1999 NEBL Promotion Cup explained

Nextseason:	2000
North European Basketball League
Season:	1999
Teams:	8

NEBL Promotion Cup 1999 was the first test run tournament of the North European Basketball League. The tournament was held during the 1998-99 basketball season on 23 January – 5 April 1999. The tournament included 8 teams from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Finland.

BC Žalgiris won the tournament by defeating ASK/Brocēni/LMT in the final.^[1] BC Lietuvos rytas finished in third place by defeating Plannja Basket.

The Prize fund for the Final Four competitions equaled $100,000.^[1] The winner of the NEBL Promotion Cup was awarded with $45,000 cheque, the other finalist received $25,000, 3rd-place winner - $20,000 and 4th best team got $10,000.

NEBL Promotion Cup clubs

Domestic league positions after playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses.

Country (League)	Teams
Estonia (KML)	Kalev Tallinn (1st)
Finland (Korisliiga)	TeamWARE ToPo Helsinki (1st)
Latvia (LBL)	ASK Brocēni-LMT Rīga (1st)
Latvia (LBL)	Ventspils (2nd)
Lithuania (LKL)	Žalgiris Kaunas (1st)
	Lietuvos rytas Vilnius (5th)
	Alita Alytus (8th)
Sweden (Basketligan)	Plannja Basket Luleå (2nd)

Group stage

During the group stage, each team played 10 games. A team faced opponents in own group twice (6 games) and each team from the other group once (4 games).

Key to colors
	Top two teams in each group advance to Final Four.

Group A

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Team

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Pld

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Diff

LMT

LRY

TOP

ALI

ASK Brocēni-LMT

963

903

+60

-|95-80|88-81|101-84|- style="background:#cfc;"| 2. ||align=left|

Lietuvos rytas| 10 || 6 || 4 || 934 || 916 || +18 ||120-116| -|89-88|89-65|- | 3. ||align=left|

TeamWARE ToPo| 10 || 4 || 6 || 871 || 889 || –18 ||90-92|89-92| -|91-84|- | 4. ||align=left|

Alita| 10 || 3 || 7 || 807 || 853 || –46 ||81-93|72-97|82-87| -|-|}

Group B

width=25		width=220	Team	width=40	Pld	width=40	W	width=40	L	width=40	PF	width=40	PA	width=40	Diff	ŽAL	PLA	VEN	KAL
1.	Žalgiris	10	10	0	970	748	+222		-	95-72	92-88	104-71
2.	Plannja Basket	10	6	4	878	897	–19		80-107	-	84 - 77	93-80
3.	Ventspils	10	3	7	846	920	–74		77-103	98-83	-	79-68
4.	Kalev	10	0	10	821	964	–143		73-105	101-107	80-86	-

Second round scores!! ŽAL! PLA! VEN! KAL
LMT	84-105	89-83	92-81	111-92
LRY	85-88	90-96	114-91	103-91
TOP	57-92	87-93	107-88	94-89
ALI	61-79	72-83	97-84	82-78

Source: Worldbasket.com

Final Four

Final

Final Standings

Pos^[2]	Team
1.	Žalgiris
2.	ASK Brocēni-LMT
3.	Lietuvos rytas
4.	Plannja Basket
5.	TeamWARE ToPo
6.	Alita
7.	Ventspils
8.	Kalev

All-NEBL Team'99

Coaches of all teams, which participated in the 1999 NEBL Promotion Cup, selected All-NEBL Team'99:^[3]

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All-NEBL Team'99
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(MVP)	Plannja Basket
Andrius Giedraitis	Lietuvos rytas
	ASK Brocēni-LMT
	Žalgiris
Eurelijus Žukauskas	Žalgiris

External links

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/19991005103944/http://www.nebl.com/cup.html "Zalgiris" Kaunas won NEBL Promotion Cup'99.
Web site: Final Standings after Final Four. . 2016-12-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/19991005082535/http://www.nebl.com/competition.html . 1999-10-05 . live.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991005030457/http://www.nebl.com/all-nebl.html All-NEBL Team '99.