LNB Pro B

LNB Pro B

Current season, competition or edition: 2014–15 LNB Pro B season
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1932
No. of teams	18
Country	France
Continent	FIBA Europe
Most recent champion(s)	Boulogne-sur-Mer (1st title)
Related competitions	French Cup Semaine des As Cup
Level on pyramid	2nd Tier (France)
Promotion to	LNB Pro A (1st Tier)
Relegation to	Nationale 1 (3rd Tier)
Official website	www.LNB.fr

The LNB Pro B, full name, Ligue Nationale de Basket Pro B (English: Pro National Basketball League B), is the second-tier men's professional basketball league in France. It is the second division of the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB), which has organized the league since the year 1987. The top two placed teams from each season's Pro B are promoted to the first-tier LNB Pro A (first division).

History

Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB) logo.

Names of the league

• 1932-1949: Honneur (Honor)
• 1950-1963: Excellence
• 1964-1987: Nationale 2 (National 2)
• 1987-1992: Nationale 1B (National 1B)
• 1992-1993: Nationale A2 (National A2)
• 1993–Present: Nationale Pro B (National Pro B)

Format

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 the LNB Pro A (first division), 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
• Angers
• Antibes
• Boulazac
• Charleville-Mézières
• Denain
• Évreux
• Hyères-Toulon
• Le Portel
• Lille
• Monaco
• Nantes
• Orchies
• Poitiers
• Provence
• Roanne
• Saint-Quentin
• Souffelweyersheim

Champions

Most Valuable Players

MVP Awards^[1]

Year	French Player's MVP	Foreign Player's MVP
1992	Patrick Cham (Levallois)	Terence Stansbury (Levallois)
1993	Moustapha Sonko (Sceaux)	Winston Crite (Sceaux)
1994	Bruno Hamm (Strasbourg)	James Banks (Nancy)
1995	Frédéric Hufnagel (La Rochelle)	James Banks (Caen)
1996	Karim Gharbi (Hyères Toulon)	David Booth (Toulouse)
1997	David Condouant (Vichy)	Geoff Lear (Hyères Toulon)
1998	Jimmy Vérove (Brest)	Larry Terry (Mulhouse)
1999	Ahmadou Keita (Strasbourg)	Jarod Stevenson (Strasbourg)
2000	Charles-Henri Grétouce (Bondy)	Elliot Hatcher (Vichy)
2001	Laurent Cazalon (Roanne)	Floyd Miller (Hyères Toulon)
2002	Jean-Philippe Tailleman (Golbey-Epinal)	Rahshon Turner (Vichy)
2003	Cyril Akpomedah (Châlons-en-Champagne)	Mike Jones (Reims / Saint-Quentin)
2004	David Melody (Clermont-Ferrand)	Ondřej Starosta (Saint-Quentin)
2005	Stephen Brun (Brest)	Tyson Patterson (Brest)
2006	Raphaël Desroses (Angers)	Cedrick Banks (Besançon)
2007	Joachim Ekanga-Ehawa (Nanterre)	Jimmal Ball (Vichy)
2008	Adrien Moerman (Nanterre)	Rashaun Freeman (Nantes)
2009	Jimmal Ball (Paris-Levallois)	Errick Craven (Clermont)
2010	Moussa Badiane (Aix-les-Bains)	Teddy Gipson (Pau-Lacq-Orthez)
2011	Philippe da Silva (ALM Évreux)	Nate Carter (JSF Nanterre)
2012	Joseph Gomis (Limoges)	Chris Massie (Limoges)
2013	Mouhammadou Jaiteh (Boulogne-sur-Mer)	Jeremiah Wood (Évreux)
2014	Michel Morandais (Châlons-Reims)	Zachery Peacock (Boulogne-sur-Mer)

Best Coach and Most Improved Player

Year	Best Coach	Most Improved Player
2006	François Peronnet (Châlons-en-Champagne)	–
2007	Olivier Cousin (Quimper)
2008	Michel Veyronnet (Rouen)
2009	Ruddy Nelhomme (Poitiers)
2010	Didier Dobbels (Pau-Lacq-Orthez)
2011	Pascal Donnadieu (JSF Nanterre)
2012	Frédéric Sarre (Limoges)	Ferdinand Prénom (Antibes)
2013	Rémy Valin (Évreux)	Mouhammadou Jaiteh (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
2014	Germain Castano (Boulogne-sur-Mer)	Olivier Romain (Saint-Quentin)

See also

• List of basketball clubs in France

Notes and references

External links

• Official Site (French)
• Eurobasket.com - France

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