Sport Basketball No. of teams 18 Continent FIBA Europe | Founded 1932 Country France | |
Most recent
champion(s) Hyères-Toulon Var Basket
(1st title) | ||
The LNB Pro B, full name, Ligue Nationale de Basket Pro B (English: Pro National Basketball League B), is the 2nd-tier level 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 top-tier level LNB Pro A (first division).
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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 top-tier LNB Pro A (first division), while the bottom two regular season teams are relegated to the 3rd-tier Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1) league. The quarterfinals and the semifinals are two-legged, and the final is a single game.