The 2021 Basketball Champions League Americas season was the 14th edition of the top-tier level professional club

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competition in the

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and the second of the

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(BCLA) since launched by

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in 2019. It was also the 22nd season of Pan-American top-level competition, as well as the 59th season of South American top-level competition. The season began on 31 January 2021 and ended on 13 April 2021. The season ended with a Final Eight tournament that was hosted in

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, Nicaragua. The defending champions

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were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

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won its second continental championship after defeating

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in the

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. As champions, Flamengo also qualified for the 2022 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.

Team allocation

A total of 12 teams from 6 countries participated in the 2020–21 Basketball Champions League Americas.

Teams

League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses. Because

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and Aguada from Uruguay were not able to participation due to national restrictions,

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and

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were given wild cards by FIBA. Universidad de Concepción replaced Chilean champions

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, who withdrew. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: * 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs * Abd: Abandoned seasons due to

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* TH: Title holders * WC: Qualified through Wild Card

Group phase

The 12 teams are drawn into four groups of three, while taking into account geographic location. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away, in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the

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, while the remaining team in each group is eliminated.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Playoffs

The playoffs, also called the Final Eight, began on 10 April and ended on 13 April 2021. All games were played in the Alexis Arguello Sports Complex in the Nicaraguan capital

Bracket

Awards

Most Valuable Player

Statistics

The following were the statistical leaders in the 2021 season.

Individual statistic leaders

Individual game highs

Notes

References

External links

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