Baltic Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition: 2016–17 Baltic Basketball League
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| Sport | Basketball |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| No. of teams | 22 |
| Country |
 Estonia Latvia Lithuania Kazakhstan Belarus
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| 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. 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.
These are the teams that are participating in 2016–17 season:
SEB sponsorship logo (2004–2009)
MasterCard sponsorship logo (2009–2011)
Non commercial logo (2011–2013, 2014–2015)
10th anniversary logo (2013–2014)
Triobet sponsorship logo (2015–present)
Statistics include regular season and play-off games
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