The 2021–22 LBA season is the 100th season of the

Lega Basket Serie A The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is a professional men's club (sport), club basketball list of basketball leagues, league that has been organised in Italy since 1920. Serie A is organised by Lega Basket, which is regulated by the Italian Basketball ...

(LBA), the men's top-tier professional basketball division of the Italian basketball league system.

Teams

Promotion and relegation

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withdrew in the past season. Cantu ended on 15th place and therefore relegated to the Serie A2.

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and

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were two best teams in Serie A2 and therefore promoted to Serie A.

Number of teams by region

Venues and locations

Source:

Managerial changes

Referees

A total of 38 FIP officials set to work on the 2020–21 season in Lega Basket Serie A: ;Notes : Newly promoted to the Serie A

Regular season

In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays are from September 25, 2021, to May 8, 2022.

League table

Playoffs

The LBA playoffs quarterfinals and semifinals are best of five formats, while the finals series are best of seven format. The playoffs started in May 2022 and finished in June 2022.

Awards

Source:

Season MVP

* Amedeo Della Valle –

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Best Defender

* Kyle Hines – A, X Armani Exchange Milan

Best Player Under 22

* Matteo Spagnolo –

Vanoli Cremona Guerino Vanoli Basket, also known as Vanoli Cremona, is a professional basketball team of the city of Cremona. The team played in the Lega Basket Serie A, LBA, the top Italian basketball league, for 12 years until 2021. From 1999 to 2011 the soci ...

Best Sixth Man

Marco Belinelli Marco Stefano Belinelli (; born 25 March 1986) is an Italian professional basketball player and the captain (sports), team captain for Virtus Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He was selected 18th overall in the 2007 NB ...

–

Virtus Bologna Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one ...

Finals MVP

Shavon Shields Shavon O'Day Shields (born June 5, 1994) is an American-Danish professional basketball player and the vice-captain for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornh ...

– A, X Armani Exchange Milan

Rookie of the Year

* Naz Mitrou-Long –

Serie A clubs in European competitions

References

External links

Lega Basket website
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2021–22 in Italian basketball