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BBL was established a year ago. Teams from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia participate in this league. When teams from the same country meet in the regular season result is counted into national league standings aswell. So regular season is over and today Final Six starts.
1 Lietuvos Rytas 31 1
2 Zalgiris 31 1
3 Ventspils (Latvia) 25 7
4 Siauliai 24 8
5 Barons (Latvia) 23 9
6 Nevezis 17 15
7 Valmiera (Latvia) 17 15
8 Sakalai 17 15
9 Kalev (Estonia) 15 17
10 Neptunas 12 20
11 Panevezys 12 20
12 Tartu (Estonia) 11 21
13 Liepaja (Latvia) 9 23
14 Nybit (Estonia) 8 24
15 Atletas 8 24
16 Gulbene (Latvia) 7 25
17 Pirita (Estonia) 5 27
Current champions are Zalgiris.
Quarter finals
Ventspils vs Nevezis (the winner will play Zalgiris in semi-final)
Siauliai vs Barons (the winner will play Lietuvos Rytas in semi-final)
All semi-final and final games will be available live on internet.
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Nevezis made a little surprise by beating Latvian champions Ventspils and leaving the in 5th place. Siauliai also defeated Latvian team Barons and made it all-lithuanian semi-finals.
Siauliai 68:57 Barons
Ventspils 71:77 Nevezis
There were no surprises in semi-finals. Both Zalgiris and Lietuvos Rytas blew their opponents.
Lietuvos Rytas 82:58 Siauliai
Zalgiris 91:56 Nevezis
So today 15:15 UK time the big final Zalgiris vs Lietuvos Rytas <!-- s:thup: -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/thup.gif[/img]<!-- s:thup: -->
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Lietuvos Rytas are new champions. They dominated Zalgiris for all the time. If Zalgiris continue their current for then LKL finals might end 4-0.
Lietuvos Rytas 86:74 Zalgiris
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Lietuvos Rytas defended their title yesterday in a final against Ã
½algiris. They got the lead at the start and head +20 lead in the second quarter. ?algiris woke up and started redusing Rytas lead but it was too late. MVP of the final game was Kareem Rush. LKL finals will be very interesting and unpredictable <!-- s:thup: -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/thup.gif[/img]<!-- s:thup: -->
Final
Lietuvos Rytas 81:77 Ã
½algiris
3rd Place Game
Ventspils 94:88 Ã
 iauliai
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Bah. It's really annoying since on my iMac I can't watch these matches due to the site using Window's codecs and such. So I get video but no audio. I have no idea why. I tried to sort it out, but failed.
Anyways, ?algiris seem to be second best to Rytas more often that not, nowadays. Looking forward to next season, though.
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Nah, I've got OS X, not Windows. And the codec used is a Windows one. MPEG-2 or something. I've tried sorting it out, but no luck. (I've got sound on everything else).
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This year BBL is divided into two divisions (Elite Group and Challenge Cup). Standings so far:
Elite Group
1. ASK Riga 8 2
2. Lietuvos Rytas 8 1
3. Ã
 iauliai 7 3
4. Ã
½algiris 8 0
5. Barons/LMT 5 5
6. Valmiera 2 8
7. Ventspils 3 6
8. Rock 2 7
9. Kalev/Cramo 2 6
10. Nept?nas 1 8
Challenge Cup
1. Nev?Ã
¾is 8 3
2. VEF Riga 8 1
3. Alytus 6 4
4. Techasas 6 3
5. Liepajas Lauvas 5 4
6. Ais?iai/Atletas 5 4
7. Sakalai 3 6
8. Arvi/S?duva 4 4
9. Triobet/Dalkia 3 6
10. Fausto 2 7
11. Bumerangs/ASK 0 8 8
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Elite Division
1 Ã
½algiris 10 10
2 Lietuvos rytas 10 9
3 ASK Riga 10 8
4 Ã
 iauliai 11 7
5 Barons-LU 11 5
6 Rock 11 4
7 Ventspils 10 3
8 Kalev/Cramo 10 3
9 Valmiera 11 2
10 Nept?nas 10 1
Challenge Cup
1 Techasas 11 8
2 Nev?Ã
¾is 12 8
3 VEF 9 7
4 Ais?iai-Atletas 11 7
5 Arvi-S?duva 10 6
6 Liepajas lauvas 11 6
7 Alytus 12 6
8 Sakalai 11 4
9 Fausto 11 4
10 Triobet Dalkia 10 3
11 Bumerangs 10 0
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Corey Lavelle Brewer from Zadar signs for ASK Riga.
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Kalev humiliating Zalgiris (no, I didn't mean "getting humiliated by") 58-34 at the end of the 3rd quarter.
Final score 84-57.