Baloncesto Superior Nacional | |
Season: | 2024 |
Champions: | Criollos de Caguas 2nd |
Runners Up: | Osos de Manatí |
Teams: | 12 |
Games: | 34 |
Duration: | April 3 – August 30 |
Tv: | Telemundo Puerto Rico |
Mvp Link: | BSN Most Valuable Player Award |
Finals Mvp: | Travis Trice (Criollos) |
Prevseason: | 2023 |
Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2024 Baloncesto Superior Nacional season is the 95th season of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN).[1] The Gigantes de Carolina comes into the season as the defending champions, winning the 2023 BSN Finals.[2] The regular season began on April 3, and ended on July 1. The tie-breaker and play-in game was held on July 10–12, 2024. The 2024 BSN playoffs then began on July 13.
On August 17, 2023, the league approved the transfer of ownership of the Grises de Humacao to a group that relocated them to Caguas and rebranded the team as Criollos de Caguas, a club that participated in the BSN from 1976 to 2009.[3]
Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Jersey sponsor | |
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Atléticos de San Germán | Tjader Fernandez | ||||
Cangrejeros de Santurce | Angel Matias | ||||
Capitanes de Arecibo | Juan Cardona | AC Sports | Brava Lubricants | ||
Criollos de Caguas | Wilhelmus Caanen | Alexander Kappos | Optime Sports | Calesa Toyota | |
Gigantes de Carolina | Carlos Gonzalez | ||||
Indios de Mayagüez | Jorge Pacheco | ||||
Leones de Ponce | AC Sports | ||||
Mets de Guaynabo | Monarch | ||||
Osos de Manatí | Iván Ríos | ||||
Piratas de Quebradillas | Rafael Cruz | William Cruz Rodriguez | AC Sports | Sixt | |
Santeros de Aguada | Omar González | Coop Rincón, SpeedyNet | |||
Vaqueros de Bayamón | Optime Sports | Goya Foods |
Category | Player | Team | Statistic |
---|---|---|---|
Points per game | 21.5 | ||
Rebounds per game | Cangrejeros de Santurce | 15.1 | |
Assists per game | 7.7 | ||
Steals per game | 1.6 | ||
Blocks per game | 1.9 | ||
FG% | Christian M. Negron | 69.0% | |
3FG% | Alonzo Ortiz Traylor | 50.0% | |
FT% | Ivan Gandia | 93.0% | |
Category | Team | Statistic |
---|---|---|
Points per game | 96.3 | |
Rebounds per game | 39.6 | |
Assists per game | 21.9 | |
Steals per game | 7.4 | |
Blocks per game | Mets de Guaynabo | 4.2 |
FG% | Capitanes de Arecibo | 51.0% |
3FG% | Capitanes de Arecibo | 40.0% |
On July 11, 2024, the league announced the end of season award winners; with Travis Trice being named the league's Most Valuable Player. This year's BSN Awards event was held in the theater of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law.[4]
Travis Trice -- Criollos de Caguas (20.7 PPG, 7.2 APG, 3.5 RPG)
Jhivvan Jackson -- Osos de Manatí (12.0 PPG, 2.9 APG, 2.7 RPG)
All rounds are a best-of-seven series; a series ended when one team won four games, and that team advanced to the next round.
The 2024 Final (also known as the 2024 La Final Brava for sponsorship reasons) is the championship series of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN)'s 2024 season and conclusion to the season's playoffs. The final's series was a best-of-seven alternating venues after every game between the final two teams: Criollos de Caguas and Osos de Manatí.
Game | Date | Road team | Result | Home team | |
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Game 1 | August 17 | Osos de Manatí | 105 – 99 (1–0) | Criollos de Caguas | |
Game 2 | August 19 | Criollos de Caguas | 109 – 104 OT (1–1) | Osos de Manatí | |
Game 3 | August 21 | Osos de Manatí | 89 – 85 (2–1) | Criollos de Caguas | |
Game 4 | August 23 | Criollos de Caguas | 91 – 86 (2–2) | Osos de Manatí | |
Game 5 | August 25 | Osos de Manatí | 98 – 89 (3–2) | Criollos de Caguas | |
Game 6 | August 27 | Criollos de Caguas | 122 – 121 2OT (3–3) | Osos de Manatí | |
Game 7 | August 30 | Osos de Manatí | 81 – 96 (3–4) | Criollos de Caguas |
Note: Times are EDT (UTC−4) as listed by the BSN.