2008–09 LEB season

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2008-09 LEB season
League	Liga Española de Baloncesto
Sport	Basketball
Duration	September 18, 2008-May 15, 2009
Regular season
Season champions	Valladolid
Season MVP	Jakim Donaldson (Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias)
Top scorer	Ricardo Guillén (Villa de Los Barrios)
Play-offs
Final Four champions	Lucentum Alicante
Final Four runners-up	Melilla Baloncesto
LEB Oro seasons
← 2007-08 2009-10 →

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.

LEB Oro Regular season

Pos.	Teams	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Avg	Qualification or relegation
1	CB Valladolid	34	25	9	2700	2476	+224	Promotion to Liga ACB
2	Lucentum Alicante	34	25	9	2742	2441	+301	Promotion playoffs
3	Melilla Baloncesto	34	23	11	2714	2554	+160
4	Leche Río Breogán	34	23	11	2661	2584	+77
5	Tenerife Rural	34	21	13	2879	2760	+119
6	Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	34	19	15	2659	2593	+66
7	CB Villa de Los Barrios ¹	34	18	16	2594	2550	+44
8	Grupo Begar León	34	18	16	2558	2507	+51
9	Ford Burgos	34	18	16	2762	2708	+54
10	Plus Pujol Lleida ²	34	18	16	2715	2698	+17
11	Cáceres 2016	34	15	19	2542	2592	-50
12	CB Vic ³	34	15	19	2578	2664	-86
13	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	34	15	19	2614	2713	-99
14	UB La Palma	34	14	20	2528	2619	-91
15	Mallorca	34	12	22	2751	2913	-162
16	Gandía Bàsquet ⁴	34	11	23	2507	2677	-170
17	Illescas Urban CLM	34	8	26	2386	2623	-237	Relegation to LEB Plata
18	Beirasar Rosalía	34	8	26	2488	2706	-218	Relegation to LEB Plata

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 Alicante	2 - 1	Ford Burgos	89-69	71-75	84-57
Melilla Baloncesto	2 - 0	Grupo Begar Léon	79-56	76-75
Leche Río Breogán	0 - 2	Villa de Los Barrios	81-89	58-76
Tenerife Rural	2 - 0	Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	83-77	67-66

* 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.	Kammron Taylor	Beirasar Rosalía	20	361	18.05
2.	Ricardo Guillén	Villa de Los Barrios	34	605	17.79
3.	Jason Detrick	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	34	601	17.68
4.	Thomas Terrell	La Palma	31	531	17.13
5.	Diego García	Ford Burgos	33	565	17.12

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Jakim Donaldson	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	34	323	9.50
2.	Paulo Prestes	Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	33	309	9.36
3.	Robert Battle	Valladolid	33	289	8.76
4.	Ricardo Guillén	Villa de Los Barrios	34	265	7.79
5.	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	28	205	7.32

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Diego Ciorciari	Melilla Baloncesto	33	201	6.09
2.	Javier Mendiburu	Plus Pujol Lleida	33	154	4.67
3.	Pedro Sala	La Palma	34	141	4.15
4.	Juanjo Jiménez	Illescas Urban CLM	34	129	3.79
5.	Daniel López	Leche Río Breogán	30	113	3.77

MVP Week by Week

Date	Player	Team	Efficiency
1	Eulis Báez Pat Carroll	Grupo Begar León Beirasar Rosalia	30
2	Anthony Stacey Nedžad Sinanović	Grupo Begar León Ford Burgos	30
3	Jakim Donaldson	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	32
4	Antwain Barbour	Tenerife Rural	33
5	Ricardo Guillén	Villa de Los Barrios	28
6	Eulis Báez Juan Riera	Grupo Begar León Mallorca	31
7	Ricardo Guillén	Villa de Los Barrios	51
8	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	31
9	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	41
10	Antwain Barbour	Tenerife Rural	54
11	Jason Blair	Mallorca	30
12	Robert Battle	Valladolid	41
13	Robert Battle	Valladolid	30
14	Vítor Faverani	Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	42
15	Jakim Donaldson	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	39
16	Ricardo Guillén	Villa de Los Barrios	42
17	Wayne Simien	Cáceres 2016	31
18	Paulo Prestes	Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	43
19	Eulis Báez	Grupo Begar León	36
20	Jason Blair Martin Kohlmaier	Mallorca La Palma	26
21	Jakim Donaldson	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	35
22	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	35
23	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	31
24	Juan Riera Michal Chylinski	Mallorca Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	29
25	Jakim Donaldson	Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	37
26	Adrián Boccia	Tenerife Rural	28
27	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	30
28	Diego Guaita	Cáceres 2016	37
29	Brian Cusworth	Leche Río Breogán	32
30	Zach Morley	Gandía	29
31	Matt Kiefer	Vic	37
32	Paulo Prestes	Clínicas Rincón Axarquía	40
33	Charles Ramsdell Jakim Donaldson	Beirasar Rosalía Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias	34
34	Daniel López	Leche Río Breogán	38

External links

Spanish Basketball Federation

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