The 2012–13 LNB Pro A season was the 91st season of the French Basketball Championship and the 26th season since inception of the

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. The regular season started on October 5, 2012 and ended on April 30, 2013. Playoffs started on May 14 and ended on June 8, 2013.

JSF Nanterre Nanterre 92 is a professional basketball club from the city of Nanterre (a western suburb of Paris), France. The club plays in the top-tier level basketball league in France, the Pro A, since 2011. Founded in 2011 as JSF Nanterre, the club pla ...

won their first title.

Promotion and relegation

Team arenas

Regular season

Season team leader(s)

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Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very ...

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Chalon Chalon may refer to: Culture * Chalon people, a Native American tribe of California * Chalon language, an Ohlone language spoken by the Chalon people Places * Chalon, Isère, formerly Châlons, in France's Isère ''département'' * Le Chalon, in ...

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Stats leaders

Playoffs

Awards

LNB awards

;Regular Season MVPs * ''Foreign'' MVP :

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( Gravelines-Dunkerque) * ''French'' MVP : Edwin Jackson ( Lyon-Villeurbanne) ; Best scorer *

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Paris-Levallois Metropolitans 92 is a French professional basketball club that is based in Levallois-Perret, in the Paris metropolitan area. The club currently plays in the LNB Pro A, the highest-tier level in French basketball. The club was established in 2007 ...

) ;Rising Star Award * Livio Jean-Charles ( Lyon-Villeurbanne) ;Best Defensive Player * Tony Dobbins ( Poitiers) ;Most Improved Player * Edwin Jackson ( Lyon-Villeurbanne) ;Block Leader * Rudy Gobert (

Cholet Cholet (, , probably from Latin language, Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a Communes of France, commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire Departments of France, department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous c ...

) ;Best Coach * Christian Monschau ( Gravelines-Dunkerque)

Finals MVP

* David Lighty (

Nanterre Nanterre (, ) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris. It is located some northwest of the centre of Paris. In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807. The eastern part of Nanterre, bordering t ...

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Player of the month

References

External links

*
LNB website
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