Adriatic Basketball League 2007/08

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Adriatic basketball
league 2007/2008 season
Logo of the ABA League
sport basketball
founding year 2001
Teams 14th
countries Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Montenegro Serbia Slovenia
CroatiaCroatia 
MontenegroMontenegro 
SerbiaSerbia 
SloveniaSlovenia 
master SerbiaSerbia KK Partizan
(2nd title)
MVP
(regular season)
SerbiaSerbia Tadija Dragićević from Red Star Belgrade
SerbiaSerbia

The 2007-08 Adriatic Basketball League season was the seventh season of the Adriatic Basketball League. 14 teams from 5 countries took part in the 2007/08 season. The season began on October 3, 2007 and ended on April 26, 2008. KK Partizan became champions for the second time .

Tournament format

In the regular season, 14 teams played a double round each against each other. After the regular season, the final four participants were best-of-three in a knockout round. Then the first four teams played the final four.

Participating teams

country team city Venue (capacity)
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Široki Brijeg Široki Brijeg Dvorana Pecara (4,500)
CroatiaCroatia KK split Split Arena Gripe (6,000)
CroatiaCroatia KK Zadar Zadar Dvorana Krešimira Ćosića (9,200)
CroatiaCroatia KK Cibona Zagreb Zagreb Dražen Petrović basketball hall (5,400)
CroatiaCroatia KK Zagreb Zagreb Dražen Petrović basketball hall (5,400)
MontenegroMontenegro KK Budućnost Podgorica Podgorica Sports ski center Morača (5,000)
SerbiaSerbia FMP Železnik Belgrade Železnik Hall (3,000)
SerbiaSerbia KK Red Star Belgrade Belgrade Pionir Hall (8,150)
SerbiaSerbia KK Partizan Belgrade Pionir Hall (8,150)
SerbiaSerbia Vojvodina Srbijagas Novi Sad SPENS (8,000)
SerbiaSerbia Hemofarm Vršac Millennium Center (5,000)
SloveniaSlovenia KK Helios Domžale Domžale Municipal Center Halle (2,500)
SloveniaSlovenia KD Slovan Ljubljana Dvorana Kodeljevo (1,500)
SloveniaSlovenia Union Olimpija Ljubljana Arena Stožice (12,480)


Regular season

The regular season games took place from October 3, 2007 to March 23, 2008.

table

Final score

space team Sp S. N P + P- Diff
1 SerbiaSerbia Partizan Belgrade 26th 24 2 2119 1855 +264
2 CroatiaCroatia KK Zadar 26th 18th 8th 2080 2001 +79
3 SerbiaSerbia Hemofarm STADA 26th 16 10 2063 1986 +77
4th SerbiaSerbia Red Star 26th 16 10 2275 2212 +63
5 SloveniaSlovenia Union Olimpija 26th 15th 11 2071 1961 +110
6th MontenegroMontenegro Budućnost 26th 15th 11 2099 2014 +85
7th SerbiaSerbia FMP Železnik 26th 15th 11 2147 2083 +64
8th CroatiaCroatia Cibona Zagreb 26th 15th 11 2117 2103 +14
9 SerbiaSerbia Vojvodina Srbijagas 26th 12 14th 1971 1991 −20
10 CroatiaCroatia KK split 26th 11 15th 2018 2069 −51
11 CroatiaCroatia Zagreb 26th 7th 19th 2043 2167 −124
12 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Široki Brijeg 26th 7th 19th 1949 2080 −131
13 SloveniaSlovenia Helios Domžale 26th 6th 20th 1986 2127 −141
14th SloveniaSlovenia KD Slovan 26th 5 21st 1907 2196 −289

Play-off

The play-off games took place from March 25, 2008 to March 31, 2008.

Team # 1 Agg. Team # 2 1st game 2nd game 3rd game *
SerbiaSerbia Partizan Belgrade 2 - 0 CroatiaCroatia Cibona Zagreb 90 - 80 100 - 93 -
CroatiaCroatia KK Zadar 2 - 1 SerbiaSerbia FMP Železnik 95 - 91 (OT) 94 - 99 (OT) 74 - 73
SerbiaSerbia Hemofarm STADA 2 - 1 MontenegroMontenegro Budućnost 87 - 71 55 - 64 75 - 69
SerbiaSerbia Red Star 1 - 2 SloveniaSlovenia Union Olimpija 93 - 87 60 - 88 74 - 97

Final four

The final four took place on April 25th and 26th, 2008.

  Semifinals final
                 
1 SerbiaSerbia Partizan Belgrade 94    
5 SloveniaSlovenia Union Olimpija 90  
1 SerbiaSerbia Partizan Belgrade 63
  3 SerbiaSerbia Hemofarm STADA 49
2 CroatiaCroatia KK Zadar 72
3 SerbiaSerbia Hemofarm STADA 81  

Awards

Regular Season MVP

CroatiaCroatia Ante Tomić from KK ZagrebCroatiaCroatia