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2011–12 Basketball League Belgium Division I
The 2011–12 Basketball League Belgium Division I, for sponsorships reasons named 2011–12 Ethias League, was the 84th season of the Ethias League, the top tier basketball in Belgium. The season started on October 4, 2011, and finished in May 2012. Telenet BC Oostende took the title after beating Belgacom Spirou in five games. Teams * Belgacom Liège Basket * Belgacom Spirou Basket *Dexia Mons-Hainaut * Generali Okapi Aalstar * Optima Gent *Port of Antwerp Giants * Stella Artois Leuven Bears * Telenet BC Oostende * VOO Verviers-Pepinster Regular season Playoffs Awards ;Most Valuable Player * Christopher Copeland (Okapi Aalstar) ;Coach of the Year * Bradley Dean ( Generali Okapi Aalstar) ; Most Promising Player * Jean-Marc Mwema ( Antwerp Giants) ; Star of the Coaches * Christopher Copeland ( Generali Okapi Aalstar) ; Belgian Player of the Year * Jorn Steinbach Jorn Steinbach (born 20 January 1989) is a former Belgian professional basketball player. Profes ...
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2010–11 Basketball League Belgium Division I
The 2010–11 Basketball League Belgium Division I, for sponsorship reasons named 2010–11 Ethias League, was the 83rd season of the Basketball League Belgium, the highest professional basketball league in Belgium. Spirou Charleroi Spirou Charleroi, commonly known simply as Spirou, is a Belgian professional basketball club that is located in Charleroi. The club competes in the BNXT League, the highest tier of basketball in Belgium. The club's home arena is the Spiroudome whi ... won the 2011 national title. Regular season Playoffs References {{DEFAULTSORT:2010-11 Ethias League Basketball League Belgium Division I seasons Belgian Lea ...
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Optima Gent
Gent Hawks, for sponsorship reasons Wanty Gent Hawks, is a Belgian professional basketball club that is located in the Gent area of the Province of East-Flanders, Belgium. The club competes in the second basketball division in Belgium. The team was founded in 1950. The team plays home games at the 2,374 seat Tolhuis. The club has played in the Belgian highest division since 2007. The season before, they became champion in the second division. Names Season by season Honors and titles Domestic competitions Belgian League: *Champions (1): 1955 Belgian Cup: *Winners (1): 1992 Belgian 2nd Division: *Champions (2): 2007, 2017 European competitions * 1991–92 FIBA Korać Cup First round Second round Round of 16 Group A Group B Group C Group D Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Korac Cup 1991–92 1991–92 ...: Second Round External links Basketball teams i ...
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Belgian Player Of The Year (basketball)
The Belgian Prayer of the Year (''Belgische Speler van het Jaar'' in Dutch) is an annual Basketball League Belgium Division I award given to the best player with a Belgian nationality. The award is organised by the Belgian newspaper '' Het Nieuwsblad''. Winners Awards by player Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Star of the Coaches Player Of The Year Several sports leagues honour their best player with an award called Player of the Year (POY) . In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award. Association football In association football, this award is he ...
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Ethias League Star Of The Coaches
The Pro Basketball League (PBL) Star of the Coaches (''Ster van de Coaches'' in Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...) was an annual Pro Basketball League award given to the player who got the most votes for being the league's best player from coaches in the league. The award was discontinued in 2018, when it was decided that coaches' votes would contribute to elect the season MVP, and no longer used for a separate award. Winners Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Star of the Coaches Basketball League Belgium Division I awards ...
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Jean-Marc Mwema
Jean-Marc Mwema (born 5 December 1989) is a Belgian-Congolese professional basketball player for Telenet Giants Antwerp of the BNXT League. He also represents the Belgian national basketball team. Professional career Mwema played a long time for Antwerp Giants, as he played in Antwerp from 2009 until 2016. In the 2011–12 season, Mwema was named the BLB Most Promising Player. In December 2016, Mwema signed a contract with Telenet Oostende. On 19 February 2017, marked the first time Mwema won a title with his team when he won the Belgian Cup. Mwema signed a one-year extension with the team on July 28, 2020. In his five seasons with Oostende, he won the Pro Basketball League (PBL) five consecutive times. On 5 August 2021, Mwema returned to Antwerp Giants for a second stint, signing a contract for three seasons. International career He represented Belgium at the EuroBasket 2015, where the team was eliminated in the Round of 16 after a 75–54 loss to Greece. Honours ;Oostende *P ...
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Ethias League Most Promising Player Of The Year
The Pro Basketball League (PBL) Rising Star is an annual Pro Basketball League (PBL) award given to the best young player in the top tier domestic basketball league in Belgium. Formerly, the award was named the PBL Most Promising Player of the Year. Maxime De Zeeuw Maxime De Zeeuw (born 26 April 1987) is a Belgian professional basketball player for Limburg United of the BNXT League. De Zeeuw usually plays at the power forward position. He has also been a member of the Belgian national basketball team, whom ... was the inaugural winner in 2009. Winners Awards by club Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Most Promising Player of the Year Pro Basketball League awards ...
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Bradley Dean
Bradley Dean (born June 18, 1970) is an American stage and screen actor. Early life Dean is originally from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Career Theatre Broadway theatre Dean made his Broadway debut as a swing in ''Jane Eyre'' in 2000. Additional Broadway credits include ''Man of La Mancha'', ''Company'', and ''The Story of My Life''. On March 25, 2008, Dean succeeded Christopher Sieber in the role of Sir Galahad in the musical comedy ''Spamalot'' on Broadway. From December 2009 until January 2011, Dean starred in the revival of ''A Little Night Music'', first as Frid, and then later as Count Carl-Magnus opposite Bernadette Peters. Dean has also had roles in the Broadway productions of the 2012 ''Evita'' revival, Sting's '' The Last Ship'', and ''Doctor Zhivago'', where he stepped in as the lead for several performances during previews while principal lead Tam Mutu was ill. He was also a standby for the role of Larry Murphy in ''Dear ...
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Ethias League Coach Of The Year
The Basketball League Belgium Division I Coach of the Year (''Coach van het Jaar'' in Dutch) is an annual Basketball League Belgium Division I award given to the best coach of the league. The award is handed out after the end of the regular season. Winners Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Star of the Coaches Coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co ...
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Okapi Aalstar
Okapi Aalst is a Belgian professional basketball club from Aalst, Belgium. The club competes in the top tier BNXT League and plays its home games in the Okapi Forum, which has a seating capacity of 2,800 people. Okapi is a long-time participant of the Belgian first division, is the owner of one Belgian Cup and two Supercups. As well, Aalst was a regular participant in European competitions in the past. In its history the team has included many quality players who would be named Belgian League MVP or have played for top Euroleague and NBA teams, such as Chris Copeland and Matt Lojeski. History Okapi was founded on 15 November 1949 by a group of friends in Aalst, almost all going to the school named Aalsterse Athenuem. Piet de Coninck van Noyen was one of the founders. In 1956, Odilon Ringoir became the first chairman of the club. In 1957, the municipality of Aalst allowed the team to play outside at the Hopmarkt and as a result more spectators watched the team's matches. In the ...
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Christopher Copeland
Christopher Stephen Copeland (born March 17, 1984) nicknamed "The X-Factor" is an American former professional basketball player who last played for MoraBanc Andorra of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the University of Colorado Boulder from 2002 until 2006. Early life Copeland was born in Orange, New Jersey to mother, Terry, in 1984. With his father absent from his life from birth, Copeland always looked up to his older brother, Vincent Alphaquan, a basketball standout at Seton Hall Prep and Columbus High School in New York before he played at Jackson State. At age 4, he established a practice routine with Vincent as his coach, honing his game with various dribbling drills in a narrow alleyway next to their house. He continued with the regimen through childhood at Elmwood Park under Vincent's guidance. This all changed in May 1997 when Vincent slipped into a coma after a drunk driver struck him in a hit-and-run accident on Central Avenue in East Orange, just a few ...
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Ethias League MVP
The Pro Basketball League MVP is an annual award of the Pro Basketball League (PBL), the highest tier professional basketball league in Belgium, given since the 2000–01 season, to the league's most valuable player in the regular season. Winners References ;General * ;Specific {{Ethias League MVP In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ... Basketball most valuable player awards European basketball awards ...
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Leuven Bears
Leuven Bears, for sponsorship reasons also called Stella Artois Leuven Bears, is a Belgian professional basketball club from Leuven. The club competes in the BNXT League, the highest tier in Belgian basketball. History The team has played in the Belgian First Division since 1999 and has participated in the Belgian Cup since 1954, winning the tournament in 2005. The Belgian Cup victory earned the team a place in the 2005–06 FIBA EuroCup where it finished fourth in its opening-round group and was eliminated. Since the 2021–22 season, Leuven plays in the BNXT League, in which the national leagues of Belgium and the Netherlands have been merged. Honours and titles *Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de Belgique; nl, Beker van België []; german: link=no, Belgischer Fußballpokal) is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgia ... **Winners (1): 2004–05 Season by season Playe ...
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