Sport Basketball No. of teams 10 Headquarters Mexico City, Mexico | Director Sergio Ganem Velázquez Country Mexico | |
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Founded March 11, 2000; 17 years ago (2000-03-11) | ||
The Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP) is the top professional basketball league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 11 teams. Despite its short history, the LNBP has established itself as the most important basketball league in Latin America.
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Famous basketball players who have played in the league include Jamario Moon, Dennis Rodman, Sun Mingming, Horacio Llamas and many others.
Foundation
On March 11, 2000 the league was founded in the city of Durango with 11 teams participating. The LNBP set out to support and develop professional basketball in Mexico.
Regular season
The regular season is played in round-robin format in which the 12 best-placed teams qualify to the postseason. For every game won 2 points are added and for every game lost one point is added. For example: If team one played 10 games and won 7, losing the remaining 3, it would have 17 points; 14 points for the 7 games won and 3 points for the games lost.
Playoffs
The four top-seeded teams have a bye in the first playoff series while the five to twelve seeds play each other. The 5th-placed team plays the 12th-place team while the 6th plays the 11th and the 7th plays the 10th and so on. The quarter-finals see the top seed playing the worst-qualified seed and the second-best team playing the second-worst team and so on. The semi-finals are played like the quarterfinals while the Serie Final is played by the two teams remaining with the best-placed team having home field advantage.
Copa Independencia winners
The Copa Independencia (Independence Cup) was a pre-season tournament created by the LNBP.