The Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (abbreviated LNB, and literally in English, "National Basketball League"), also commonly referred to as "La Liga de Básquet" ("The Basketball League"), is the top-tier level of the Argentine basketball league system. The league is under the auspices of the Basketball Clubs' Association (in Spanish: Asociación de Clubes de Básquetbol). The LNB's predecessor league is the now defunct Campeonato Argentino de Clubes, which was organized by the Argentine Basketball Confederation.

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Liga Nacional de Básquetbol

Organising body	Asociación de Clubes de Básquetbol
Founded	1985; 39 years ago (1985) by León Najnudel
Country	Argentina
Number of teams	20
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	La Liga Argentina
International cup(s)	Champions League Americas
Current champions	Quimsa (2nd title) (2022–23)
Most championships	Atenas (9 titles)
Most appearances	Leonardo Gutiérrez (1,106) [1]
All-time top scorer	Héctor Campana (17,359) [1][2]
President	Fabián Borro
TV partners	TyC Sports DirecTV
Website	laliganacional.com.ar
2023–24

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The league was created through the efforts of basketball coach León Najnudel, and sports journalist Osvaldo Orcasitas, in the 1980s, to make Argentine men's club basketball more competitive, through the merging of the many existing local leagues.^[3] It is designed like the NBA, with a regular season, all-star game, and playoffs. However, unlike the NBA, the LNB has a promotion and relegation system, with the La Liga Argentina (LLA), the league level that is immediately below the LNB.

A tribute to Najnudel's vision, is the string of successes of the senior men's Argentine national basketball team, culminating with the team's Summer Olympic Games gold medal won at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the international careers of many players who started in the league.

Following a system similar to the European basketball leagues, the Liga Nacional features promotion and relegation. Contested by 20 teams, the top division is divided in two stages: the first one consists of a double round-robin competition, with standings decided by a points system. At the end of the season, teams placed 1st to 16th advance to the playoffs, while the last 2 teams play a series to avoid relegation.

The playoffs stage is divided in four parts, where winning teams qualify to the next stage while defeated teams retire from the tournament. The successive stages are quarter finals, semi-finals and the finals. Quarter and semi-finals are played in a 2-2-1 format (best-of-five) while finals are played in a 2-2-1-1-1 format, which rounds are best-of-seven series.

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These are the yearly individual awards are given by the league as a recognition to the most valuable player (in both, regular season and finals) and the top scorer. Leonardo Gutiérrez was chosen finals MVP a record of 4 times, while Joe Bunn is the most times top scorer (5 seasons).

As of September 2019, 17 players have their jerseys retired. Atenas was the team which started this practice (in 2002, with legendary Marcelo Milanesio's #9).^[9][10][11]

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N°	Club	Player	Pos.	Tenure	No. ret. year	Ref.
4	Quilmes (MdP)	Eduardo Dominé	SG	1990, 1991–2001	2009	[11]
5	Atenas	Héctor Campana	SG	1987–88, 1991–92, 1996–2000, 2002–04	2005	[10][12]
5	Estudiantes (BB)[n 1]	Hernán Jasen	SF	1996–99, 2012–18	2018	[13]
7	Quilmes (MdP)	Esteban De la Fuente	SG/SF	1991–93, 1995–97, 2004–05	2013	[11]
7	Atenas	Bruno Lábaque	PG	1994–2003, 2006–09, 2010–17	2017	[14]
7	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CR)	Pablo Moldú	SG	1994–2006	2019	[15][16]
7	Quimsa	Nicolás Aguirre	PG	2011–13, 2014–15	2019	[17]
8	Peñarol (MdP)	Tato Rodríguez	PG	1994–1998, 1999–2003, 2004–2011	2011	[18][19]
8	Quilmes (MdP)	Guillermo García Oyaga		1970s–80s [11]	2013	[11]
8	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CR)	Gabriel Cocha	SG	1991–92, 1994–98, 2003–07	2019	[15][16]
8	Quimsa	Fernando Small	?	1998–2004, 2005–08	2019	[17][20]
9	Atenas	Marcelo Milanesio	PG	1982–2002	2002	[10]
10	Estudiantes (BB)[n 1]	Juan Espil	SG/SF	1988–1992, 2010–12	2013	[21][22]
11	Atenas	Diego Osella	C	1988–1992, 1993–2001, 2003–2010	2011	[23][24][25]
11	Quimsa	Miguel Cortijo	PG	1998–2000	?	[11][26]
14	Estudiantes (BB)[n 1]	Alberto Cabrera [n 2]	PG	1961–1984	2004	[27][28]
14	Quimsa	Gabriel Deck	SF	2010–16	2019	[17]

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