Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 1923 |
President | Raimonds Vējonis |
Country | Latvia |
Headquarters | Riga |
Continent | FIBA Europe |
Official website | basket.lv |
The Latvian Basketball Association (Latvian: Latvijas Basketbola Savienība), also known as LBS, is the national governing body of basketball in Latvia. It was founded in 1923 and was one of the FIBA Europe co-founders, but due to the Soviet and Nazi occupations, the federation disappeared from FIBA from 1940 to 1991. Its headquarters are located in Riga.[1]