2021–22 LBA season

The 2021–22 LBA season is the 100th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the men's top-tier professional basketball division of the Italian basketball league system.

Promotion and relegation
Virtus Roma withdrew in the past season. Cantu ended on 15th place and therefore relegated to the Serie A2.

Napoli and Tortona were two best teams in Serie A2 and therefore promoted to Serie A.

Venues and locations
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Referees
A total of 38 FIP officials set to work on the 2020–21 season in Lega Basket Serie A:

• Beniamino Manuel Attard (Siracusa)

• Lorenzo Baldini (Florence)

• Mark Bartoli (Trieste)

• Roberto Begnis (Cremona)

• Gabriele Bettini (Bologna)

• Andrea Bongiorni (Pisa)

• Matteo Boninsegna (Milan)

• Denny Borgioni (Rome)

• Christian Borgo (Vicenza)

• Federico Brindisi (Turin)

• Gianluca Capotorto (Rome)

• Marco Catani (Pescara)

• Guido Federico Di Francesco (Teramo)

• Giacomo Dori (Venice)

• Massimiliano Filippini (Bologna)

• Martino Galasso (Siena)

• Guido Giovannetti (Terni)

• Edoardo Gonella (Genoa)

• Valerio Grigioni (Rome)

• Saverio Lanzarini (Bologna)

• Carmelo Lo Guzzo (Pisa)

• Alessandro Martolini (Rome)

• Silvia Marziali (Rome)

• Manuel Mazzoni (Grosseto)

• Alessandro Nicolini (Palermo)

• Sergio Noce (Latina)

• Fabrizio Paglialunga (Taranto)

• Carmelo Paternicò (Enna)

• Giulio Pepponi (Perugia)

• Alessandro Perciavalle (Turin)

• Marco Pierantozzi (Ascoli Piceno)

• Denis Quarta (Turin)

• Michele Rossi (Arezzo)

• Tolga Ozge Sahin (Messina)

• Andrea Valzani (Milan)

• Alessandro Vicino (Bologna)

• Marco Vita (Ancona)
 * Notes
 * Newly promoted to the Serie A

Regular season
In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays are from September 25, 2021, to May 8, 2022.

Playoffs
The LBA playoffs quarterfinals and semifinals are best of five formats, while the finals series are best of seven format. The playoffs started in May 2022 and finished in June 2022.

Awards
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Season MVP

 * 🇮🇹 Amedeo Della Valle – Brescia

Best Defender

 * 🇺🇸 Kyle Hines – A | X Armani Exchange Milan

Best Player Under 22

 * 🇮🇹 Matteo Spagnolo – Vanoli Cremona

Best Sixth Man

 * 🇮🇹 Marco Belinelli – Virtus Bologna

Finals MVP

 * 🇩🇰 Shavon Shields – A | X Armani Exchange Milan

Rookie of the Year

 * 🇨🇦  Naz Mitrou-Long – Brescia