2008–09 LEB Oro season

The 2008–09 LEB season is the 13th season of the Liga Española de Baloncesto. The 612-game regular season (34 games for each of the 18 teams) began on Thursday, September 18, 2008, and will end on Friday, May 15, 2009. The champion of the regular season will be promoted to ACB. The teams between 2nd and 9th position will play a best of 3 games play off to see who plays the Final Four. Two bottom teams will be relegated to LEB Plata.

2008-09 LEB season
LeagueLiga Española de Baloncesto
SportBasketball
DurationSeptember 18, 2008-May 15, 2009
Regular season
Season championsValladolid
Season MVPUnited States Jakim Donaldson (Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias)
Top scorerSpain Ricardo Guillén (Villa de Los Barrios)
Play-offs
Final Four championsLucentum Alicante
  Final Four runners-upMelilla Baloncesto

LEB Oro Regular season

Pos.TeamsPldWLPFPAAvgQualification or relegation
1CB Valladolid3425927002476+224Promotion to Liga ACB
2Lucentum Alicante3425927422441+301Promotion playoffs
3Melilla Baloncesto34231127142554+160
4Leche Río Breogán34231126612584+77
5Tenerife Rural34211328792760+119
6Clínicas Rincón Axarquía34191526592593+66
7CB Villa de Los Barrios 134181625942550+44
8Grupo Begar León34181625582507+51
9Ford Burgos34181627622708+54
10Plus Pujol Lleida 234181627152698+17
11Cáceres 201634151925422592-50
12CB Vic 334151925782664-86
13Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias34151926142713-99
14UB La Palma34142025282619-91
15Mallorca34122227512913-162
16Gandía Bàsquet 434112325072677-170
17Illescas Urban CLM3482623862623-237Relegation to LEB Plata
18Beirasar Rosalía3482624882706-218

1 CB Villa de Los Barrios relegated due economic problems.
2 Plus Pujol Lleida relegated to Liga EBA due economic problems.
3 CB Vic relegated due economic problems and sold its berth to CB Sant Josep Girona.
4 Gandía Bàsquet relegated to Liga EBA due economic problems.

LEB Oro playoffs

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between teams in the 2-9 positions, with the best-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on May 19, 2009, and all second games were played on May 22. The deciding third games were played on May 24.

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg*
Lucentum Alicante2 - 1Ford Burgos89-6971-7584-57
Melilla Baloncesto2 - 0Grupo Begar Léon79-5676-75
Leche Río Breogán0 - 2Villa de Los Barrios81-8958-76
Tenerife Rural2 - 0Clínicas Rincón Axarquía83-7767-66

* if necessary

Final Four

The Final Four is the last phase of the LEB Oro season, and is held over a weekend in Fuenlabrada. The semifinal games are played on May 30. The championship final is played on May 31.

Semifinals Finals
      
2 Lucentum Alicante 84
7 Villa de Los Barrios 81
2 Lucentum Alicante 72
3 Melilla Baloncesto 66
3 Melilla Baloncesto 91
5 Tenerife Rural 87

Stats Leaders

Points

Rank Name Team Games Points PPG
1.United States Kammron TaylorBeirasar Rosalía2036118.05
2.Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios3460517.79
3.United States Jason DetrickCiudad de La Laguna Canarias3460117.68
4.United States Thomas TerrellLa Palma3153117.13
5.Argentina Diego GarcíaFord Burgos3356517.12

Rebounds

Rank Name Team Games Rebounds RPG
1.United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias343239.50
2.Brazil Paulo PrestesClínicas Rincón Axarquía333099.36
3.United States Robert BattleValladolid332898.76
4.Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios342657.79
5.United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán282057.32

Assists

Rank Name Team Games Assists APG
1.Argentina Diego CiorciariMelilla Baloncesto332016.09
2.Spain Javier MendiburuPlus Pujol Lleida331544.67
3.Spain Pedro SalaLa Palma341414.15
4.Spain Juanjo JiménezIllescas Urban CLM341293.79
5.Spain Daniel LópezLeche Río Breogán301133.77

MVP Week by Week

Date Player Team Efficiency
1Dominican Republic Eulis Báez
United States Pat Carroll
Grupo Begar León
Beirasar Rosalia
30
2United States Anthony Stacey
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nedžad Sinanović
Grupo Begar León
Ford Burgos
30
3United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias32
4Lebanon Antwain BarbourTenerife Rural33
5Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios28
6Dominican Republic Eulis Báez
Spain Juan Riera
Grupo Begar León
Mallorca
31
7Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios51
8United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán31
9United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán41
10Lebanon Antwain BarbourTenerife Rural54
11United States Jason BlairMallorca30
12United States Robert BattleValladolid41
13United States Robert BattleValladolid30
14Brazil Vítor FaveraniClínicas Rincón Axarquía42
15United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias39
16Spain Ricardo GuillénVilla de Los Barrios42
17United States Wayne SimienCáceres 201631
18Brazil Paulo PrestesClínicas Rincón Axarquía43
19Dominican Republic Eulis BáezGrupo Begar León36
20United States Jason Blair
Austria Martin Kohlmaier
Mallorca
La Palma
26
21United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias35
22United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán35
23United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán31
24Spain Juan Riera
Poland Michal Chylinski
Mallorca
Clínicas Rincón Axarquía
29
25United States Jakim DonaldsonCiudad de La Laguna Canarias37
26Argentina Adrián BocciaTenerife Rural28
27United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán30
28Argentina Diego GuaitaCáceres 201637
29United States Brian CusworthLeche Río Breogán32
30United States Zach MorleyGandía29
31United States Matt KieferVic37
32Brazil Paulo PrestesClínicas Rincón Axarquía40
33United States Charles Ramsdell
United States Jakim Donaldson
Beirasar Rosalía
Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias
34
34Spain Daniel LópezLeche Río Breogán38
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