Ligue Nationale de Basketball

Ligue Nationale de Basketball
Country	France
Founded	1987
Number of teams	16 (Pro A) 18 (Pro B)
Website	[http://www.LNB.fr Official website]

The LNB (Ligue Nationale de Basketball) is the top men's French professional basketball league. There are two divisions: French Pro A League (first division) and French Pro B League (second division).

Pro A

All 18 Pro A division teams play each other twice during the regular season. At the end of the regular season, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs. The two teams with the worst regular season records are relegated to Pro B. Starting in 2006–07, all rounds except for the finals are best-of-three series (previously, they had been two-legged); the final is a single game played at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris.

Current clubs

• ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
• Basket Club Maritime Gravelines Dunkerque Grand Littoral
• Cholet Basket
• Chorale Roanne Basket
• Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez
• Élan Sportif Chalonnais
• Entente Orléanaise Loiret
• Hyères-Toulon Var Basket
• JDA Dijon
• JSF Nanterre
• Le Mans Sarthe Basket
• Paris-Levallois Basket
• STB Le Havre
• SLUC Nancy
• Strasbourg Illkirch Graffenstaden Basket
• Poitiers Basket 86

Historical players

Ron Anderson Nicolas Batum Jim Bilba Yann Bonato Bruce Bowen Michael Brooks Marcus Brown Don Collins Richard Dacoury Nando de Colo Boris Diaw Alain Digbeu

Hervé Dubuisson Laurent Foirest Ken Gardner Didier Gadou Mickaël Gelabale Ricardo Greer Keith Jennings Cyril Julian Conrad McRae Gheorghe Mureşan Stéphane Ostrowski Tony Parker Mickaël Piétrus

Florent Piétrus Micheal Ray Richardson J.R. Reid Antoine Rigaudeau Stéphane Risacher David Rivers Delaney Rudd Marc Salyers Laurent Sciarra Moustapha Sonko Graylin Warner Frédéric Weis

Michael Young John Linehan

Pro B

All 18 Pro B teams play each other twice during the regular season. The top eight regular season teams qualify for the Pro B playoffs. The regular season and playoff champions are promoted to Pro A while the bottom two regular season teams are relegated to the amateur Nationale 1 league. The quarterfinals and the semifinals are two-legged and the final is a single game.

Current clubs

• Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket
• ALM Évreux Basket
• Boulazac Basket Dordogne
• Champagne Châlons-Reims Basket
• CSP Limoges
• Étoile Sportive Saint-Michel Le Portel Côte d'Opale
• Fos Ouest Provence Basket
• Hermine de Nantes Atlantique
• JA Vichy
• Jeunesse Laïque de Bourg-en-Bresse
• JSA Bordeaux Basket
• Lille Métropole Basket Clubs
• Olympique Antibes/Juan-les-Pins/Côte d'Azur Basket
• Saint-Étienne Basket
• Saint-Vallier Basket Drôme
• Spes Philippin Omnisports Rouen Basket
• Stade Olympique Maritime Boulonnais
• UJAP Quimper

LNB champions

Season	Team
1987–88	Limoges
1988–89	Limoges
1989–90	Limoges
1990–91	Olympique Antibes
1991–92	Pau-Orthez
1992–93	Limoges
1993–94	Limoges
1994–95	Olympique Antibes
1995–96	Pau-Orthez
1996–97	Racing Paris
1997–98	Pau-Orthez
1998–99	Pau-Orthez
1999–00	Limoges
2000–01	Pau-Orthez
2001–02	ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
2002–03	Pau-Orthez
2003–04	Pau-Orthez
2004–05	Strasbourg
2005–06	Le Mans
2006–07	Roanne
2007–08	Nancy
2008–09	ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
2009–10	Cholet Basket
2010–11	Nancy

Performance by club

Club	Champions	Winning years
Pau-Orthez	7	1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004
Limoges	6	1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2000
Olympique Antibes	2	1991, 1995
ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne	2	2002, 2009
Nancy	2	2008, 2011
Racing Paris	1	1997
Strasbourg	1	2005
Le Mans	1	2006
Roanne	1	2007
Cholet	1	2010

See also

• List of basketball clubs in France
• Ligue Nationale de Basketball 2010–11

External links

• Official Site

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