Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete

Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete (LDB)
Developmental Basketball League

Formerly	Liga de Desenvolvimento Olímpico (LDO)
Founded	2011
Country	Brazil
Number of teams	22
Current champions	Bauru
Most championships	Pinheiros (3 title)
CEO	Cássio Roque
TV partners	SporTV
Website	lnb.com.br/ldb
2021 LDB

Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete (LDB) (English: Developmental Basketball League) is an Under-20 age version of the top-tier level Brazilian men's professional basketball league, the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB). The players need to be 20 years old and under to play in this tournament. It is a way to discover new players for future Brazilian national team generations, and for new young talents to be developed for the main teams of the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB).

However, not all the teams that make up the NBB also compete in the LDB, due to not having competitive teams in the lower Brazilian basketball league categories. So some teams focus instead on the training of their young athletes, or participate as guests, and can still help to produce good future players for Brazilian basketball. LDB receives support from the Brazilian Federal Government to be organized.

Format

The LDB was an Under-21 competition in the 2011–12 season, an Under-22 competition from the 2012–13 season to the 2016–17 season, and has been and Under-20 competition since the 2017–18 season. In 2020-21, the competition returned to Under-22. ^[1] It is organized according to the rules of FIBA for international competitions: the participating teams are divided into groups of 8 teams each. The teams in each group play against each other, and the three best teams from each group qualify to advance to the next phase, which is a 6 team group stage. The top four teams of that group then advance to the Final Four. The best team of the Final Four is crowned the champion.

LDB Finals

Year	Host (Final four)		Winners	Runners-up		Third Place	Fourth Place		Number of teams
2011 Details	Rio de Janeiro		Flamengo	Bauru		Paulistano	Brasília		16
2012 Details	Brasília		Bauru	Franca		Flamengo	São José		16
2013 Details	Rio de Janeiro		Flamengo	Minas		Pinheiros	Brasília		16
2014 Details	Fortaleza		Basquete Cearense	Flamengo		Limeira	Pinheiros		16
2015 Details	Belo Horizonte		Pinheiros	Minas		Sport	Brasília		16
2016 Details	São Bernardo do Campo		Franca	São José		São Bernardo	Limeira		16
2017-18 Details	São Paulo		Paulistano	Franca		São José	Pinheiros		16
2018 Details	São Paulo		Pinheiros	Paulistano		Palmeiras	Flamengo		16
2019 Details	São Paulo		Pinheiros	Franca		Paulistano	Flamengo		16
2020 Details	Canceled COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Details	São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Curitiba					22

MVP by edition

Season	MVP	Team
2011 Details	Fred Duarte	Flamengo
2012–13 Details	Gui Deodato	Bauru

References

1. "CBC amplia parceria com LNB para os próximos quatro anos". lnb.com.br. Retrieved 2025-06-04.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Latinbasket.com League Profile

References

• Official site of the Liga Nacional de Basquete (LNB), section LDB, with news, standings, teams and statistics: https://lnb.com.br/ldb/

• 2024 report with details about the season, participating teams, format and current Paulistano champion: https://ge.globo.com/sp/mogi-das-cruzes-suzano/basquete/noticia/2024/04/26/com-recorde-de-clubes-liga-de-desenvolvimento-de-basquete-tem-inicio-previsto-para-junho.ghtml