2022–23 Basketball Champions League
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The 2022–23 Basketball Champions League was the 7th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the premier[citation needed] European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA. The season began on 3 October 2022 and ended 14 May 2023 with the championship game.
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Season | 2022–23 | |||||||||
Dates | Qualifying: 21–25 September 2022 Competition proper: 3 October 2022 – 14 May 2023 | |||||||||
Number of teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 52 (from 29 countries) | |||||||||
Regular season | ||||||||||
Season MVP | T. J. Shorts (Bonn) | |||||||||
Final Four | ||||||||||
Champions | Telekom Baskets Bonn (1st title) | |||||||||
Runners-up | Hapoel Jerusalem | |||||||||
Third place | Lenovo Tenerife | |||||||||
Fourth place | Unicaja Malaga | |||||||||
Final Four MVP | T. J. Shorts (Bonn) | |||||||||
Awards | ||||||||||
Best Coach | Tuomas Iisalo (Bonn) | |||||||||
Best Young Player | Sadık Emir Kabaca (Galatasaray) | |||||||||
Statistical leaders | ||||||||||
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Telekom Baskets Bonn defeated Hapoel Jerusalem in the final of the Final Four, which was played in the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Málaga.[1] Bonn became the first German club to win the Basketball Champions League title. As the winners, Bonn automatically qualified for the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup in Singapore.
Lenovo Tenerife were the defending champions, but lost in the semi-finals by Hapoel Jerusalem.[2]