The 2004 LNBP was the 5th season of the

Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional The National Professional Basketball League ( or LNBP), officially known as the Liga Grupo Caliente, Caliente LNBP for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball sports league, league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 1 ...

, one of the

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leagues of

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. It started on July 1, 2004 and ended on December 8, 2004. The league title was won by Santos Reales de San Luis, which defeated

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in the championship series, 4–2.

Format

20 teams participate. The teams are divided in 2 groups of 10 teams each, called ''Zonas'' (zones): ''Zona Norte'' (North) and ''Zona Sur'' (South). The first 8 teams of each group qualify for the playoffs. The group playoffs have quarterfinals (best-of-5), semifinals (best-of-7) and finals (best-of-7). The winner of each group series qualify for the championship series (best-of-7), named ''Campeón de Campeones'' (Champion of Champions).

Teams

Regular season

Zona Norte standings

Zona Sur standings

Note: The LNBP website calculates 51 points for Garzas de Plata de la UAEH, thus ranking the team below Coras de la UAN.

Playoffs

''Source''

Copa Independencia

The first edition of the Copa Independencia, a tournament that took place in September, was played between the 8 best ranked teams at the end of the first part of the season. The tournament was won by Lobos de la UAdeC, which defeated Lechugueros de León, 94–88 in the final game played at Gimnasio Hermanos Carreón in

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Quarterfinals

* September 5: Lecugueros de León 103, Fuerza Regia de Monterrey 92 * September 5: Halcones UV Xalapa 96, La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal 83 * September 6: Santos Reales de San Luis 105, Cometas de Querétaro 101 * September 6: Lobos de la UAdeC 129, Panteras de Aguascalientes 117 (2OT)

Semifinals

* September 7: Lechugueros de León 102, Santos Reales de San Luis 89 * September 7: Lobos de la UAdeC 122, Halcones UV Xalapa 116

Final

All-Star Game

The 2004 LNBP All-Star Game was played in

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at the

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on August 31, 2004. The game was played between a team of Mexican players (''Mexicanos'') and a team of foreign players (''Extranjeros''). The Mexican won, 111–106.

Teams

:Mexicanos * Miguel Acuña (Tecos de la UAG) *

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(Halcones UV Xalapa) * Enrique González (Halcones UV Xalapa) *

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(La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal) * Alonso Izaguirre (Lobos de la UAC) *

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(Lechugueros de León) *

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(Tecos de la UAG) *

Víctor Mariscal Víctor Mariscal Mata (born 24 May 1972) is a Mexican former professional basketball player. Career Mariscal played in the Halcones de Xalapa and in the Santos del Potosí of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional. National team career ...

(Lobos de la UAC) * José Portillo (Santos Reales de San Luis) *

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(Fuerza Regia de Monterrey) * Gabriel Sandoval (Lechugueros de León) *

Enrique Zúñiga Enrique Alejandro Zúñiga Castro (born 7 July 1976) is a Mexican professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Tijuana Zonkeys of the Circuito de Baloncesto de la Costa del Pacífico (CIBACOPA). Born in Guadalajar ...

(Lechugueros de León) :* Coaches: Ángel González (Halcones UV Xalapa) and Francisco Torres (Lechugueros de León) :Extranjeros *

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(La Ola Roja del Distrito Federal) * Devon Ford (Panteras de Aguascalientes) *

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(Cometas de Querétaro) * Keenan Jourdon (Correcaminos UAT Victoria) * Roland Lamont (Correcaminos UAT Matamoros) * Andre Laws (Halcones UV Xalapa) * Jason McCutcheon (Lobos de la UAC) * Tyrone McDaniel (Correcaminos UAT Victoria) * Matt Mitchell (Panteras de Aguascalientes) * Antonio Rivers (Fuerza Regia de Monterrey) * Jamaal Thomas (Santos Reales de San Luis) :* Coaches: Carlos Díaz Rodríguez (Garzas de Plata de la UAEH) and Luis Manuel López (Santos Reales de San Luis)

References

External links

2004 LNBP season
on Latinbasket.com {{Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional LNBP seasons 2004 in Mexican sports 2004–05 in North American basketball