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Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional

sports league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1535763 ↗
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The National Professional Basketball League (Spanish: Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional or LNBP), officially known as the Liga Caliente LNBP for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 10 teams.

Notable basketball players who have played in the league include Jamario Moon, Dennis Rodman and Sun Mingming, among many others.

History

Foundation

In January 2000, some teams of CIMEBA (Circuito Mexicano de Básquetbol), the national basketball league in Mexico at the time, exited the league, citing CIMEBA's financial difficulties, and decided to form a new league. On March 11, 2000 the league was founded in the city of Durango with 11 teams participating. These were the founding teams, with the respective city and state:

Algodoneros de la Comarca (Torreon, Coahuila)

Correcaminos Matamoros de la UAT (Matamoros, Tamaulipas)

Correcaminos Reynosa de la UAT (Reynosa, Tamaulipas)

Correcaminos Tampico de la UAT (Tampico, Tamaulipas)

Correcaminos Victoria de la UAT (Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas)

Dorados de Chiuhuahua (Chihuahua, Chihuahua)

Garzas de Plata de la UAEH (Pachuca, Hidalgo)

Indios de la UACJ (Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua)

La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal (Mexico City, Distrito Federal)

Osos de Saltillo (Saltillo, Coahuila)

Vaqueros de Agua Prieta (Agua Prieta, Sonora)

The first president was Modesto Robledo. The LNBP set out to support and develop professional basketball in Mexico. The first edition of the league started on August 7, 2000 and finished in December, with the regular season finishing on November 11 and the playoffs starting on November 14. The first game was played in Torreón between Algodoneros de Torreón and Dorados de Chihuahua at the Auditorio Municipal: Dorados won, 80–78. The league coexisted in its first seasons with CIMEBA.

Format

Regular season

The regular season is played in round-robin format in which the 8 best-placed teams qualify to the postseason.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional” as sports league. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. The account is most persuasive where Liga, Nacional and Baloncesto can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1535763. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional” 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.