2008–09 ACB season

2008-09 ACB season
2008-09 ACB season
League	Liga ACB
Sport	Basketball
Duration	October 4, 2008 - May 10, 2009
Number of games	256 (regular season); 19 (playoffs)
Number of teams	17
TV partner(s)	Televisión Española
Regular Season
Season champions	TAU Cerámica
Season MVP	Felipe Reyes (Real Madrid)
Top scorer	Igor Rakočević (TAU Cerámica)
Playoffs
ACB Finals
Champions	FC Barcelona
Finals MVP	Juan Carlos Navarro
ACB seasons
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 ACB season is the 26th season of the Liga ACB. The 272-game regular season (16 home games for each of the 17 teams) began on Saturday, October 4, 2008, and ended on Sunday, May 10, 2009.^[1] The top four teams earned berths in the Euroleague competition for 2009–10, the international basketball competition for European professional teams.

Team standings

	Direct access to Euroleague 2009–10
	Clinched playoff berth
	Eliminated from playoffs contention
	Relegated

Team standings after 34 games.^[2]

#	Teams	GP	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1	Tau Cerámica	32	28	4	2865	2464	+401
2	Regal Barcelona	32	26	6	2601	2278	+323
3	Unicaja	32	24	8	2668	2325	+343
4	Real Madrid	32	23	9	2690	2528	+162
5	DKV Joventut	32	22	10	2647	2525	+122
6	Kalise Gran Canaria	32	20	12	2566	2487	+79
7	Pamesa Valencia	32	16	16	2452	2416	+36
8	iurbentia Bilbao	32	15	17	2451	2492	-41
9	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada	32	15	17	2669	2639	+30
10	Ricoh Manresa	32	14	18	2382	2503	-121
11	CB Granada	32	12	20	2369	2516	-147
12	Bruesa GBC	32	11	21	2448	2589	-141
13	MMT Estudiantes	32	11	21	2473	2586	-113
14	Cajasol	32	10	22	2429	2641	-212
15	CB Murcia	32	9	23	2347	2636	-289
16	ViveMenorca	32	8	24	2281	2481	-200
17	CAI Zaragoza	32	8	24	2383	2615	-232

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Playoffs

Stats leaders

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Points

Rank	Name	Team	PPG
1.	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica	19.4
2.	Brad Oleson	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada	18.0
3.	Paolo Quinteros	CAI Zaragoza	17.4
4.	Taquan Dean	CB Murcia	16.7
5.	Pooh Jeter	ViveMenorca	16.3

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	RPG
1.	Curtis Borchardt	CB Granada	9.9
2.	Felipe Reyes	Real Madrid	8.9
3.	Nik Caner-Medley	Cajasol Sevilla	8.0
4.	Andrew Panko	Bruesa GBC	6.8
5.	Ersan İlyasova	Regal Barcelona	6.8

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	APG
1.	Javier Rodríguez	Ricoh Manresa	6.1
2.	Ricky Rubio	DKV Joventut	5.8
3.	Chris Thomas	CB Murcia	5.0
4.	Kristaps Valters	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada	4.8
5.	Pablo Prigioni	TAU Cerámica	4.7

Awards

Regular Season MVP

Felipe Reyes^[4] - Real Madrid

Best Defensive Player

Ricky Rubio – DKV Joventut

MVP Week by Week

Date	Player	Team	Efficiency
1	Saúl Blanco	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada	33
2	Brad Oleson	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada (2)	39
3	Felipe Reyes	Real Madrid	40
4	Andrea Pecile	Cajasol	26
5	Felipe Reyes (2)	Real Madrid (2)	34
6	Tom Wideman	MMT Estudiantes	29
7	Chris Thomas	CB Murcia	32
8	Marcus Haislip	Unicaja	31
9	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica	33
10	Igor Rakočević (2)	Tau Cerámica (2)	32
11	Tiago Splitter Saúl Blanco (2)	Tau Cerámica (3) Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada (3)	33
12	Pooh Jeter	ViveMenorca	31
13	Curtis Borchardt	CB Granada	35
14	Curtis Borchardt (2)	CB Granada (2)	41
15	Felipe Reyes (3) Fran Vázquez	Real Madrid (3) Regal Barcelona	32
16	Carl English	Kalise Gran Canaria	37
17	Paolo Quinteros	CAI Zaragoza	33
18	Brad Oleson (2) Curtis Borchardt (3)	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada (4) CB Granada (3)	32
19	Tiago Splitter (2)	Tau Cerámica (4)	36
20	Igor Rakočević (3)	Tau Cerámica (5)	39
21	Curtis Borchardt (4)	CB Granada (4)	41
22	Pete Mickeal	Tau Cerámica (6)	28
23	Marcus Haislip (2) Brad Oleson (3)	Unicaja (2) Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada (5)	33
24	Lamont Barnes	CB Murcia (2)	31
25	Axel Hervelle	Real Madrid (4)	36
26	Fran Vázquez (2)	Regal Barcelona (2)	36
27	Fran Vázquez (3)	Regal Barcelona (3)	45
28	Clay Tucker	Cajasol (2)	39
29	Felipe Reyes (4)	Real Madrid (5)	34
30	Boniface N'Dong	Unicaja (3)	31
31	Jimmie Hunter	CB Granada (5)	34
32	Jimmie Hunter (2)	CB Granada (6)	41
33	Jérôme Moïso	DKV Joventut	38
34	Guillem Rubio	Ricoh Manresa	35

MVP Month by Month

Month	Player	Team	Efficiency
October	Felipe Reyes	Real Madrid	30,8
November	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica	26,2
December	Curtis Borchardt	CB Granada	34,3
January	Carl English	Kalise Gran Canaria	24,3
February	Brad Oleson	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada	30,5
March	Fran Vázquez	Regal Barcelona	28,75
April	Jimmie Hunter	CB Granada (2)	21,2

All-ACB Team

Position	Player	Team
PG	Pablo Prigioni	Tau Cerámica
SG	Igor Rakočević	Tau Cerámica
SF	Juan Carlos Navarro	Regal Barcelona
C	Fran Vázquez	Regal Barcelona
C	Felipe Reyes	Real Madrid

References

^ "ACB Calendar". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
^ "ACB.COM". Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
^ "Basketball News, Scores, Stats, Analysis, Standings". Archived from the original on July 24, 2009.
^ Felipe Reyes, MVP de la temporada 2008-09 ACB.com Archived 2017-11-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

External links

ACB.com (in Spanish)
linguasport.com (in Spanish)

[acbcom-1] "ACB Calendar". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2008-12-15.

[2] "ACB.COM". Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2008-12-17.

[3] "Basketball News, Scores, Stats, Analysis, Standings". Archived from the original on July 24, 2009.

[4] Felipe Reyes, MVP de la temporada 2008-09 ACB.com Archived 2017-11-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

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