Baloncesto Superior Nacional

The Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN ) is a professional basketball league in Puerto Rico. She currently has ten active teams and seven inactive teams. The first championships were conducted in 1930 under the organization of the " Asociación de Baloncesto Puertorriqueña ". The season usually begins in March and ends in the summer. The League is therefore considered " summer league ", which is also used by otherwise engaged professionals, many Puerto Rican descent, unless they are excreted in European or North American leagues after the regular season or early in the play-offs to be in their off-season to present. This is similar to the League of Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico, which performs their games in the off-season of the U.S. professional baseball leagues. The club organizations use in baseball as in basketball at the respective place are often the same names or nicknames for their teams.

In the regular season either 30 or 32 games will be conducted by each club. After this regular season is the so-called "round robin " is linked, in 2011, the top six teams in the regular season were approved, with the last two places in the second group stage were played between four teams each. After the second phase, the final series of the two best teams, which is carried out in a "best - of-seven " series follows.

The current record holder Vaqueros de Bayamón are the fourteen titles profits. The following are the Atlético de San Germán thirteen and the Leones de Ponce with twelve championships.

History

The BSN was up to the 1980s, an economically faltering league, but with Genaro ' Tuto ' Marchand as president, an extreme basketball popularity spawned. So overtook basketball, then the second most popular sport of baseball and was only behind the then- popular sport of boxing. After taking over the line by Hetin Reyes, economic problems, but they were generally attributed to the rising cost of living emerged again. Nevertheless, the game operation was continued with 13 teams.

In 2005, the financial problems pointed again to dramatically so that the number of participating teams was reduced to nine. However, already returned to the 2007 season, two teams back, the Indios de Mayagüez and the Gigantes de Carolina.

2008-present

Before the start of the season, Henry Neumann resigned the office of league President and entered into politics, after which Felix " Felo " Rivera, the then owner of the Criollos de Caguas, his successor took. Right at the beginning of his term, two new regulations were introduced, which should ensure the stability of the gaming operation. Firstly, a salary cap of $ 500,000 was introduced. Violations of these salaries ceiling, the teams are promoted to the penalties, which may have adhered to the rules. Secondly, the restriction of players without Puerto Rican citizenship per team were abolished.

Men

The individual teams have not participated in the past throughout the game mode, but are often reactivated. In almost complete participation of teams the league has also been divided into divisions, distinguishing between teams from the metropolitan area of San Juan and the rest of the island in particular western. The names listed here are in the Spanish language, as the self- representation of the league and the clubs in various media. Other official language of Puerto Rico is English, so that in particular in the Puerto Rican mainland United States often also the English names of the teams are common; for further explanation of the German language translation is there given in parentheses. The full name of a team is in Spanish, de Location ' or in English, ' (eg, Vaqueros de Bayamón 'or, Bayamón Cowboys' ). Italics, bold teams not marked have not been reported for the season 2012.

* " Cariduros " is the nickname of the inhabitants of Fajardo. It is said that it alludes to the "weathered faces" ( German weather-beaten faces ) of the residents.

Title holders

Pictures of Baloncesto Superior Nacional

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