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2011–12 PBL season

tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ368076 ↗
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The 2011–12 Russian Professional Basketball League (PBL) was the second season of the Russian Professional League, and the 21st overall season of the Russian Professional Championship. CSKA Moscow won the title, by beating Khimki Moscow Region 2–0 in the league's playoff Finals.

Format

Because of the involvement of the senior men's Russia national basketball team at the Olympic qualifying tournament in 2012, the 2011–12 Russian Professional League was reduced to two playoff series.

All teams met each other at home and away venues. In the regular season, each team played 18 games.

Teams

Regular season

Championship playoffs

Fifth position playoffs

Awards

Regular season MVP

Davon Jefferson (Triumph Lyubertsy)

Playoffs MVP

Alexey Shved (CSKA Moscow)

All-Symbolic Team

First Symbolic Team

Patrick Beverley (Spartak St.

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The public source identifies “2011–12 PBL season” as tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around season and tournament.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with season and tournament providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2011–12 PBL season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.