Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete

Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete (LDB)
Developmental Basketball League
Formerly	Liga de Desenvolvimento Olímpico (LDO)
Founded	2011
Country	Brazil
Number of teams	22
Current champions	Bauru
Most championships	Pinheiros (3 title)
CEO	Cássio Roque
TV partners	SporTV
Website	lnb.com.br/ldb
	2021 LDB

Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete (LDB) (English: Developmental Basketball League) is an Under-20 age version of the top-tier level Brazilian men's professional basketball league, the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB). The players need to be 20 years old and under to play in this tournament. It is a way to discover new players for future Brazilian national team generations, and for new young talents to be developed for the main teams of the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB).

However, not all the teams that make up the NBB also compete in the LDB, due to not having competitive teams in the lower Brazilian basketball league categories. So some teams focus instead on the training of their young athletes, or participate as guests, and can still help to produce good future players for Brazilian basketball. LDB receives support from the Brazilian Federal Government to be organized.

Format

The LDB was an Under-21 competition in the 2011–12 season, an Under-22 competition from the 2012–13 season to the 2016–17 season, and has been and Under-20 competition since the 2017–18 season. It is organized according to the rules of FIBA for international competitions: the participating teams are divided into groups of 8 teams each. The teams in each group play against each other, and the three best teams from each group qualify to advance to the next phase, which is a 6 team group stage. The top four teams of that group then advance to the Final Four. The best team of the Final Four is crowned the champion.

LDB Finals

Year	Host (Final four)	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place	Number of teams
2011 Details	Rio de Janeiro	Flamengo	Bauru	Paulistano	Brasília	16
2012 Details	Brasília	Bauru	Franca	Flamengo	São José	16
2013 Details	Rio de Janeiro	Flamengo	Minas	Pinheiros	Brasília	16
2014 Details	Fortaleza	Basquete Cearense	Flamengo	Limeira	Pinheiros	16
2015 Details	Belo Horizonte	Pinheiros	Minas	Sport	Brasília	16
2016 Details	São Bernardo do Campo	Franca	São José	São Bernardo	Limeira	16
2017-18 Details	São Paulo	Paulistano	Franca	São José	Pinheiros	16
2018 Details	São Paulo	Pinheiros	Paulistano	Palmeiras	Flamengo	16
2019 Details	São Paulo	Pinheiros	Franca	Paulistano	Flamengo	16
2020 Details	Canceled COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Details	São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Curitiba					22