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2016–17 NBL season

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Sport
  
Basketball

Start date
  
October 2016

Top seed
  
Adelaide 36ers

Number of teams
  
8

League
  
National Basketball League

Duration
  
October 2016–February 2017

TV partner(s)
  
Fox Sports (Australia) SBS (Australia) Sky Sport (New Zealand) NBL TV (online)

Season MVP
  
Jerome Randle (Adelaide 36ers)

The 2016–17 NBL season is the 39th season of the National Basketball League since its establishment in 1979. A total of eight teams contest the league. The regular season will be played between October 2016 and February 2017, followed by a post-season featuring the top four in late February and March 2017.

Contents

During the off-season Townsville Crocodiles folded with Brisbane Bullets returning.

Australian broadcast rights to the season are held by Fox Sports, in the second year of a five-year deal, with one game per week simulcast on SBS. In New Zealand, Sky Sport are the official league broadcaster.

2016 Australian Basketball Challenge

A pre-season tournament featuring all eight teams and two invited CBA teams was held on 23–26 September 2016 at Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane. The winner will receive the fourth annual Loggins-Bruton Cup.

The Illawarra Hawks are the pre-season champions.

Ladder progression

  • Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top four.
  • Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
  • Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

    • Finals Series

    The 2016–17 National Basketball League Finals will be played in late February and March 2017, consisting of two best-of-three semi-final series and the best-of-five Grand Final series. In the semi-finals, the higher seed hosts the first and third games. In the Grand Final, the higher seed hosts the first, third and fifth games.

    Playoff Seedings

    1. Adelaide 36ers
    2. Cairns Taipans
    3. Perth Wildcats
    4. Illawarra Hawks

    The NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the results in games played between the teams will determine order of seeding.

    Grand Final

    The Grand Final series will tip-off on February 26, concluding on or before March 12.

    * Games 4 and 5 only if required.

    Pre-season

  • Most Valuable Player (Ray Borner Medal): Cameron Gliddon, Cairns Taipans

    • Season

  • Most Valuable Player (Andrew Gaze Trophy): Jerome Randle, Adelaide 36ers
  • Rookie of the Year: Anthony Drmic, Adelaide 36ers
  • Best Defensive Player: Torrey Craig, Brisbane Bullets
  • Best Sixth Man: Rotnei Clarke, Illawarra Hawks
  • Most Improved Player: Nathan Sobey, Adelaide 36ers
  • Coach of the Year (Lindsay Gaze Trophy): Joey Wright, Adelaide 36ers
  • Referee of the Year: Vaughan Mayberry
  • All-NBL First Team:
  • Jerome Randle – Adelaide 36ers
  • Casper Ware – Melbourne United
  • Casey Prather – Perth Wildcats
  • Daniel Johnson – Adelaide 36ers
  • Andrew Ogilvy – Illawarra Hawks
  • All-NBL Second Team:
  • Kevin Lisch – Sydney Kings
  • Nathan Sobey – Adelaide 36ers
  • Brad Newley – Sydney Kings
  • Torrey Craig – Brisbane Bullets
  • Daniel Kickert – Brisbane Bullets

    • Finals

  • Grand Final Series MVP (Larry Sengstock Medal): TBA

    • References

    2016–17 NBL season Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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