
Vytautas Prienai/Birštonas, Lithuania Prienai Arena Virginijus Šeškus
Tsmoki-Minsk II Minsk, Belarus The team will play away Rostislav Vergun
Group B University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia University of Tartu Sports Hall Priit Vene
TLÜ/Kalev Tallinn, Estonia Kalev Sports Hall Gert Kullamäe
TTÜ Tallinn, Estonia TTÜ Sports Hall Rait Käbin
Valmiera/ORDO Valmiera, Latvia Vidzeme Olympic Center Kristaps Valters
Ogre Ogre, Latvia Ogres 1st Secondary school Arturs Visockis-Rubenis
Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys, Lithuania Pieno žvaigždės Arena Gediminas Petrauskas
Barsy Atyrau Atyrau, Kazakhstan The team will play away Aleksandar Vrzina

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
2016–17 Vytautas Pieno žvaigždės 85–88 89–74 Prienai & Pasvalys
2017–18 Pieno žvaigždės Jūrmala 98–80 76–68 Jūrmala & Pasvalys

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
2017 Not held

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
2016–17 Tomas Delininkaitis Vytautas
2017–18 Jahenns Manigat Pieno žvaigždės

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)
  • 2016–17 Trevin Parks (Barsy Atyrau): 21.57 (in 14 games)
  • 2017–18 Yauheni Beliankou (Tsmoki-Minsk II): 18.40 (in 10 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)
  • 2016–17 Thomas van der Mars (AVIS Rapla): 11.43 (in 14 games)
  • 2017–18 Viktors Iļjins (Valmiera ORDO): 11.00 (in 11 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 Gkikas (Ventspils): 5.88 (in 8 games)
  • 2015–16 Rait-Riivo Laane (TTÜ KK): 6.58 (in 12 games)
  • 2016–17 Toni Prostran (Nevėžis): 9.33 (in 15 games)
  • 2017–18 Donatas Sabeckis (Šiauliai): 6.88 (in 16 games)

See also
  • 2018–19 Estonian–Latvian Basketball League

References
  1. Urbonas, Donatas (13 June 2018). "Merdėjantis BBL turnyras stabdomas, LKL mąsto apie naują lygą". LRT.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  2. "Triobet BBL Play-Off pairs confirmed". Baltic Basketball League. February 3, 2016.
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