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Basketball is the second most popular sport in Spain, directly behind association football. The top Spanish League, Liga ACB , is a member of ULEB , and the top Spanish League teams can compete in Europe, most notably in the Euroleague and Eurocup , and also under the FIBA Europe umbrella, in the FIBA Europe Cup .
The Spanish Basketball Federation (Spanish: Federación Española de Baloncesto; FEB) is the governing body of basketball in Spain. Based in Madrid , it was founded on 31 July 1923 in Barcelona , Spain.
ACB Most Valuable Player is an annual award of the Liga ACB, the top-tier professional basketball league in Spain. The ACB handed out the award first after the 1991–92 ACB season. Since then, four players have won the award more than once: Darryl Middleton (3-time winner), Arvydas Sabonis, Tanoka Beard, and Luis Scola (2-time winners).
The Liga ACB, [a] known as Liga Endesa [b] for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system.Administered by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, with the two lowest-placed teams relegated to the Primera FEB and replaced by the top team in that division plus the winner of the promotion playoffs.
The Spanish basketball league system is a series of connected competitions for professional basketball clubs in Spain. [1] The system has a hierarchical format with a promotion and relegation system between competitions at different levels.
The Tercera FEB, formerly known as Liga EBA (Liga Española de Baloncesto Aficionado), is a Spanish basketball championship that is the fourth tier level in the Spanish basketball league system, after the Liga ACB, Primera FEB and Segunda FEB. It is administered by the FEB. It was previously the Spanish second tier level competition from 1994 ...
When Spain qualified for the 1936 Summer Olympics, where basketball was part of the games for the first time, expectations were high for the runners-up of the 1935 EuroBasket. Unfortunately, as one of the favorites to win medals, Spain could not attend the Games due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War just days before the start of the event.
In the following years, Barcelona would stay on top of Spanish basketball, playing almost all league and cup finals against rival Real Madrid. From 2012 until 2014, Barcelona managed to reach the Euroleague Final Four .