Baltic Basketball League
Baltic Basketball League 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 | Port of Pärnu | 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 | Ogres 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 |