# 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 |
| Group A | Pärnu Sadam | Pärnu, Estonia | Pärnu Sports Hall | Heiko Rannula |
| Group A | Betsafe/Liepāja | Liepāja, Latvia | Liepāja Olympic Center | Agris Galvanovskis |
| Group A | Jūrmala | Jūrmala, Latvia | Jūrmala State Gymnasium | Mārtiņš Gulbis |
| Group A | Šiauliai | Šiauliai, Lithuania | Šiauliai Arena | Antanas Sireika |
| Group A | Vytautas | Prienai/Birštonas, Lithuania | Prienai Arena | Virginijus Šeškus |
| Group A | 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 |
| Group B | TLÜ/Kalev | Tallinn, Estonia | Kalev Sports Hall | Gert Kullamäe |
| Group B | TTÜ | Tallinn, Estonia | TTÜ Sports Hall | Rait Käbin |
| Group B | Valmiera/ORDO | Valmiera, Latvia | Vidzeme Olympic Center | Kristaps Valters |
| Group B | Ogre | Ogre, Latvia | Ogre 1st Secondary School | Arturs Visockis-Rubenis |
| Group B | Pieno žvaigždės | Pasvalys, Lithuania | Pieno žvaigždės Arena | Gediminas Petrauskas |
| Group B | 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 | Not held | Not held | Not held |
| 2016 | Valmiera/ORDO | Ventspils | 66–64 | Valmiera |
| 2017 | Not held | Not held | Not held | 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 (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)