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2014–15 Dutch Basketball League

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Season
  
2014–15

Teams
  
9

Runners-up
  
Donar

Games played
  
32

2014–15 Dutch Basketball League

Champions
  
SPM Shoeters Den Bosch16th title

Semifinalists
  
ZZ LeidenLandstede Zwolle

The 2014–15 Dutch Basketball League season will be the 55th season of the Dutch Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. The defending champion was Donar from Groningen.

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The league started the season with nine teams, after Matrixx Magixx didn't enter. In December the number of teams was reduced to eight, after Den Helder Kings went bankrupt.

Top seeded SPM Shoeters won the league, by beating Donar 4–1 in the Finals.

Teams

Before the season Magixx announced it would withdraw from the DBL, because they couldn't get the amount of money that was required together. Thereby the league would start with nine teams. In December, Den Helder Kings left as well.

Playoffs

Because the number of teams in the DBL decreased to 9, a new Playoff format was chosen. After the seeds 3 till 6 played a best-of-three series in the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and finals would be played in a best-of-seven system.

Notable occurrences

  • On May 29, 2014 Zorg en Zekerheid extended its sponsorship contract with three more years.
  • On May 13, 2014 it was announced ZZ Leiden and Toon van Helfteren – who won six trophies with the club – would part ways. On May 30, the Belgian Eddy Casteels coach was hired as new head coach.
  • On June 6, 2014 Matrixx Magixx announced the club was close to bankruptcy because they had trouble finding a new main sponsor.
    • On July 21, 2014, Magixx announced it would withdraw its participation for this season, after they couldn't reach a high enough budget.
  • On September 29, 2014, the first game ever of the Dutch Talent League (DTL) was played. This league was the newly formed development league of the DBL, mainly made for players under age 25.
  • On August 9, 2014, BC Apollo announced that it would play in the DBL after working a long time to reach the budget standard.
  • On August 16, 2014, Groningen announced it would be named Donar again.
  • On August 29, 2014, the DBL announced this season a new Playoffs system would be used. Just 6 teams would qualify this season, compared to 8 last year.
  • On December 2, 2014, Den Helder Kings was declared bankrupt.

    • References

    2014–15 Dutch Basketball League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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