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Baloncesto Superior Nacional
File:BSN(baloncestoPr)-1.jpg
Baloncesto Superior Nacional logo
SportBasketball
Founded1933
CEOCarlos J. Beltran
Motto"Pura Pasión"'
No. of teams10
Country Puerto Rico
Most recent
champion(s)		Capitanes de Arecibo(4)
Most titlesVaqueros de Bayamón (14)
TV partner(s)CV24, Media sports tv, DirecTV
Official websitehttp://www.bsnpr.com

The Baloncesto Superior Nacional or BSN (lit. "National Superior Basketball") is the main Puerto Rican men's basketball league. It currently has 11 teams, but has had many teams in several cities of the island. The league was established in 1932. It has produced players that have distinguished themselves in the NBA, European Leagues, and other leagues.

For the 2009 season, each team will play 30 games in a single table format. The regular season is followed by a round robin with the best 8 teams divided in two groups based on regular season standings (1,8,4,5 and 2,7,3,6). The teams play against each other, then the best four teams compete in a semi-final series playing for the best of seven games. The season concludes with the finals, here two teams compete in the best of seven games.

The Vaqueros de Bayamón are the current leaders in all time championships with fourteen. The Atléticos de San Germán have fourteen, and the Leones de Ponce have twelve.

History

The BSN was a struggling league economically until the 1980s, when, with Genaro 'Tuto' Marchand as President, an explosion of basketball popularity happened all over Puerto Rico. Basketball overtook baseball as the Puerto Rican fans' second favorite sport after boxing at that time.

The fact that WAPA-TV Channel 4 transmitted six games a week for the whole island to see, was a major contributor to this change in popularity. These games were shown Sundays at 2 p.m., Sundays at 9 p.m., Wednesday nights at 9, Friday nights at 9, and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and at 9 p.m.

During that time, other legends followed in the footsteps of Juan "Pachin" Vicens (Named Greatest Basketball Player in the World at the Basketball World Championship, held in Santiago, Chile, 1959). Among those younger stars, various bright stars soon emerged, such as Mario 'Quijote' Morales, Raymond Dalmau, Jose 'Piculin' Ortiz, Ramon Rivas, Jerome Mincy, Georgie Torres, Angelo Cruz, Angel Santiago, the late Federico 'Fico' Lopez and Rubén Rodríguez showcased their talents to all of Puerto Rico's TV viewers and game goers.

After Hetin Reyes took the league over there were economic problems, but in part this is due to the rise in the cost of living. Nevertheless, the league continues to operate with 13 franchises but is looking at the future with optimism.

Currently, the leagues games are showcased on Puerto Rico's TUTV television channel.

Although some conssesions have been made, even offering Santurce fans free rides on the Tren Urbano train system so that they can attend away games at Bayamón, the league continued suffering monetary loss in 2005, and the basketball tournament was drastically reduced to only nine competing teams. In order to try to attract more fans to the venues in which the tournament is being played.

For the 2007 Season, the Morovis team moved to Fajardo and two teams joined back the league, Mayagüez Indians and Carolina Giants.

2008-present

Prior to the inauguration of the 2008 season, Henry Neumann resigned as president and entered politics. Felix "Felo" Rivera, then owner of the Criollos de Caguas, was selected to succeed him. Rivera debuted as president on September 22, 2007, when he presided over a meeting with most of the league's staff and other members of the sports community in Puerto Rico.[1] The meeting extended to ten hours and served primarily as a ceremony to officially present him as the BSN president.[1] Several changes to the league's rules were discussed, with two being adopted. The first one being a 50% penalty to franchises with payrolls larger than the $500,000 cap.[1] This had been approved before in 2004 and only Santurce and Ponce failed to stay under the salary cap, however it was abandoned following the conclusion of that season. The main difference was that, with the new rule, the money that the league received with the penalty would be awarded to teams that didn't go over the cap.[1] The second rule approved was that restrictions on second "reinforcement" players were dropped, noting that the quality of immigrant players was supposed to rise.[1] In the meeting, the league announced that the 2008 tournament would begin on March 1, 2008, earlier than in previous years. When September concluded, Miguel Laborde was replaced by Juan Trinidad as the BSN's tournament director.[1]

Teams

Team City Colors Arena Founded
Capitanes de Arecibo (Arecibo Captains) Arecibo Blue, Yellow
    		Manuel Iguina Coliseum 1946
Vaqueros de Bayamón (Bayamón Cowboys) Bayamón Blue, White
    		Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum 1930
Mets de Guaynabo (Guaynabo Mets) Guaynabo Blue, Red
    		Mario Morales Coliseum 1935
Caciques de Humacao (Humacao Caciques) Humacao Green, Red
    		Emilio E. Huyke Coliseum 2005
Gallitos de Isabela (Isabela Bantams) Isabela Yellow, Green
    		Jose "Buga" Abreu Coliseum 1969
Indios de Mayagüez (Mayagüez Indians) Mayagüez Green, Red
    		Rebecca Colberg Coliseum
Leones de Ponce (Ponce Lions) Ponce Red, Black
      		Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium 1950
Atléticos de San Germán (San Germán Athletics) San Germán Orange, Black
    		Arquelio Torres Ramírez Coliseum 1932
Cangrejeros de Santurce (Santurce Crabbers) Santurce Orange, Blue
    		José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum 1955
Piratas de Quebradillas (Quebradillas Pirates) Quebradillas Red, Black
    		Raymond Dalmau Coliseum 1932

Championships

Complete list of BSN Championship winners

Season BSN Champion Coach
1930 Capitalinos de San Juan Manuel Iglesia
1931 Capitalinos de San Juan Manuel Iglesia
1932 Atléticos de San Germán Ubladino Ramirez
1933 Vaqueros de Bayamón Onofre Carballeira
1934 Vega Baja Rodrigo 'Guigo' Otero
1935 Vaqueros de Bayamón Onofre Carballeira
1936 Vega Baja Rodrigo 'Guigo' Otero
1937 Vega Baja Rodrigo 'Guigo' Otero
1938 Atléticos de San Germán Ubladino Ramirez
1939 Atléticos de San Germán Felicio Torregrosa
1940 Capitalinos de San Juan Adolfo Porrata
1941 Atléticos de San Germán Raul Aniceto Gonzalez
1942 Atléticos de San Germán Armando 'Armandito' Torres Ortiz
1943 Tortuguero Arquelio Torres Ramirez
1944 University of Puerto Rico Felicio Torregrosa
1945 Capitalinos de San Juan Adolfo Porrata
1946 Río Piedras Ramon 'Monchito' Cestero
1947 Atléticos de San Germán Armando 'Armandito' Torres Ortiz
1948 Atléticos de San Germán Victor Murati
1949 Atléticos de San Germán Raul Gonzalez
1950 Atléticos de San Germán Luis F. Sambolin
1951 University of Puerto Rico Victor Mario Perez
1952 Leones de Ponce Tex Winter
1953 cancelled cancelled
1954 Leones de Ponce Tex Winter
1955 Río Piedras Victor Mario Perez
1956 Río Piedras Victor Mario Perez
1957 Río Piedras Victor Mario Perez
1958 Capitalinos de San Juan Floyd Brown
1959 Capitanes de Arecibo Lou Rossini
1960 Leones de Ponce Howard Shamon
1961 Leones de Ponce Jack McKenney
1962 Cangrejeros de Santurce Fufi Santori
1963 Río Piedras Lou Rossini
1964 Leones de Ponce Red Holzman
1965 Leones de Ponce Red Holzman
1966 Leones de Ponce Red Holzman
1967 Vaqueros de Bayamón Fufi Santori / Roy Rubbins
1968 Cangrejeros de Santurce Lou Rossini
1969 Vaqueros de Bayamón Art Loche
1970 Piratas de Quebradillas Erick Geldart
1971 Vaqueros de Bayamón Art Loche
1972 Vaqueros de Bayamón Tom Nissalke / Fufi Santori
1973 Vaqueros de Bayamón Del Harris
1974 Vaqueros de Bayamón Del Harris
1975 Vaqueros de Bayamón Tom Nissalke / Del Harris
1976 Río Piedras Bernie Bickerstaff
1977 Piratas de Quebradillas Ray Amalbert
1978 Piratas de Quebradillas Ray Amalbert
1979 Piratas de Quebradillas Ray Amalbert
1980 Mets de Guaynabo Julio Toro
1981 Vaqueros de Bayamón Gene Bartow / Robert Corn
1982 Mets de Guaynabo Julio Toro
1983 Indios de Canovanas Herb Brown
1984 Indios de Canovanas Julio Toro
1985 Atléticos de San Germán Flor Melendez
1986 Polluelos de Aibonito Charlie Bermudez
1987 Titanes de Morovis Miguel Mercado
1988 Vaqueros de Bayamón Robert Corn
1989 Mets de Guaynabo Julio Toro
1990 Leones de Ponce Miguel Mercado
1991 Atléticos de San Germán Carlos Morales Matos
1992 Leones de Ponce Julio Toro
1993 Leones de Ponce Julio Toro
1994 Atléticos de San Germán Carlos Morales Matos
1995 Vaqueros de Bayamón Flor Melendez
1996 Vaqueros de Bayamón Flor Melendez
1997 Atléticos de San Germán Miguel Mercado
1998 Cangrejeros de Santurce Julio Toro
1999 Cangrejeros de Santurce Julio Toro
2000 Cangrejeros de Santurce Julio Toro
2001 Cangrejeros de Santurce Julio Toro
2002 Leones de Ponce Carlos Mario Rivera
2003 Cangrejeros de Santurce Julio Toro
2004 Leones de Ponce Manolo Cintron
2005 Capitanes de Arecibo Carlos Mario Rivera
2006 Criollos de Caguas Leonell Arill
2007 Cangrejeros de Santurce Tony Ruiz
2008 Capitanes de Arecibo David Rosario
2009 Vaqueros de Bayamón Julio Toro
2010 Capitanes de Arecibo David Rosario

Number of championships won by teams

Teams Championships
Vaqueros de Bayamon 14 (1933, 1935, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988, 1995, 1996 y 2009).
Atleticos de San German 14 (1932, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1997)
Leones de Ponce 12 (1952, 1954, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2004)
Cangrejeros de Santurce 8 (1962, 1968, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007)
Rio Piedras 6 (1946, 1955, 1956, 1957,1963, 1976)
Capitalinos de SanJuan 5 (1930, 1931, 1940, 1945, 1958)
Piratas de Quebradillas 4 (1970, 1977, 1978, 1979)
Capitanes de Arecibo 4 (1959. 2005, 2008, 2010)
Mets de Guaynabo 3 (1980, 1982, 1989)
Vega Baja 3 (1934, 1936, 1937)
University of Puerto Rico 2 (1944 , 1951)
Indios de Canovanas 2 (1983 , 1984)
Criollos de Caguas 1 (2006)
Polluelos de Aibonito 1 (1986)
Titanes de Morovis 1 (1987)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Carlos Rosa Rosa (2007-09-23). "Deportes". BSN: Debuta 'Felo' Rivera (in Spanish). Puerto Rico: El Nuevo Día. p. 136.

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