2016–17 LBA season
The 2016–17 LBA season, was the 95th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A PosteMobile, the highest-tier level professional basketball league in Italy. The regular season started on 2 October 2016 and finished on 7 May 2017, with the playoffs started on 12 May (dependent on an Italian club qualifying for the 2017 EuroLeague Final Four or for the 2017 Champions League Playoffs) and finished between 16 and 22 June depending on results.
| Serie A PosteMobile1 | |||||||||||||
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| Season | 2016–17 | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 2 October 2016 – 20 June 2017 | ||||||||||||
| Number of games | 240 (Regular season) 24–41 (Playoffs) | ||||||||||||
| Number of teams | 16 | ||||||||||||
| TV partner(s) | RAI, Sky Italia | ||||||||||||
| Regular season | |||||||||||||
| Top seed | EA7 Emporio Armani Milano | ||||||||||||
| Season MVP | Marcus Landry | ||||||||||||
| Relegated | Vanoli Cremona | ||||||||||||
| Finals | |||||||||||||
| Champions | Umana Reyer Venezia (3rd title) | ||||||||||||
| Runners-up | Dolomiti Energia Trento | ||||||||||||
| Semifinalists | EA7 Emporio Armani Milano Sidigas Avellino | ||||||||||||
| Finals MVP | Melvin Ejim | ||||||||||||
| Awards | |||||||||||||
| Best Young Player | Diego Flaccadori | ||||||||||||
| Statistical leaders | |||||||||||||
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| Records | |||||||||||||
| Biggest home win | Capo d'Orlando 96–53 Cantù (30 October 2016) | ||||||||||||
| Biggest away win | Vanoli Cremona 59–78 Trento (29 January 2017) | ||||||||||||
| Highest scoring | Brindisi 106–108 Reyer Venezia (7 January 2017) | ||||||||||||
| Winning streak | 10 games EA7 Emporio Armani Milano | ||||||||||||
| Losing streak | 7 games Juvecaserta Vanoli Cremona | ||||||||||||
| Highest attendance | 11,146 EA7 Milano 93–79 Brescia (12 February 2017) | ||||||||||||
| Average attendance | 3,863 | ||||||||||||
← 2015–16 2017–18 →
All statistics correct as of 29 June 2017.1 Sponsored league name, referring to PosteMobile. | |||||||||||||
As in previous years, Molten Corporation provided the official ball for all matches.
EA7 Emporio Armani Milano were the defending champions.
Umana Reyer Venezia won their 3rd title by beating Dolomiti Energia Trento in game 6 of the finals.
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