Reclaiming hegemony after 13 years… First win for a professional team from Busan in 27 years.
Busan KCC, a professional basketball team, won the championship game for the first time as a team ranked 5th in the regular league.
KCC won 88-70 in the away game against Suwon KT in the 5th game of the 2023-2024 CheongKwanJang Professional Basketball Championship (4 wins out of 7) held at the KT Arena in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do on the 5th.
KCC, which ended the championship game with 4 wins and 1 loss, became the first team in the history of professional basketball, launched in 1997, to win the championship game even after finishing 5th in the regular league. 파워볼
The Busan KCC also regained league supremacy 13 years after the 2010-2011 season and achieved its 6th championship, including during its predecessor, Daejeon Hyundai.
KCC, which moved its headquarters from Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do to Busan ahead of the opening of this season, is also at the top of the four major professional sports in Korea (including baseball, soccer, basketball, and volleyball in the past) for the first time in 27 years since Daewoo in professional soccer and Kia in professional basketball in 1997.
They became a team based in Busan.
Busan KCC Heo Woong was selected as the best player in the playoffs.
It received 31 out of 84 votes from the press.
Laguna followed with 27 votes.
KCC took a 40-36 lead in the first half of the day, and widened the score gap in earnest in the second half.
KCC, which was ahead 47-45 in the middle of the third quarter, widened the gap to 54-45 with Calvin Jeffrey Espitola’s 3-pointer, Laguna’s dunk, and Laguna’s offensive rebound followed by another under-the-goal score.
Afterwards, La Gun-ah succeeded in scoring consecutive points, and KCC went ahead by more than 10 points at 56-45, and at one point, the lead widened to 25 points, continuing the atmosphere of a landslide victory.
The game ended with a landslide victory, to the extent that KCC did not request a timeout even once in the second half.
In KCC, playoff MVP Heo Woong played well with 21 points and Laguna 20 points.