2008–09 Israeli Basketball Super League

2008-09 Israeli Basketball Super League season
League	Israeli Basketball Super League
Sport	Basketball
Duration	26 October 2008 - 21 May 2009
Number of games	158
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	Sport 5, Israel 10
Regular Season
League champions	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Runners-up	Hapoel Jerusalem
Top scorer	Luis Flores (Hapoel Holon)
Relegated to Ligat Leumit	Elitzur Kiryat Ata Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel
Final four
Champions	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Runners-up	Maccabi Haifa Heat
Finals MVP	Carlos Arroyo (Maccabi Tel Aviv)

The Israeli Basketball Super League (BSL) 2008-09 season was the 55th season of the top basketball league in Israel. The season began on 26 October 2008 and ended on 21 May 2009. Maccabi Tel Aviv won its 48th league title, defeating Maccabi Haifa Heat 85-72 in the final. The defending champion was Hapoel Holon.

Each out of the 12 participating teams played 22 regular league games, one home game and one away game against each other team. The top eight teams qualified to the playoff, where they played best-of-5 series decided by the rankings at the end of the regular season (first against eighth, second against seventh and so on).

The four last ranked team competed in a best-of-5 series relegation playoff, where Elitzur Kiryat Ata and Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel lost and were relegated to Liga Leumit. They will be replaced by Maccabi Elitzur Netanya and Hapoel Afula, who qualified from Liga Leumit.

Regular season

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	22	19	3	2002	1659	+343	41
2.	Hapoel Jerusalem	22	17	5	1962	1828	+134	39
3.	Maccabi Haifa	22	14	8	1734	1651	+83	36
4.	Hapoel Holon	22	13	9	1811	1764	+47	35
5.	Gilboa/Galil	22	13	9	1728	1672	+56	35
6.	Bnei HaSharon	22	13	9	1713	1696	+17	35
7.	Ironi Nahariya	22	10	12	1790	1740	+50	32
8.	Ironi Ashkelon	22	8	14	1769	1797	-28	30
9.	Ironi Ramat Gan	22	8	14	1707	1861	-154	30
10.	Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel	22	7	15	1706	1788	-82	29
11.	Maccabi Rishon LeZion	22	7	15	1769	1903	-134	29
12.	Elitzur Kiryat Ata	22	3	19	1688	2020	-332	25

	Qualification to Playoffs
	Qualification to Relegation Playoffs

Pld - Played; W - Won; L - Lost; PF - Points for; PA - Points against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.

	BNS	EKA	HPG	HPH	HPJ	IAS	INA	IRG	MGS	MHA	MRL	MTA
Bnei HaSharon		82-67	71-66	76-87	77-73	74-91	80-76	88-78	96-75	97-78	90-92	83-75
Elitzur Kiryat Ata	79-74		63-84	68-104	72-117	71-75	87-80	82-85	80-101	76-86	93-91	56-88
Gilboa/Galil	74-54	86-75		58-64	87-90	70-68	84-72	79-84	77-72	88-83	101-87	64-87
Hapoel Holon	83-52	83-79	89-103		90-69	85-76 ^[1]	77-75	93-67	85-89	75-82	107-106	72-91
Hapoel Jerusalem	92-85	103-94	81-74	91-81		85-82	93-92	105-90	101-86	100-78	96-74	91-77
Ironi Ashkelon	81-76	96-74	78-79	94-84	78-87		91-87	85-91	73-68	77-84	80-88	75-99
Ironi Nahariya	65-67	103-73	90-73	74-76	82-67	84-90		81-74	89-80	61-71	77-84	85-102
Ironi Ramat Gan	68-77	87-77	72-81	85-70	108-92	66-81	64-79		81-73	72-89	72-73	56-102
Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel	68-79	93-81	68-65	63-74	77-87	76-70	90-96	89-90		60-76	87-76	73-77
Maccabi Haifa	70-75	92-75	72-79	90-71	73-80	79-68	57-76	94-74	77-69		75-68	79-76
Maccabi Rishon LeZion	78-95	108-86	63-86	71-79	74-81	77-69	92-93	68-57	77-88	54-81		93-96
Maccabi Tel Aviv	77-65	102-80	89-70	105-82	97-81	97-86	84-78	103-86	81-61	80-68	114-75

Playoff

The higher ranked team hosts games 1, 3 and 5 (if necessary). The lower ranked team hosts games 2 and 4 (if necessary).

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	Game 1 25–26 April	Game 2 3–4 May	Game 3 7 May	Game 4 10 May	Game 5 14 May
Maccabi Tel Aviv (1)	3–1	Ironi Ashkelon (8)	95–96 (OT)	86–69	92–69	97–65
Hapoel Jerusalem (2)	3–0	Ironi Nahariya (7)	78–76	92–79	88–80
Maccabi Haifa (3)	3–1	Bnei HaSharon (6)	66–69	75–71	74–61	87–68
Hapoel Holon (4)	2–3	Galil/Gilboa (5)	74–81	63–61	79–78 (OT)	55–77	80–87(OT)

Final four

See 2008-09 Israeli Final Four

Relegation Playoff

The higher ranked team hosts games 1, 3 and 5 (if necessary). The lower ranked team hosts games 2 and 4 (if necessary).

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	Game 1 26 April	Game 2 3 May	Game 3 7 May
Ironi Ramat Gan (9)	3–0	Elitzur Kiryat Ata (12)	83–76	96–79	100–87
Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel (10)	0–3	Maccabi Rishon LeZion (11)	62–72	67–81	64–90

Elitzur Kiryat Ata and Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel were relegated to Liga Leumit.

Awards

The 2008–09 Basketball Super League Season Awards were granted during the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Gala Dinner on May 16 to the players who stood out the most during the regular season and the playoff.^[2] The MVP awards for the best player and coach of the season were given before the final game had been played.

BSL 2008–09 MVP

Doron Perkins (Maccabi Haifa Heat)

BSL 2008–09 Final MVP

Carlos Arroyo (Maccabi Tel Aviv)

Coach of the season

Avi Ashkenazi (Maccabi Haifa Heat)

All-BSL Team

Doron Perkins (Maccabi Haifa Heat)
Luis Flores (Hapoel Holon)
Omri Casspi (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Lior Eliyahu (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Omar Sneed (Hapoel Jerusalem)

Best 6th man

Davon Jefferson (Maccabi Haifa Heat)

Best newcomer

Gal Mekel (Gilboa/Galil)

Most improving player

Uri Kukia (Hapoel Holon)

Best defensive player

Brian Randle (Gilboa/Galil)

References

↑ The Hapoel Holon-Ironi Ashkelon match was stopped after 6 minutes after one of the rims had been broken. The rim couldn't be fixed, and the match was postponed to a later data. Hapoel Holon was fined for this incident.
↑ The 2008/09 BSL Season Awards

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