2008–09 LEB Oro season

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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.

2008-09 LEB season
LeagueLiga Española de Baloncesto
SportBasketball
DurationSeptember 18, 2008-May 15, 2009
Regular season
Season championsValladolid
Season MVPUnited States Jakim Donaldson (Ciudad de La Laguna Canarias)
Top scorerSpain Ricardo Guillén (Villa de Los Barrios)
Play-offs
Final Four championsLucentum Alicante
  Final Four runners-upMelilla Baloncesto
LEB Oro seasons
← 2007-08
2009-10 →

LEB Oro Regular season

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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

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

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Quarterfinals

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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

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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

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Points

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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

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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

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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

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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
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