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.

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. 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 Pärnu Sadam 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 Ogre 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 2015Not held 2016 Valmiera/ORDO Ventspils 66–64 Valmiera 2017Not held

Baltic League awards Regular season MVP SeasonPlayerTeam 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 SeasonPlayerTeam 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 (neptunas): 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 Baltic Basketball All-Star Game Latvian-Estonian Basketball League Latvian Basketball League Estonian Basketball League Lithuanian Basketball League

References

External links

Eurobasket.com League Page